Announcements

2018 was an incredible year #InsideSocialCops and your support made it only better.❤️ From getting recognized as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum to making three open-source contributions in 2018, we have been fortunate to have shared it all with you. We wish you a wonderful 2019 from all of us at…

November #InsideSocialCops was as wonderful as it could get! With a lot of new team members joining in, Diwali celebrations, Dog Day, and wonderful #InsideData sessions — it was an exciting month for all of us here. And, as always, we are glad to share it all with you. Here…

As a growing company, each day at SocialCops is about going beyond our boundaries and working to build a company that not just sustains, but thrives. In the last three months, we learned, failed often and achieved milestones, but most importantly, we grew. We grew as a team, as individuals,…

September was about working heads down to close our quarter goals, reflect back, and gear up to enter the last quarter of the year with big lessons, and bigger goals. 💪 And, as always, we are glad to have you part of our journey. Here is a glimpse of September…

As we enter the last month of this quarter, our team has been working super hard to complete our quarterly goals. 💪 We are solving new problems, writing a lot of blogs, and doing polls to decide the next day to bring dogs to work. We are always glad to…

July was all about small wins, new experiences and lots of learnings. Fun fact: This is the 12th hello we are sharing. This monthly newsletter that bundles up all our stories completes one year — we are so grateful to share our journey of building SocialCops with you. Here are…

Every story has a beginning, middle, and an end; and so does every year. As we came to the middle of our year, we took some time to reflect on our journey, celebrate some humbling wins and pace forward by setting some big goals for the rest of the year.…

“The DISHA Dashboard will be interactive and multi-dimensional, providing multiple views of performance of schemes, with geography drillable down to gram panchayat level, and comparisons across various time dimensions enabled just by the click of a button.” – Shri Ram Kripal Yadav Minister of State for Rural Development, Government of…

May has been a very special month for all of us #InsideSocialCops. Some incredible, humbling news knocked on our doors. One that we welcomed with arms wide open and dreams soaring high; one that seemed like a dream just a couple of years ago. On that note, this blog is…

At SocialCops, what we do is driven by our mission of creating meaningful impact. Whether it is helping an organization to make its everyday decisions smarter or powering a national scheme that makes life better for 50 million women, it is always the impact that matters. April was one humbling…

We are now a full quarter into 2018, with an amazing last month in our rearview mirror. We couldn’t have wished for a better segue to the coming miles of our journey! We won some humbling and exciting awards, kickstarted some thrilling projects, met our fellow data and tech enthusiasts…

We’ve always thought that we’re a pretty cool company, but how do you verify that? Is there, like, some company that goes around finding and calling out the other cool kids on the block? It looks like there is, because we’re excited to announce that Aasaanjobs named us one of the Best Startups…

It’s time to talk about the unique, little page of our calendars — February! A lot like its special existence, it was a special month #InsideSocialCops. We welcomed some amazing people, some powerful features, and some humbling awards to the SocialCops family. All this and more made it a month…

2018 has gained its own sweet momentum and we couldn’t have wished for a better start. In addition to the hustle and bustle, planning, and dreaming that January brings with it, it also brought in some (oh so amazing!) opportunities and experiences for all of us #InsideSocialCops. What we have…

“Just imagine, we can create a world where data is not just used to increase the number of likes on your profile but to improve the life of every [person] living in every corner of the world.” On New Year’s Eve 2017, our co-founder Prukalpa Sankar took the stage on TED…

We started SocialCops just over four years ago with a dream — that data can make our world better. Since then, we’ve been searching for how to make this a reality and 2017 was the year that gave us the answer! This year, we watched in awe as the Prime…

November has been a wonderful month for us. We kick-started new projects, our product hit some exciting benchmarks, and we received some news that we’re oh so happy to share with you. Let’s dive in! What we have been up to lately Google just announced their 5th class of Launchpad Accelerator,…

We’ve got some good news, and we’re oh so happy to share it with you. Google just announced their 5th class of Launchpad Accelerator, and we’re so excited to be a part of the group. We’ll be joining 23 other startups from around the world in San Francisco in January…

What a month it has been #InsideSocialCops! With the Prime Minister of India launching one of our projects, an action-packed townhall meeting, some really fun Diwali celebrations, and lots of traveling — it was no less than an absolute joy. Here is a roundup of what all went into making…

This blog was originally published in October 2017, then a few stats were updated in July 2018 as the platform expanded. “DISHA is a crucial step towards good governance through which we will be able to monitor everything centrally. It will enable us to effectively monitor every village of the country.”…

It has been a wonderful month #InsideSocialCops — projects gained momentum, new impactful discussions took flight, and with all this came a lot of traveling. Here are some of the stories from what was a great September. 🎉 What we have been up to lately Our work with Pradhan Mantri…

It has been a really interesting month #InsideSocialCops and we are super excited to share it with you — new stories, new experiences, and so much more. Let’s begin! 🚀 What have we been up to lately? The product team at SocialCops holds innovation close to their heart — so…

