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Helping Cities Augment Own-source Revenues: Highlights from the Greater Chennai Corporation Strategy and Three-year Roadmap
By Athena Infonomics
Cities can be creative in boosting their own source revenues in India—and the Greater Chennai Corporation is leading that...
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Building a Resilient Digital Financial Ecosystem through Meaningful Inclusion
By Priyadharshini R. Alagarraj
COVID-19 has left a tangible impact on the financial sector’s key functions by posing several operational challenges—obstruction in physical...
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Collective Intelligence and Citizen Data for Water Management: Reflections from the Chennai Floods
By Sabareesh Suresh
World Water Day, celebrated each year on March 22, allows us to focus on this most vital of resources,...
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Water Balance Plans: The Importance of Co-production of Knowledge and Action for Integrated, Inclusive, and Resilient Management of Water Resources
By Anupama VS and Deepa Karthykeyan
Today, millions around the world are celebrating World Water Day. This year’s World Water Day theme—Valuing Water—serves as an...
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Designing an M&E System for Impact Evaluation: Tips for Program Designers and Evaluators!
By Dr. Jyotsna Puri (Jo) and Dr. Francis Rathinam
Not another blog! Isn’t measurement old hat? Excitingly, sixteen new Green Climate Fund (GCF) projects have just been invited...
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Internships at Athena Infonomics: In Their Own Words
By John Harvey
An internship at Athena Infonomics allows you to develop, both professionally and by creating an impact in people’s everyday…
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Internships at Athena Infonomics: Develop through Data
By John Harvey
An internship at Athena Infonomics allows you to develop, both professionally and by creating an impact in people’s everyday…
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Catalyzing Development: Sharing Development Information Effectively
By Praveen Ravi
Development agencies frequently talk of “catalyzing development” – What does this mean in the context of World Development Information…
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Data on Women and Girls: What Can We Do Better?
By Deepa Karthykeyan
Only 13% of countries currently possess dedicated budgets for collecting and analyzing disaggregated data on women and girls -…
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How to Build a Data System for Urban Malaria Surveillance
By Susannah Horton
Vector borne communicable diseases such as malaria pose a significant public health threat in urban clusters. Sprawling cities have been identified...
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Using Data Science to Predict Future Increases in Women and Girls’ Literacy Rates
By Raghuveer Dinavahi
Methodology To calculate the estimates, a model which has the starting point 0 (which indicates 0 zero literacy rate...
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Vellore: Set to Become a Smart City
By Kowshik Ganesh
Vellore City is Northern Tamil Nadu’s gateway and an important corridor city of strategic relevance. The city is of...
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Using Tech to Optimize Health Data Management in India
By Sais
This blog entry has been re-published on our website with the express permission of SAIS Perspectives. For the original...
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International Tiger Day: Big Data for Big Cats
By Kiran Rajashekariah
Global trends of urbanization, industrialization, agricultural expansion, and rapid development of infrastructure have led to massive change in land...
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4 Reasons Why Cities Need to Revisit Sanitation Strategies
By Praveen Ravi
A look at the State Annual Action Plan (SAAP) proposed by the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD).
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ARMIS: Using Data to Enhance Urban Mobility
By Sam Cheriyan
The system will use GPS enabled digital meters to track the movements of auto rickshaws on a real time…
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Data Systems in India: The Case for an Audacious Overhaul
By Adarsh Mathew
This blog is an outcome of a discussion on the current state of data systems in India and the...
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Data Analytics for the Kerala Harvest Festival of Onam
By Athena Infonomics
It was a customary Onam celebration at Athena with a colorfully arranged Onam pookalam (traditional flower arangement) adorning the...
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How Can Chennai Listen Better to Data? A Case for Putting Data to Work in Cities
By Deepa Karthykeyan
During a recent brainstorming exercise on ‘designing interventions to improve the status of Solid Waste Management’ in a pilot...
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Are we ready for Direct Benefit Transfer through Aadhaar?
By Praveen Ravi
In an interesting development, the Central Government has decided to move forward on Aadhaar based DBT for PDS. The...
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