Startup Village Kochi | India's first PPP Telecom Incubator Zone

[Malayaali]

HTML5 & Web Technologies workshop at Kochi on Nov 03

Bridge India, a Dutch owned IT services company, in association with Startup Village, is organising a one day workshop on ‘HTML5 and Upcoming Web Technologies’ on November 03, 2012 at Kochi. The event is being touted as a great opportunity for developers to learn from Shwetank Dixit, a Web Evangelist from Opera Software in India.

Shwetank is co-steering Opera’s ‘Open the Web’ Site Compatibility project, which involves working with the biggest web properties in the world and ensuring compatibility and advising better coding methodologies. He is also part of the W3C Mobile Web for Social Development Group. His interviews, thoughts and articles have been published in various publications like PCQuest, The Hindu, Times of India, .Net Magazine, DevOpera, Electronics4U and DeveloperFusion, among others. He is also involved in evangelism of Open web standards, particularly in South Asia and represents Opera Software in various events, seminars and conferences.

HTML5 - Clearing the hype and looking at the origins; Introduction to HTML5 web forms and new semantic elements; What’s new in CSS3?; Introduction to SVG and Canvas, Offline Storage; Advanced JS : Geolocation, Device Orientation, Webcam access and Extending the browser, are some of the sessions being planned for the day.

According to Wikipedia, HTML5 is a markup language for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web, and is a core technology of the Internet originally proposed by Opera Software. It is the fifth revision of the HTML standard created in 1990 and standardized as HTML4 as of 1997 and, as of October 2012, is still under development. Its core aims have been to improve the language with support for the latest multimedia while keeping it easily readable by humans and consistently understood by computers and devices (web browsers, parsers, etc.).

[zuperman]

I dont know how many of you know about the hundreds & thousands of startups in Bangalore that run in tiny little offices/studio apartments.
Kerala was very behind in that aspect till now.

I really feel Startup Village is the next best thing that could happen to Kerala after Technopark.

[Kochi Resident]

Kerala was far behind because our conservative society is not ready to take risks. Read in business manorama yesterday

Originally Posted by zuperman

I dont know how many of you know about the hundreds & thousands of startups in Bangalore that run in tiny little offices/studio apartments.
Kerala was very behind in that aspect till now.

I really feel Startup Village is the next best thing that could happen to Kerala after Technopark.

[Malayaali]

Conservative society and business has got nothing to do with each other. And people in Kerala aren't bad in business either. The only thing we lack is a industrial friendly environment.

[psanthosh]

not only in bangalore but also in chennai, hyd etc... kerala is really behind all these places for startup companies because kerala is not industry friendly...

Originally Posted by zuperman

I dont know how many of you know about the hundreds & thousands of startups in Bangalore that run in tiny little offices/studio apartments.
Kerala was very behind in that aspect till now.

I really feel Startup Village is the next best thing that could happen to Kerala after Technopark.

[Malayaali]

[Kochi Resident]

Great. Good things happening in Kochi

Originally Posted by Malayaali

[Malayaali]

Student team from Kerala wins BlackBerry JamHack

Kochi: A group of young technophiles from Kerala are flying to Bangkok next month for a global hackathon competition after claiming first prize in the BlackBerry JamHack held in Bangalore by telecom giant Research in Motion in association with technology incubator Startup Village. Jibin Jose, Anoop Nayak, Nithin George and Bijin Abraham make up the winning Qedge team.

The team which developed the prize winning ‘Story Board’ - an innovative application that provides a novel way of showcasing presentations using BlackBerry mobile phones. The quartet, representing Hangout India, will take part in the BlackBerry Jam Asia 2012 in Bangkok on November 29-30, competing against international teams in the Asia-Pacific Finals.

The JamHack at Bangalore involved 40-hours of non-stop coding, from 7 pm on October 12 to 12 noon on October 14, at the offices of Innoz Technologies. It featured teams from all over India, including 32 students from Kerala.

“We love hearing and telling stories. So we thought of creating an app which will convert a boring conventional presentation into a story-telling experience,” said Qedge’s Nithin George. “My team is proud to have created this product and to have survived 40-hours of coding. We dedicate our success to Startup Village and its CEO Sijo Kuruvila George for inspiring entrepreneurship in us.”

