There are some 30 million young voting age citizens of India on Orkut and other social networking sites. Linkedin/MySpace and even Facebook are marginal blips in the popular Indian Internet scene. Compared to fan groups of popular music directors and cricketers the indian political groups on orkut happen to really tiny and community engagement levels are really low or discussions do not have much depth. Most of the young citizens from educated classes either do not vote at all( most haven't even registered themselves as voters) or have pitifully low attention span for politics.
So is there a huge audience for such a site ? Sure there is a possible audience of 30-40 million young voters.
Is it possible to sell a political platform to existing popular political parties ? Political parties in India haven't been known to pay for any technology except for un-solicited SMS'es and un-solicited voice spam. From my personal experience, some of the party organizations can be really corrupt with each decision maker marking up price of your services at next level until it reaches a political party's 'high command'. So you can't sell the services or give them for free with an agreement to monetize it on their behalf very easily. The existing political parties are all too corrupt for their own good.
Can emerging educated class parties/groups in India buy into it? Most of these parties are from people with IT background or friends in IT. Most haven't gone beyond rudimentary shared hosting sites and haven't created enough engagement to need to scale up their platforms as yet.
changeindia.in
jago.in
lok-paritran.org
So according to me the marketplace for political platforms doesn't exist today. You can't really offer say a USD100/mo(+usage) hosted social web political platform to rich politicians who would buy it online. Internet using politicians do not yet exist in India, the cost of making such sales to dinosaurs is simply too high as of today.
Whether the delimitation of constituencies in favor of urban areas is going to change this in a significant way is still to be played out in next 2 general elections over next 6 years or so,
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