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June 2015
Public Health: Current Situation and Opportunities India spends $252 million every year on tuberculosis control and management. But 278,000 lives are lost each year despite the onerous efforts to curb the disease. Where do the doctors fail? What do the DOTS clinics do wrong? Or is it only because people do…
Mapping Granular Household-Level Data for a Small Village in Odisha
Tata Trusts wanted to be able to visualise granular household level data for a small village in Orissa, in an intuitive, lifelike manner that could help identify various issues and their patterns in occurrence. We built them a map with custom shape files of the houses that represented the data…
Our Second Anniversary: Introducing SocialCops.com
June 19th marks an important date in the history of SocialCops – our anniversary. On June 19th, 2013, Varun and I arrived in Delhi to kickstart a few pilots aimed at driving better decisions in governance through better data collection. Through the course of the next year, we piloted one of…
Using Mobile Technology to Optimize Disaster Relief Efforts
Summary The Nepal earthquake in April-May, 2015 was one of the worst natural disasters to have hit the region in over 8 decades: tens of thousands of people were killed, and a lot more injured. Goonj – India’s leading disaster relief organisation – needed to ensure that their resources were…