Startup’s CEO hoped the team’s win will encourage more students from college campuses to create and innovate. “It is wonderful to see college students thinking out of the box and taking on challenges like these. We are seeing the next generation of entrepreneurs at work here,” said Sijo.

Bangalore is among 10 cities in the Asia-Pacific region to host the BlackBerry JamHack. Besides advancing to the Asia Pacific Finals, winning teams in each city get BlackBerry devices and RIM’s consultancy to develop their apps further. Teams making it to the finals in Bangkok will be vying for a prize pot that includes cash award, a chance to be at the much-anticipated global launch of BlackBerry 10 and RIM’s support for marketing their apps.

[Prasanth_KCV]

http://keralaitnews.com/state-scan/k...ls-development

IBM collaborates with Startup Village for skills development

Kochi: IT major IBM and Kochi based Startup village has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to equip engineering students and young professionals with knowledge and skills which will better position them in today’s dynamic IT industry. The collaboration will also help them build business solutions that address the issues enterprise customers are facing in the Smarter Planet industries.

As a part of this MoU, IBM will help students at Startup village to attain industry-ready skills through its Career Education and Academic Initiative programme. Career Education courses are designed to develop the right skills and nurture basic competencies that are demanded by the industry. The courses offered include skills on Information Management using IBM DB2, Software Quality management, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Mobile Application Development using IBM Worklight, Embedded Systems development using IBM Rational Rhapsody and more.

Along with this, students will also undergo experiential learning programs through Career Education Projects and take part in The Great Mind Challenge (TGMC) contest, the largest technological contest certified by the Limca Book of Records. TGMC is an academic initiative that supports, guides, and challenges students to be industry ready and have hands on skills on software development.

With this collaboration IBM, by its Academic Initiative programme, will provide relevant IBM Software free of cost that will be used for training & enablement purposes for students & faculty members of various Engineering colleges in Kerala.

“We are pleased to partner with Startup Village in Kerala, under IBM’s Career Education, Academic Initiative and GEP Program. The aim is to provide for life-long learning, skills development, career and workforce training concurrently enabling young generations to create world-class products for the enterprise businesses”, says Karthik Padmanabhan, Country Manager - ISV & Developer Relations, IBM India.

Commenting on the collaboration with IBM, Sijo Kuruvilla George, CEO, Startup Village said, “We have found that there are lots of talented youngsters in our engineering colleges, but are left handicapped without the latest technology solutions. The IBM support will definitely ignite their innovative talent and thereby enhance the human capital which a prime mover in any eco-system. We are sure this would lead to a whole new culture of product-based thinking and catalyse innovations of the future”.

[e_arunsid]

Oracle to train Kerala engineering students

Kochi, Oct 30 ( IANS) Oracle India and Startup Village here have joined hands to train more than 30,000 students and 200 teachers in over 100 engineering colleges in Kerala in Java programming language, according to the state IT department.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to this effect will be signed on Nov 2 here.

Oracle will provide the curriculum, training of faculty and access to a secure online learning environment for students to develop programming and database design.

The Startup Village, located at Kinfra Hi-Tech Park, has been set up jointly by the National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB) and the Kerala government-run Technopark, in collaboration with MobME wireless.

[mohammedirshad06]

Entrepreneurial school to come up in Start-Up Village

KOCHI: Freeman Murray, an angel investor from the US, plans to set up a startup school for young entrepreneurs in collaboration with Startup Village. The school will be in the campus of the Kochi-based telecom incubator.

"The school would enroll 100 students initially for a six-month course, of which four months will be devoted to residential class at the Startup Village campus from which the brighter ones with better ideas and entrepreneurship skills would be selected for the final two month course," said Murray. Preference would be given to those with better communication skill with a good command over English which, he said, is essential to succeed in this sector.

"This is a real opportunity in India," Murray commented on the pro-entrepreneurship policy of the state government while talking to "The Startup School is a large-scale initiative to help young first time entrepreneurs in India launch successful Internet companies. It is going to be a full-time residential programme. It will also review online classes students can participate in to improve their startup skills," Murray told reporters in Kochi on Tuesday.

"It's a great time to start a technology company. The internet has made it possible for smart people everywhere to create products and earn money online," observed Murray, who had been working with startups for the past 15 years in India and the US. "I am setting up this programme in Kerala to help young people who are interested in technology and entrepreneurship to start technology companies," he added.

