Outcomes-Based Instruments Work: Learning from the World’s Largest Education Impact Bond
The Quality Education India Development Impact Bond (QEI DIB) offers valuable insight into how to design and evaluate outcomes-based instruments for success.
#JustTech: The Revolution of Online Dispute Resolution
Online dispute resolution has the potential to ease the burden of caseload carried by courts, while at the same time making justice more accessible and decentralised. What does the ODR growth in India look like?
Harnessing the Power of Collaboratives for Social Impact: 5 Things to Know
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic surfaced in most parts of the world, including India, and changed how people, communities and organisations function. There is...
#JustTech: Let’s Co-Create Technology to Build Legal Solutions For Vulnerable Communities
How can collaborative legal technology building improve solutions for vulnerable communities?
Building India’s Sports Stack – a Systems Approach to Using Sport for Society
The Sports and Society Accelerator’s seven-layer ‘Sports Stack’ is a starting point to deliver on the social potential of sport and address issues of inclusion, empowerment and community.
How Technology Can Improve Citizen Civic Engagement
Technology can improve the way that citizens engage with the law. Citizen feedback is crucial to a healthy legal system- what technological tools can improve the pre-legislative consultation process in India?
People First: Reimagining Design and Technology for Community Healthcare
“What is in it for you? Why are you doing this?” asks one of the Health Navigators (HNs) in Channapatna, the “Toy-City'' of Karnataka,...
A Crisis is Brewing in Goa’s Booming Alcohol Industry
India’s 'party capital' is never short of a drink. With 92 registered distilleries, wineries, and breweries, Goa’s alcohol industry is a highly polluting and resource-intensive one. Could small-scale producers of local beverages like feni offer alternatives to the larger beer , gin, and whiskey industry?
Channelling the Right to Work Towards Climate Resilient, Sustainable Livelihoods
The cumulative effect that MNREGS activities can have on reducing agriculture, disaster, and livelihood-based vulnerabilities of rural households is staggering, and frankly quite underrated.
Your Corporator: The Elected Representative You Forget to Vote For
Corporators have the agency and opportunity to attend to, if not solve, the most immediate and proximate woes of an urban citizen. Yet, municipal elections continue to be one of the most ignored aspects of Indian democracy, with local politics playing subordinate to state and national politics.
