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Explainer: National Time Use Survey Data 2024
The National Time Use Survey (TUS) is a periodic survey conducted across the country by the National Statistics and Surveys Office (NSSO), Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation (MoSPI), Government of India. The most recent… Continue reading
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State of Under Construction Road Works in Bengaluru – 2025
A week back, OpenCity conducted a survey to crowd-source all the under construction road projects in Bengaluru. The goal was to first see how many such projects are lying around in the city and then… Continue reading
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State of Groundwater Usage in Indian Cities in 2024
The “National Compilation of Dynamic Ground Water Resources of India” is an annual report published by the Central Ground Water Board under the Ministry of Jal Shakti, Government of India. The latest report, for 2024… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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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,… Continue reading
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#Covid-19 explainer: Managing Municipal Solid Waste
Advisory 1 For Door to Door Collection This is for citizens based on generator classification for handling #COVID19 Compulsorily segregate waste as per 2 Bin1Bag method. Make sure that all dry waste is rinsed and… Continue reading
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#Covid-19 explainer: Guide to documenting migrant workers in need
Even as NGOs and government agencies are involved in providing immediate relief (cooked food or dry ration) to the most vulnerable, the gap in their efforts is in the last-mile delivery of services. Janata audits… Continue reading
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Redesigning a city-level data platform
In the age of urbanisation that’s seeing cities grow at a fast pace. Meaning larger, more diverse problems in urban planning. In such challenging times, an open data platform that captures and gives access to… Continue reading
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DataKind-Sprint 2018 : DataDive – October 13th
DataKind BLR is organising the second ‘Datajam’ on 19th August, as part of the Sprint Event. Continue reading
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DataKind-Sprint 2018 : DataJam III – September 23rd
DataKind BLR is organising the second ‘Datajam’ on 19th August, as part of the Sprint Event. Continue reading
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DataKind-Sprint 2018 : DataJam II – August 19th
DataKind BLR is organising the second ‘Datajam’ on 19th August, as part of the Sprint Event. Continue reading
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DataKind-Sprint 2018 : DataJam August 5th
DataKind BLR is organising a ‘Datajam’ on 5th August, as part of the Sprint Event. Continue reading
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DataKind-Sprint 2018 : Project Accelerator June 10th
DataKind BLR is organising its first ‘Project Accelerator’ of the year on 10th June and is partnering with OpenCity, among other organisations. Continue reading
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Understanding BDA Revised Master Plan 2031 – Webinars
B.PAC and Citizen Matters partnered to present a series of 9 webinars to help Bengalureans understand BDA’s proposed Masterplan. 1) V Ravichandar: Walking Bangalore’s citizens through the draft Revised Master Plan 2031 2) Subbaiah T S: How… Continue reading
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Georeferencing Image Maps on to a GIS Map
The is a step by step guide on how to super impose an image map (Made to Scale) on to a GIS Map. The example of a image map was sourced from here The tool… Continue reading
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