Murray had earlier run an incubation programme at IIM Ahmedabad and set up a large art and technology space called Jaaga.in. in Bengaluru. Since 2000, he has been an active angel investor for over 20 companies in the US and India.

Murray, who has worked with the original Java group at Sun Microsystems, founded his own technology company Kendara Inc, and sold it two years later to Excite@Home for $120 million.

[arunjith]

StartupVillage for Expansion

Startup Village, India’s first telecom incubator that has already grown big with swelling number of student entrepreneurs is all set to spread its wings by the space too. Inching further close to its ambitious target of having a one lakh sq. ft. campus by 2014 in its search for billion-dollar ventures from campuses, Startup Village today got an additional space of 10,000 sq. ft.

http://keralaitnews.com/state-scan/k...llage-at-kochi

[mohdshanil]

Originally Posted by arunjith

StartupVillage for Expansion

Startup Village, India’s first telecom incubator that has already grown big with swelling number of student entrepreneurs is all set to spread its wings by the space too. Inching further close to its ambitious target of having a one lakh sq. ft. campus by 2014 in its search for billion-dollar ventures from campuses, Startup Village today got an additional space of 10,000 sq. ft.

http://keralaitnews.com/state-scan/k...llage-at-kochi

[zuperman]

http://www.manoramaonline.com/cgi-bi...RIAL&BV_ID=@@@

Startup village seems like one of the best things to have happened to Kochi...
Actually I dont remember anything covered in news when this was planned or when the construction was going on...
Anyone know when was this planned or whose idea it was and when was the construction started?

[KMC]

Indeed this is one of the best thing to happen in kochi...
Rather than wasting money on smart city...we shud scale up this to create more self going people...
Great going....

[Asskicker]

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/...cle4105041.ece

Chief Minister opens space of 10,000 sq ft for the telecom incubator

Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Friday offered all possible support to the fledgling Startup Village at Kinfra Park in Kalamassery and said the government attached top priority to resolving the issues of budding companies in the village, which is the first telecom incubator in the country.

Mr. Chandy, who threw open an additional space of 10,000 sq ft to the expanding incubator that fosters student entrepreneurship, said the government would deliver on the promise of granting one-lakh sq ft space to the village by 2014 in a staggered fashion. The government planned to raise the working space in Startup Village to 25,000 sq ft by May 12 next year and finish work on the remaining 75,000 sq ft by January 12, 2014, he said.

Innovation zones

The new premises will house five different innovation zones by as many companies, including giants like Blackberry, IBM, Oracle and KPMG.

Commending the incubator for imbibing the spirit of global investor meet ‘Emerging Kerala’, Mr. Chandy said with its youth becoming job creators, the State was poised to emerge from within.

He said the roadmap for Startup Village received more clarity with ‘Emerging Kerala’, as it was at the insistence of the team behind the incubator that the State brought in the landmark ‘Student Entrepreneurship Policy’.

Setting a deadline of 10 days for the Village to present before the government the problems faced by individual start-up units, Mr. Chandy said the government would examine these issues and despatch a team of officials to the village within 30 days to address them. Further, a select team of five people from the village would be sent to Silicon Valley to learn more about its ecosystem for nurturing entrepreneurship.

Sanjay Vijayakumar, chairman of the incubator, gave an outline of the growth and momentum achieved by the village during its first six months. Quoting its chief mentor Kris Gopalakrishnan, he said that it aimed at carving out at least one billion dollar company from Kerala. “As of now, we have a total of 359 applicants, a chunk of whom will soon become incubated companies at the village,” he said.

Hibi Eden, MLA, who attended Friday’s event, termed the Student Entrepreneurship Policy a revolutionary decision and said the freedom granted by the government to the youth would augur well for the State’s IT growth in future. “That’s the biggest investment made by the government,” he noted.

The village already housed 68 incubated firms in an area of 5,000 sq ft.

The new four-floor building leased from Kinfra could facilitate operation of at least 300 companies, Startup Village CEO Sijo Geroge Kuruvila informed in a media note.

Later, Startup Village, in a press release said that Mr. Chandy informed them of the government’s decision to grant the venture 25 cents of land at Kinfra Park for in view of the village’s future development needs.

