OpenCity

OpenCity is Oorvani Foundation’s urban data commons platform, designed to make Indian city data accessible and usable. It hosts datasets on city budgets, municipal finance, ward boundaries, mobility, public services, and environmental indicators — structured around the needs of civic researchers, journalists, and activists rather than government reporting requirements. OpenCity also runs data jams and community data collection events, building a practice of collaborative urban data stewardship. For anyone working on Indian urban issues, OpenCity provides both data and a model for how civic data infrastructure should work: open, maintainable, and connected to community action.