Building Civic Muscle and 21st century skills @reapbenefit | Civic Tech and Data 4 Good | Community Builder | Foss enthusiast
Chennai, India
Joined December 2010
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Here is a digital platform that help in solving local public problem. V1.0 is live and we need your help. To know more and ways to get involved check link: @ReapBenefit
“Samaaj data – Open Digital Public Goods for and by – the community”
link.medium.com/ceJzZq4DGxb
When working with data, especially large volumes, you have to be conscious of how it’s communicated—otherwise it can completely throw things off - Sunder INREM. #Samaajdata Collective
Approximation signs and whole plus signs created a lot of confusion in the report - Fun experience with data #Samaajdata collective
We @ReapBenefit work to activate youth agency through local problem-solving, which leads to the creation of resilient communities.
We @ReapBenefit are at Commons Convening - to reflect, discuss and act for community-led governance of Commons.
#CommonsConvening2024 #Changemakers #PromiseOfCommons #GenerationRestoration #CommunityLeaders
At @FOSSUnited #Chennai 2.0 today. If you are around let’s connect. @FOSSChennai @ReapBenefit Foss+Social Impact
I am at #Tech4Impact conference in Bangalore. Let’s connect if you are here @ReapBenefit
To all wonderful women out there making a difference..
Fact: Empowering women is empowering #communities 💪🏻
This #InternationalWomensDay, we tip our hats to the diverse and awesome problem solvers and changemakers reshaping the world, one #resilient community at a time! ✨
#IWD2024 #WomenxCommunity #InspireInclusion
I am in Doha for the #WiseSummit2023 looking forward for the next 3 days. If you are curious about how local problem solving/project based learning activates 21st century skills and enable communities as a learning space let’s talk about what we do in @ReapBenefit – at Doha, Qatar
Tech + Local Data + Citizen = Empowered Community + Onground action
Here is a story map on how street audit powered by @WhatsApp chatbot has lead to hyperlocal impact on ground through local data and local community
More:
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories…
🌟 Check out the incredible journey of Lalith our @ReapBenefit Solve Ninja, from high school to civic tech innovator. He's making a real impact with #StreetAudit! 🌍
🔗 LinkedIn post: linkedin.com/posts/gauthamra…
#CommunityImpact #CivicTech #GetInvolved #ClimateAction 🛠️🌱🌏
Classic example of why it is important for local community to have a voice in implementation of citizen welfare efforts. – at Chennai, India
Residents of adyar started 2nd round of their campaign against toilet construction on beach sand at #Elliotsbeach as we could see construction activities has been resumed. @chennaicorp @rdc_south @RAKRI1 @PriyarajanDMK @CMOTamilnadu
#savethebeach
Gauthamraj Elango retweeted
@CMOTamilnadu @rdc_south @chennaicorp1 @KN_NEHRU @SDMeena_IAS since SWD is blocked @ 2nd Avenue Indra Nagar adyar , water has started entering the house premises will you plz take action?
Patience and perseverance is the key to bring in change. Had a wonderful time with bunch of inspiring people working to make the chennai city a safe, inclusive and eco-friendly place for everyone. Thanks @citizenmatters for doing this roundtable on civic change.
Climate change problems has its roots at local level. Hence they need to be addressed at the source. The local community are best placed and interested to solve them.
Here is the audit done by citizens on their neighbourhood streets in Bangalore.
#WorldEnvironmentDay2023 – at Chennai, India
As a part of #WorldEnvironmentDay2023 our team @ReapBenefit launched #AreYouListening - campaign focused on exposing realities of one’s neighbourhood by doing an audit of their street. So far we have about:
- 33 committed citizens done 300+ Audits
- Across 40 Wards of Bangalore – at Chennai, India
The data will be collated and handed over to the deputy chief minister of Karnataka for appropriate action before the start of real monsoon season.
If you are interested in supporting this effort - help writing reports or anything do reach out to @archanakra – at Chennai, India
On #environmentalday let’s seed for change and better livelihoods for everyone. Here is one such initiative by my team @ReapBenefit leveraging technology with chatbots to audit streets. @WISE_Tweets @SocietalThinkng @RainmatterOrg – at Chennai, India
hello @DKShivakumar avre, @BBMPCOMM avre and all Representatives, It is good to see you started talking about Bangalore development. As part of the #WorldEnvironmentDay see Citizens of Bengaluru n @ReapBenefit #Solevninajs did their street audit
PC: #Solveninja dashboard