Keywords: Startup Village, telecom incubator, Kinfra Park, Emerging Kerala

[passionfruit12]

Startup Village team will tour Silicon Valley: Chandy

A five-member team will be selected from Startup Village and sent to Silicon Valley in the US to get a first hand knowledge about start up incubators, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has said. He was speaking after inaugurating the 10,000 sq ft building of Startup Village at Kinfra Park, Kalamassery on Friday.

The startup is modelled on the technology incubators in the Silicon Valley. The government would give utmost priority to the requirements of the Village as the concept would turn job seekers into job creators.

The success of the venture is a need of the state as it would benefit the coming generation. The government has launched the Student Entrepreneurship Scheme which guarantees 20 per cent attendance and four per cent grace mark for student entrepreneurs in universities, colleges and polytechnics in the state.

The Chief Minister switched on the high speed internet connectivity of one GBPS at the new building. It is for the first time that one GBPS internet connectivity is being made available anywhere in India, according to Village sources.

Already the startup firms have incubated in 5,000 sqft space. The space would be extended to 25,000 sq ft by May next year and the remaining 75,000 sq ft of the 1 lakh sqft promised would also be made available, Chandy said. He also offered 25 cents of land for the Startup Village to meet its future needs.

The six innovation zones in the new building will house many companies, including Blackberry, IBM, Oracle and KPMG. Another six firms can set up innovation zones, said Startup Village CEO Sijo Kuruvila and chairman Sanjay Vijayakumar.

Hibi Eden MLA, Technopark CEO Girish Babu, Infopark CEO Baju George and Kinfra Park MD Ramnath were also present.

http://newindianexpress.com/states/k...cle1342731.ece

[Malayaali]

Kerala CM inaugurates 10,000-sq ft premises of Startup Village

Kochi: Startup Village, India’s first telecom incubator that has already grown big with swelling number of student entrepreneurs, is all set to spread its wings by the space too.

Inching further close to its ambitious target of having a one-lakh-sq-ft campus by 2014 in its search for billion-dollar ventures from campuses, Startup Village on Friday got an additional space of 10,000 sq ft.

Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy ,who formally opened the new building for the Startup Village at the KINFRA Hi-Tech Park near here, said the Government was giving greater importance to the demands and requirements of the Startup village in view of the fact that this technology hub would be a major centre providing larger employment opportunities. He also offered 25 cents of land for the Startup village at the Kinfra park to meet its future needs. After listening to the needs and requirements from the student entrepreneurs, he assured them that the government would send a five member student team from Startup Village to Silicon Valley as part of gaining global exposure to them.

Later, he switched on the high speed internet connectivity of one GBPS at the new 10,000 sq.ft. building allotted to Startup Village. This the first time that one GBPS internet connectivity is being made available anywhere in India, it was announced at the function. To speedup activities at the startup village, Mr Chandy asked its management to submit a detailed report on its immediate needs and requirements within 10 days based on which a high level governmental team would visit the startup village to sort out its problems, adding that the needs of Startup village is actually of the state itself and therefore it would given highest priority, he added.

The Chief Minister was accompanied by Mr Hibi Eden, MLA, who also spoke of the high priority the government was extending to the technology hub. Senior executives, including Technopark CEO Mr Girish Babu, Inforpark CEO Baju George and KINFRA MD, Mr Ramnath, among others were also present on the occasion.

Startup village which began functioning in April this year as a joint initiative between the Department of Science and Technology under the Government of India, Technopark Trivandrum and MobME Wireless.

Its status as the country’s first public-private partnership model technology business incubator had got further boost a month ago when the state government launched a much-awaited Student Entrepreneurship Scheme.

The scheme, which guarantees 20 per cent attendance and four per cent grace mark for student entrepreneurs in universities, colleges and polytechnics in the state, has lent momentum to the filing of applications with the Startup Village, according to Mr. Sanjay Vijayakumar, Chairman of the Startup Village which has Infosys Co-Founder Kris Gopalakrishnan as the Chief Mentor.

“As of now, we have a total of 359 applicants, a chunk of whom will soon become incubated companies at the Village,” revealed Mr. Vijayakumar, who is also CEO of MobME, a mobile internet company, also based in Kochi.

