WHEN COOKIES TELL STORIES: insights for opencity from google analytics
Three months ago, Oorvani Foundation and CivicDataLab embarked on a collaborative journey to redesign OpenCity, an urban data portal visited by over 50,000 unique users every month. We set out to learn about our users, their experiences on the platform and their dreams for the future of this city based open data hub. An important […]
The Nalanda Project: Content Creation, Distribution and Management System
The Nalanda Project is an in-class technology intervention that empowers students to take charge of their learning and allows teachers to efficiently deliver classroom instruction. Nalanda is implemented in major cities like Mumbai, Pune and Delhi, covering around 50 schools and more than 10,000 students. The Nalanda Project needed a tool or platform which would […]
Sol’s ARC: Content Management, Distribution and Assessment System
Sol’s ARC works to transform the education sector by conducting research into education innovation and building inclusive learning content to ensure that every child can learn; through their schools, therapies and partnerships, they make sure that no child is left behind. To enable content-sharing with partners, Sol’s ARC used Dropbox. This was a difficult process […]
Shelter Associates: Geographic Information System and Data Visualization Tool
Shelter Associates is a nonprofit organization working to improve living conditions of the urban poor in India. It works in slums and informal settlements to provide technical support for, and facilitate access to, improved housing and essential services. In order to be able to do this effectively, volunteers at Shelter carry out rapid appraisal of […]
Open Data Project
The Open Data Project aims to make socio-economic, school and crime data across multiple years available to the public in an easy-to-use manner. Data is gathered at the village, district, state and national level. This is primarily intended to make datasets available for predictive analysis and machine learning applications. Solution We combine multiple data […]
Open City: Asking the right questions
As part of the Tech4Dev cohort, in March 2020, we kickstarted the re-design of Open City, a city level data repository hosted and developed by Oorvani Foundation and Data Meet. The purpose of the redesign was to make the platform more accessible and user friendly. It was exciting to start this because it let us […]
Making Sense of Data behind data
Meta Data For Urban Data Portal OpenCity ” MetaData absolutely tells you everything about somebody’s life. If you have enough metadata you don’t really need content…[It’s] sort of embarrassing how predictable we are as human beings.” – Stewart Baker As David Weinberger said “To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata”. Metadata contain information needed […]
LeapForWord: Diagnostic Tool
LeapForWord works to improve the English language skills of children from under-served regional language communities. To enable their work, LeapForWord needed a diagnostic tool to help the user determine whether the English-teaching program will be useful for them. It would ask several questions, and based on user input, would provide the solution. Solution We […]
Institute of Health Management, Pachod: Data Collection Application
Institute of Health Management, Pachod, strives for the development of communities by conducting programs for improving the reproductive health of adolescent girls and young women; training NGOs in program delivery; and policy advocacy and research. It operates in marginalized communities in both rural and urban Maharashtra. The organization’s work relies heavily on the collection and […]
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