Friday, October 26, 2007

Company Background

Geo Sense Sdn. Bhd. was incorporated on 21 May 2007. with the objective to become the successful company in providing geographical (geo) related solution technology services. GSSB is developing and offering Geographical Information System (GIS) in form of web services; enable clients to use enterprise GIS software capability on Internet or GIS on demand. GIS on Demand Community Holistic Application short as GODCHA is the project development code to signify the important concept of Geo Wiki or GIS community driven contents development. SSSB believes that collaborative efforts on maintaining geo related data will reduce cost of ownership and benefits the whole user communities. GODCHA has a simple vision, to provide the most comprehensive South East Asia location information services online, materially speaking “an hotmail to GIS”.

The concept of web GIS on demand was approved for MDeC Pre Seed funding grant reference TPF 2-4019/2007 and since July 2007, GSSB development team is in progressively developing showcase or alpha GODCHA portal services. GODCHA is fully developed using open source and open GIS platform. GODCHA showcases the combination of GIS and web development technologies in bringing geo information for much better meaning to especially non technical users. GODCHA is a subscription business model and is mainly targeting organizational related customers especially Governments. GSSB is seeking RM5mil seed capital investments in order enable GODCHA to provide sizable geo related contents and enough features to attract pilot subscribers. The whole Malaysian nationwide geo contents data is cost at RM21mill which will be required in venture capital investment stage.

Geo Sense has five (5) team members, web open GIS developer, system architect and web designer. Ismail Ibrahim and Kegan are both GSSB founding members and fulltime GODCHA evangelists.

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