The new building will house six different innovation zones by as many companies, including giants like Blackberry, IBM, Oracle and KPMG who have already partnered with Startup Village, he said. “Another six firms will be able to set up innovation zones with this additional space. It will give further boost to entrepreneurs who build start-ups on top of these technologies,” he added.

Mr Sijo George Kuruvila, Chief Executive Officer of Startup Village, informed that the campus already housed 68 incubated firms in an area of 5,000 sq ft, and that the new four-floor building, leased out by KINFRA (Kerala Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation), can accommodate the operation of “250 to 300” companies.

“The interiors have been fully furnished. We did it in a month’s time,” he said. “The new companies can move in at the earliest. The premises will be fully functional within a week.”

Going by the pending applications, the space “is still insufficient”, Mr. Kuruvila said. “However, we believe that the basic foundation has now been laid.”

Its performance in the next five years will be crucial for the Startup Village, which aims to incubate 1,000 product start-ups by the turn of 2020. “We have to sustain the present positive trend; we are doing it. We are sure we can keep the word,” added the CEO, when pointed out that the state government’s schedule was to raise the working space in Startup Village to 25,000 sq ft by May 12 next year, and finish work on the remaining 75,000 sq ft by January 12, 2014.

The Student Entrepreneurship Scheme, about which the Chief Minister first revealed at the September 12-14 Emerging Kerala global investors’ meet in Kochi, has led to an encouraging spurt in the inflow of applications at the Startup Village, he added.

[Malayaali]

American major Nuance to setup Innovation Zone in Startup Village

Muthoot Papachan group & Choice group has set up their innovation zones in the new building.

കൊച്ചി സ്റ്റാർട്അപ് വില്ലേജിലേക്ക് യുഎസ് കമ്പനി ന്യുവാൻസ്

കൊച്ചി: പൊതു സ്വകാര്യ പങ്കാളിത്തത്തോടെയുള്ള ഇന്ത്യയിലെ ആദ്യ ടെലികോം ഇൻകുബേറ്റർ 'സ്റ്റാർട്അപ് വില്ലേജിൽ ഇന്നവേഷൻ സോൺ ആരംഭിക്കാൻ അമേരിക്കൻ കമ്പനി ന്യുവാൻസ് എത്തുന്നു.

സംരംഭം 50 ദിവസത്തിനുള്ളിൽ ആരംഭിക്കാനാണു വില്ലേജ് അധികൃതർ ആലോചിക്കുന്നത്. ഇതു സംബന്ധിച്ചുള്ള ചർച്ചകൾ എല്ലാം പൂർത്തിയായതായി ചെയർമാൻ സഞ്ജയ് വിജയകുമാർ പറഞ്ഞു.

ഫോണുകളിലും ആപ്ളിക്കേഷനുകളിലും ഉപഭോക്താവിന്റെ ശബ്ദം തിരിച്ചറിയാനുള്ള വോയിസ് റെക്കഗ്നിഷൻ സോഫ്റ്റ്വെയറുകൾ നിർമിക്കുന്ന ലോകത്തെ പ്രധാന കമ്പനികളിലൊന്നാണ് ന്യൂവാൻസ്. പ്രതിവർഷം 112 കോടി ഡോളർ വിറ്റുവരവുള്ള ന്യൂവാൻസിന്റെ വരവ് പ്രതീക്ഷയോടെയാണു സ്റ്റാർട്അപ് അധികൃതർ കാണുന്നത്.

ഏതാനും മാസങ്ങൾക്കുള്ളിൽ ലോകത്തെ നാലു പ്രമുഖ കമ്പനികൾ കൂടി സ്റ്റാർട്അപ് വില്ലേജിൽ എത്തിയേക്കും. ഇതു സംബന്ധിച്ച് അധികൃതരും കമ്പനികളുമായി ചർച്ചകൾ തുടരുകയാണ്.

സ്റ്റാർട്അപ് വില്ലേജിൽ നിലവിൽ ഇന്നവേഷൻ സോണുള്ള ബ്ളാക്ക്ബെറിയുടെ നേതൃത്വത്തിൽ ബാങ്കോക്കിൽ നടക്കുന്ന മെഗാ ഹാക്കത്തണിൽ വില്ലേജിലെ ഇൻകുബേറ്റഡ് കമ്പനികളിൽ നിന്നുള്ള അംഗങ്ങൾ പങ്കെടുക്കുന്നുണ്ട്.

