Coding for World's First Open-Source City

We are coding software for Auroville, the world's first open-source city for 50,000 volunteers - prototyping an ideal society.

What we do?

Areas of our work

Talam works on the following broad areas of work. Scroll down to see details of each area in detail.

Economy

Enable Auroville with modern technologies to realise higher goals of creating a new kind of economy while providing efficient, transparent and accountable systems for the present day reality where money plays a vital role.

Management

Transparent and efficient management systems for the community to work efficiently towards the Dream.

Communication

Communication tools to effectively share information both within the community and to the world at large.

Education

Develop online platforms enabling sharing of knowledge between Auroville and the larger world.

IT Infrastructure

Software and hardware infrastructure for Auroville apps

Sustainability

Sustainability in Food. Water. Shelter.

Research & Innovation

Going beyond what is comfortable and venturing into the unknown

Economy

Enable Auroville with modern technologies to realise higher goals of creating a new kind of economy while providing efficient, transparent and accountable systems for the present day reality where money plays a vital role.

Present reality and the future potential are both equally important. Auroville needs research and development to invent the new model of economy that aligns with the Dream of Auroville. At the same time, we need Fintech and Regtech solutions to make our current day internal and external financial transactions cashless, easy, efficient, transparent and accountable using modern technology in adherence to both the community guidelines and the government regulations.

 Donation Gateway

A digital gateway for Auroville entities to receive Indian and international donations into the Auroville Unity Fund. The system offers real time automated reporting of the donations with a dashboard to track donations received.

 Talam Pay

A digital payment system for Auroville entities to receive payments for their goods and services through Auroville Financial Service, Indian or international banks. Payments come to Auroville Maintenance Fund and from there to the FS account of the entity. The Auroville entities do not require a bank account to use this service. The system offers real time automated reporting of the donations with a dashboard to track payments received.

Management

Transparent and efficient management systems for the community to work efficiently towards the Dream.

Transparent and efficient management systems for the community to work efficiently towards the Dream.

 Newcomer Application Management System

An online system for the Entry Service to manage the Newcomer Application Process.

 Residents Service Data Management System

An online system for the Resident Service to manage the residents' data.

 House Transfer Management System

An online system for the Housing Service to manage the transfer of available houses.

 Matrimandir Booking System

An online system for the Matrimandir team to manage the visitors who want to book their visits to the inner chamber.

 Transport Booking

An online system to book from different transportation service providers in Auroville.

 Visitors Parking Management System

An online system for the Visitors Centre to manage the vehicle parking of the visitors and related payments and processes.

Communication

Communication tools to effectively share information both within the community and to the world at large.

Communication is key for collaboration. Auroville needs better collaboration within, with our bioregion and with the larger world. We need more people who are aligned to our vision to join the community or collaborate with Auroville from wherever they are. All these begins with communication.

 Events Calendar

Online events calendar system.

 Cocreate

Ecosystem for Creators, Contributors & Patrons for Cocreating Auroville

 Directory

The telephone and email directory of Auroville.

 Bazaar

A platform to exchange goods and services.

 Aurostat

Providing statistical data on Auroville

 Comment Server

A system to provide discussion feature across multiple applications.

 Auronet

Auroville's intranet portal.

 Auroville.org

The main public website of Auroville.

 Proposals

Enable people to propose new ideas and get support from the community.

 Art for Land

Artforland.in sells art work to fund raise for land purchase for Auroville. Talam develops and maintains the tech platform for the Art For Land team.

 Taxi Sharing

A platform to enable share taxi rides.

Education

Develop online platforms enabling sharing of knowledge between Auroville and the larger world.

Auroville is an institution of Higher Education under the Ministry of Education and we see Auroville as a new type of University. Online education is the emerging future of the world and we want to enable Auroville in this direction.
In collaboration with Auroville Campus Initiative we have the following projects.

 Youth Capacity Building in IT

Talam provides hands-on training for Auroville/Bioregion Youth who are interested in contributing to Auroville's growth in the IT sector.

 Auroville Campus Platform

An online platform to connect learners coming to Auroville with the learning opportunities and mentors.

 Integral Education Portal

An online system to manage Integral Education Newsletter and its mailing list subscribers.

 Integral Education Wiki

A wiki for collating and sharing the foundational knowledge from the Mother and Sri Aurobindo on Integral Education.

 Telos

An online system providing consciousness mapping tools based on Telos Model.

IT Infrastructure

Software and hardware infrastructure for Auroville apps

Talam develops or uses several other open source software and hardware providing features shared by applications built for Auroville.

 Backup service

Data backup on the cloud

 Checkbot

Application monitoring and reporting tool

 Plausible

Privacy aware user analytics

 Kubernetes

Deployment infrastructure for Auroville apps

 OAuth2 Server

Common login system using OAuth2 server protocol used by multiple services within Auroville.

 Cetana

IoT Platform for Auroville

Sustainability

Sustainability in Food. Water. Shelter.

Research and development in tech solutions towards sustainable living.

 Borewell Water Level Monitoring System

An online system for CSR Water Team to automatically track water levels across borewells using IoT Lorawan technology.

Research & Innovation

Going beyond what is comfortable and venturing into the unknown

A range of tech-enabled products that use cutting edge technology to provide solutions to the problems we face or simply provide an opportunity to stretch and expand our capacity.

 Heliostat

New models of Heliostat to be used at Matrimandir using latest open source hardware and software to channel the sunlight into the Matrimandir's Chamber.

 EnvBot

Environment Monitoring system - under research and development.

 Fambot

Farming automation system - under research and development.