The data, tools, organisations and research that people working on public problems actually rely on — in one searchable index.
- 4th Cross Labs
Open-source hacker collective from Bengaluru building lightweight, self-hosted developer tools, communication platforms, and FOSS infrastructure
Organisation Technology India, Karnataka, Global
Go straight to 4th Cross Labs - ACT Capital Foundation
Venture philanthropy providing early-stage funding to social entrepreneurs.
Organisation Philanthropy India, Karnataka
Go straight to ACT Capital Foundation - Aga Khan Rural Support Programme India
Participatory development programmes for rural livelihoods and ecological regeneration.
Organisation Agriculture India, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar
Go straight to Aga Khan Rural Support Programme India - Agmarknet
Daily wholesale prices and arrivals for agricultural commodities, reported from regulated markets across India
Dashboard Agriculture India
Go straight to Agmarknet - Agriculture Census of India
Five-yearly statistics on operational holdings, holding size, land use, irrigation, tenancy and farmer characteristics
Data source Agriculture India
Go straight to Agriculture Census of India - AI for Public Policy Directory
Community-curated directory of AI tools, dashboards and open projects built for Indian public-policy research and practice
Directory Governance India
Go straight to AI for Public Policy Directory - AI4Bharat
Open-source research lab at IIT Madras building datasets, machine translation engines, and speech models for 22 Indian languages
Organisation Technology India, Global
Go straight to AI4Bharat - AiKosh
IndiaAI's national AI platform — 358+ curated datasets, 220+ models including Indic language LLMs, toolkits, and free GPU compute via AIRAWAT supercomputer
Data source Technology India
Go straight to AiKosh - Aikyam Fund
Strengthening early-stage social impact organisations by making fundraising, team-building, and capacity development more accessible to changemakers
Organisation Philanthropy India
Go straight to Aikyam Fund - Akshayakalpa / Akshayakalpa Foundation
Farmer-entrepreneurship, regenerative farming, and rural livelihoods rooted in organic dairy systems.
Organisation Agriculture India, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana
Go straight to Akshayakalpa / Akshayakalpa Foundation - Alar
V. Krishna's open-source Kannada-English dictionary — 247K entries with full-text search, built by Zerodha's tech team and freely accessible to all
Tool Culture & heritage India, Karnataka
Go straight to Alar - Alaveteli
Open-source Freedom of Information platform by mySociety that powers public Right to Information request portals across 25+ countries
Tool Transparency Global, India
Go straight to Alaveteli - Aleph
Open-source investigative data search and cross-referencing engine for tracking corruption, corporate registries, and leaked records
Tool Transparency Global, India
Go straight to Aleph - All India Survey on Higher Education
Annual institution-level statistics on higher-education enrolment, teachers, courses, results, finance and infrastructure
Data source Education India
Go straight to All India Survey on Higher Education - Allmaps
Open-source web platform for georeferencing, curating, and overlaying high-resolution historical maps from digital library IIIF repositories
Tool Culture & heritage Global, India
Go straight to Allmaps - ALT EFF
Climate action and awareness through the emotive power of cinema.
Organisation Climate India, Maharashtra
Go straight to ALT EFF
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