We are excited to launch the first edition of Inside SocialCops — our newsletter that brings you stories of what is brewing at SocialCops. New projects, new faces, and new experiences, everything in one place. What have we been up to lately? We integrated some powerful, new features into our…

We’re super excited to announce the launch of the first online course from the SocialCops Academy — Planning for Data Collection. Sign up here. Master the basic concepts, tools and tips you need to create a stellar data collection plan for your organization in this online course. Learn how mobile-based…

SocialCops was invited to speak at the #BusinessCoalition4SDGs Conference held in Papua New Guinea where we presented our work around tracking India’s progress towards achieving United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) with the help of data intelligence. “The forum heard about an innovative web platform developed by a leading Indian…

The Guardian Minister is scheduled to arrive just shy of midnight — at 11:30 pm. The Collector told us about the Minister’s visit earlier that day, and we’ve now been waiting four hours to show him our village development dashboard. At 11:30 pm, the door of the newly renovated conference…

Before I joined SocialCops, I was working for myself as a freelance designer. Letting go of my independence to join a startup was an intimidating leap. Since I had no experience with number crunching, I thought my biggest challenge would be entering this data-driven world. But I actually had a…

If you’ve checked out our website recently, you might have noticed that some things have changed. We have a completely new logo, new look, new ideas behind our work…and even the website is all new! All of these changes are the result of our our brand refresh, which we’re excited…

People often post random questions in our chat box. Some people ask “So what do you really do?” Some do their research and get more specific. “Are you a data collection app?”, “Are you a database?”, “Are you an analytics company?”, and “Are you a data visualization company?” are common questions.…

In September 2016, we were invited to speak at the 4th year of The Big 5 Construct India 2016 in Mumbai. The conferences gathered the best of the construction industry and the latest solutions specifically tailored for the Indian built environment under one roof. In total, the conference featured 150 exhibitors (including us!) from…

This Saturday, August 27, we were excited to speak at ZEE MELT 2016, India’s biggest festival for creativity and innovation in marketing and communications. .@Social_Cops Christine and you guys should keep that brilliant work up! Thanks so much for doing this for #zeemelthttps://t.co/WZzgfs9jux — Kyoorius (@Kyoorius) August 27, 2016 In case you missed…

Don’t have the time to read the full blog? Check out our deck instead! Top 10 Highlights of 2015 – SocialCops from SocialCops On the first Monday of 2016, we started our year with a Team Townhall to reflect on the previous year and plan for what is coming next.…

This year, on World Mental Health Day, we are happy to announce an exciting partnership with The Live Love Laugh Foundation, the non-profit started by Deepika Padukone to champion the cause of mental health in India. Mental health is an issue that is silently plaguing India at a massive scale. Disorders…

We’re excited to announce that we were one of 35 startups selected for the first India-U.S. Startup Konnect, which showcases the most innovative Indian startups across different sectors. Our co-founder Varun Banka took a trip out to Silicon Valley to present our work to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and leading entrepreneurs. .@Social_Cops…

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…

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…

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…

The Problem The small city of Ranchi was known for poor street lighting since time anyone remembered – a basic problem that led most people to pull out their smartphones from their pockets post 7 p.m. and not think twice about it. Broken streetlights caused much bigger problems in the…

The Problem In India, “Safai Karamcharis” refer to the group of public workers responsible for street sweeping and garbage picking. The public worker system in India lacks an incredibly important component – incentives for good performance. People tend to perform better when recognized for their good performance.  While this is…

We’re excited to announce that SocialCops was chosen as one of the top 10 emerging startups in India by NASSCOM to meet and speak with the PMO India Narendra Modi, along with other leading startups like: Cash Karo, My Notice Period, News In Shorts, Freshdesk, Table Grabber, Komli, Wingify, Rolocule. Shout out…

On Oct 2nd, 2014, PM Narendra Modi launched the Swachh Bharat Mission, a clarion call for citizens to participate in the process of creating a clean India. Narendra Modi’s words echoed the vision that we have been striving towards at SocialCops. We’ve always called for citizens to stop complaining and start contributing. In…

Last week, the official funding announcement from the SocialCops team went out – we raised USD 320k to further our mission of powering the world’s decisions through data from the grassroots. We’d like to officially welcome our kickass investors – 500 Startups, Rajan Anandan (MD, Google India) and Manoj Menon (MD, Frost…

We’ve always said that we’re all about data. We want to power the data behind any big decision that impacts the world… social data, if you may. The Census is the only reference point for most data interpretations to measure quality of life indicators in the country. We asked ourselves…

December 2013 is here. It’s Thanksgiving weekend, and the SocialCops team is in Delhi. Sitting in our cozy, small office, I can’t help marvel over the fact that we’re really here. About 16 months ago, we decided to stop thinking and start doing. We released a Facebook campaign and crowdfunding campaign to…

On September 11th, 2012, we launched a crowdfunding campaign asking for your support to make our dream of empowering citizens to change the country bit by bit come true. The support that we received from you was the biggest motivating factor in giving us the strength to persevere through this journey. SocialCops as…