GODCHA VC Pitch

GODCHA is an idea stage. Idea is like dream, can we dream of an idea or dream our ideas. We might as well keep dreaming.

But GODCHA is not just a dream, since conception in July 2007, GODCHA under Malaysian limited enterprising company Geo Sense Sdn. Bhd. have been embarking in the serious prototype development of Web GIS service portal.

The project is progressing since July 2007 until now, we have work in progress snapshot at GODCHA alpha site and project management site at http://geosense.projectpath.com/ you need to be the team member to login.

Geo Sense has officially 5 team members, web open GIS developer, system architec and web designer. Practically we have 2 full time team members and 3 others are supporting part timely. I am GODCHA fulltime evengelist. GODCHA does not have physical office, we meet day and night in our virtual office http://geosense.projectpath.com/. Until Oct 2007, GODCHA has more than 50 physical highly connected offices through out Malaysia and South East Asia our office addresses are link here.

Our current funding enough for GODCHA to stay sober until Feb. 2008. GODCHA alpha site will be ready for human comprehension by Nov 2007 as well as the begining GODCHA road show. The purpose of the road show is to meet as many potential GODCHA users as possible and to impress them on how GODCHA can solve their problems and along the ways finding angle that believe in our project and willing to take us beyond Feb. 2008.

Since early 2006, I have been meeting and discussing GODCHA to many different backgrounds, from the GIS, mapping industries, Government officer, corporate executive, professor, engineer, business owners, students etc. I can group them into two categories, a technical users and non-technical users. Technical users, are mainly GIS, cartographer or mapping experts, professors, officer and researcher from JUPEN (Malaysian Mapping Dept.), MACRES researchers, GIS engineers and programmers. Most of them have cynical opinions about GODCHA and believe that our Malaysian or even Asian organizational users are not ready for open GIS, let alone Geo Wiki and it only happen on Google Maps and virtual earth. Most of the discussion will end up with serious issues on accuracy, standard protocol, reliability and security concerns. The GIS technical users with less or no IT services background are much harder to convince, this is fair. For years, they are responsible in building data silos in our public and private offices and such a way never been presented properly for non technical workers at the top levels to comprehend and making better decisions. Unfortunately Government spents million to such silos but never get enough benefits without the concern of the GIS key keepers.

Now we can see smart non GIS technical users starting to access Google Map from their laptop and visually pin pointing concerned location. There are more data or content layers lock up in the silos and will be much powerful if only it is make available.

GODCHA has a simple vision, to provide the most comprehensive South East Asia location information services online , materially speaking “an hotmail to GIS”.

GODCHA is developing a platform for corporation and Government to make geo related data available online and to collaborate with other decision support system. GODCHA is addressing multi million duplicating investment made in many conventional GIS implementation. GODCHA is providing fresh collaborative geo contents online with all basic tools for typical non-GIS users to benefits. GODCHA is stressing on simplicity, collaboration and intelligence.