സ്റ്റാർട്അപ് വില്ലേജ് പുതുതായി ആരംഭിച്ച കെട്ടിടത്തിൽ സജ്ജീകരിച്ചിട്ടുള്ള മുത്തൂറ്റ് പാപ്പച്ചൻ ഗ്രൂപ്പിന്റെ ഇന്നവേഷൻ സോണും ചോയ്സ് ഗ്രൂപ്പിന്റെ ഇന്നവേഷൻ സ്കൂളും ഉടൻ പ്രവർത്തനം ആരംഭിക്കുമെന്നും അധികൃതർ പറഞ്ഞു.

[psanthosh]

ഇരുമ്പു റാക്കുകളില്* കൊച്ചിയില്* കെട്ടിടമുയരുന്നു


കൊച്ചി: വീടുകളില്* പുസ്തകഷെല്*ഫായും പാത്രങ്ങള്* അടുക്കിവയ്ക്കാനുള്ള ഇടമായും ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്ന ഇരുമ്പുറാക്കുകള്* ഉപയോഗിച്ച് കെട്ടിടം ഉയരുന്നു. വിദേശത്തല്ല, കൊച്ചിയിലാണ് ഈ കെട്ടിടം.

സ്റ്റാര്*ട്ട് അപ്പ് വില്ലേജുകളുടെ തലതൊട്ടപ്പനായ ഫ്രീമാന്* മുറെയാണ് കെട്ടിടത്തിന്റെ ശില്പി. കളമശ്ശേരി കിന്*ഫ്ര ഹൈടെക്ക് പാര്*ക്കില്* സ്റ്റാര്*ട്ട് അപ്പ് വില്ലേജിനായി ലഭിച്ച സ്ഥലത്ത് ഉയരുന്ന സ്റ്റാര്*ട്ട് അപ്പ് സ്*കൂള്* പൂര്*ണമായും ഇത്തരം റാക്കുകളിലാകും. അടുത്തയാഴ്ച നിര്*മാണം തുടങ്ങും. ഒരുമാസം കൊണ്ട് പൂര്*ത്തിയാക്കുകയാണ് ലക്ഷ്യം. കേരളത്തിലാദ്യമായാണ് ഇത്തരമൊരു കെട്ടിടം വരുന്നത്.
10000സ്*ക്വയര്*ഫീറ്റിനും 12000സ്*ക്വയര്*ഫീറ്റിനുമിടയിലായിരിക്കും കെട്ടിടത്തിന്റെ വിസ്തീര്*ണം. ക്ലാസ്സ്മുറികള്*, ലാബ്, കഫറ്റേരിയ, ഡോര്*മിറ്ററി എന്നിവ ഉണ്ടാകും. 15 ലക്ഷമാണ് ചെലവ് കണക്കാക്കുന്നത്. നാലുനിലകളാകും സ്റ്റാര്*ട്ട് അപ്പ് സ്*കൂളിനുണ്ടാകുക. ഓരോന്നിനും എട്ടടിയാണ് ഉയരം. മൂന്നടിനീളമുള്ള കോണ്*ക്രീറ്റ് സ്ലാബുകളിലാണ് അടിത്തറ. തറയും മേല്*ക്കൂരയും അലൂമിനിയവും പ്ലൈവുഡും ഉപയോഗിച്ചാണ് നിര്*മിക്കുന്നത്. ലോഹം കൊണ്ടോ ചെളികൊണ്ടോ ആയിരിക്കും ഭിത്തികള്*.

വിവരസാങ്കേതികതയുടെ താഴ്*വരയായ സിലിക്കണ്*വാലിയില്*നിന്നുള്ള ഫ്രീമാന്* മുറെ ഇരുമ്പുറാക്കുകളില്* വിസ്മയക്കൂടാരങ്ങള്* ഉയര്*ത്തുന്നത് ആദ്യമായല്ല. ബാംഗ്ലൂരിലെ ജാഗ എന്ന കലാകേന്ദ്രത്തില്* റാക് ട്രിക്കാണ് മുറെ പ്രയോഗിച്ചത്. ലോകമെങ്ങുമുള്ള കലാകാരന്മാര്*ക്ക് ഒത്തുകൂടാനൊരിടം എന്ന നിലയ്ക്കാണ് ജാഗ രൂപകല്പന ചെയ്തത്. വിദേശത്ത് റാക്കുകള്* ഉപയോഗിച്ച് കെട്ടിടനിര്*മാണം പതിവാണ്.

