Internships at Athena Infonomics: In Their Own Words
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
An internship at Athena Infonomics allows you to develop, both professionally and by creating an impact in people’s everyday…
Catalyzing Development: Sharing Development Information Effectively
Development agencies frequently talk of “catalyzing development” – What does this mean in the context of World Development Information…
Data on Women and Girls: What Can We Do Better?
Only 13% of countries currently possess dedicated budgets for collecting and analyzing disaggregated data on women and girls -…
How to Build a Data System for Urban Malaria Surveillance
Vector borne communicable diseases such as malaria pose a significant public health threat in urban clusters. Sprawling cities have been identified...
Using Data Science to Predict Future Increases in Women and Girls’ Literacy Rates
Methodology To calculate the estimates, a model which has the starting point 0 (which indicates 0 zero literacy rate...
Vellore: Set to Become a Smart City
Vellore City is Northern Tamil Nadu’s gateway and an important corridor city of strategic relevance. The city is of...
Using Tech to Optimize Health Data Management in India
This blog entry has been re-published on our website with the express permission of SAIS Perspectives. For the original...
International Tiger Day: Big Data for Big Cats
Global trends of urbanization, industrialization, agricultural expansion, and rapid development of infrastructure have led to massive change in land...
4 Reasons Why Cities Need to Revisit Sanitation Strategies
A look at the State Annual Action Plan (SAAP) proposed by the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD).
ARMIS: Using Data to Enhance Urban Mobility
The system will use GPS enabled digital meters to track the movements of auto rickshaws on a real time…
Data Systems in India: The Case for an Audacious Overhaul
This blog is an outcome of a discussion on the current state of data systems in India and the...
Data Analytics for the Kerala Harvest Festival of Onam
It was a customary Onam celebration at Athena with a colorfully arranged Onam pookalam (traditional flower arangement) adorning the...
How Can Chennai Listen Better to Data? A Case for Putting Data to Work in Cities
During a recent brainstorming exercise on ‘designing interventions to improve the status of Solid Waste Management’ in a pilot...
Are we ready for Direct Benefit Transfer through Aadhaar?
In an interesting development, the Central Government has decided to move forward on Aadhaar based DBT for PDS. The...
Data Solutions
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Water Supply Services in Mumbai: A Scoping Study to Understand the Access of Services, Technology, Critical Gaps and to Explore the Possibility of Improvement -
Final Report: Understanding Demand and Funding for Piped-Water Supply in Mandalay City -
City Wide Inclusive Sanitation Service Assessment and Planning Tool -
Fundraising Strategy for Smile Train -
Sustainable Farmer Producer Organizations for Improved Agricultural Productivity and Farmer Livelihoods -
Affordable Green Housing Finance India – Market Research and Development of Business Case