റാക്കുകളുപയോഗിച്ചുള്ള കെട്ടിടനിര്*മാണം തന്റെ ആശയമല്ലെന്ന് മുറെ പറയുന്നു. ഒരേസമയം പരസ്ഥിതിക്കിണങ്ങുന്നതും ചെലവുകുറഞ്ഞതുമായ പകരം സംവിധാനങ്ങള്* കെട്ടിട നിര്*മാണത്തിനായി കണ്ടെത്തുകയെന്നതാണ് മുറേയുടെ ആത്യന്തിക ലക്ഷ്യം.

ഫ്രീമാന്* മുറെ; ഇന്*റര്*നെറ്റ് സങ്കേതങ്ങളുടെയും ശില്പി

കൊച്ചി: റാക്കുകളില്* കെട്ടിടം പണിതു തുടങ്ങും മുമ്പേ തന്നെ ഫ്രീമാന്* മുറെ ലോകത്തിന് പരിചിതനായിരുന്നു. അതിനൂതനമായ ഇന്*റര്*നെറ്റ് സങ്കേതങ്ങള്* വികസിപ്പിക്കുന്നതിലൂടെയാണ് മുറെ ലോകശ്രദ്ധ നേടിയത്. ഈ അമേരിക്കന്* സംരംഭകനെ 1995 ല്* സണ്* മൈക്രോ സിസ്റ്റം എന്ന ആഗോള സാങ്കേതിക കമ്പനിയിലെത്തുന്നതോടെയാണ് ലോകമറിഞ്ഞു തുടങ്ങിയത്.

സണ്ണില്* ജാവാ സെര്*വര്* പ്രൊജക്ടുമായി പ്രവര്*ത്തിച്ച ഫ്രീമാന്* 1999 ല്* കേന്ദാര ഡോട്ട് കോം എന്ന വെബ്*സൈറ്റ് സ്ഥാപിച്ചു. ബ്രൗസ് ചെയ്ത് പേജുകളെക്കുറിച്ച് ഉപയോക്താക്കള്*ക്ക് ചര്*ച്ചകള്* വരെ സാധ്യമായിരുന്ന സൈറ്റായിരുന്നു ഇത്. ഇന്*റര്*നെറ്റ് സാങ്കേതികതയോടുള്ള അടങ്ങാത്ത സ്*നേഹം അദ്ദേഹത്തെ ലോസ്അഞ്ചലീസിലെത്തിച്ചു.

2005 ല്* ഇന്ത്യന്* സംസ്*കാരത്തില്* അകൃഷ്ടനായ അദ്ദേഹം ബംഗ്ലൂരിലെത്തി. അങ്ങനെയാണ് ബാംഗ്ലൂരില്* ഇന്ത്യക്കാരിയായ അര്*ച്ചന പ്രസാദിനൊപ്പം ജാഗാ ഡോട്ട് ഇന്* എന്ന സംരംഭത്തില്* സഹസ്ഥാപകനാവുന്നത്. ഇന്ത്യയിലെ വിവിധ സംസ്ഥാനങ്ങളെ കുറിച്ച് പഠിച്ച ശേഷമാണ് കേരളത്തിലെ നിക്ഷേപ സാധ്യതയെക്കുറിച്ച് മുറെ തിരിച്ചറിയുന്നത്. സംരംഭകത്വത്തില്* കേരളത്തിനുള്ള ക്ഷമത തിരിച്ചറിഞ്ഞ അദ്ദേഹം സ്റ്റാര്*ട്ട് അപ്പ് സ്*കൂള്* എന്ന പദ്ധതി കൊച്ചിയിലെ സ്റ്റാര്*ട്ട് അപ്പ് വില്ലേജിന്റെ സഹായത്തോടെ ആവിഷ്*കരിക്കാനൊരുങ്ങുകയാണ്.http://www.mathrubhumi.com/story.php?id=318016