The other week, I was a curious participant in the concluding session of the recent training program Arghyam had organized to train non-profits participating in a state-wide survey they've planned.
As someone who's helping out with Kannada version of the India Water Portal, I was very curious to see how they have planned the project and how they're going to execute this. After attending the session, I should say that it was time spent for good. The passionate team behind it seems to have done quite a lot of ground work in planning the survey and chalking out the details.
What struck me was the simplicity with which they had arranged it, the simple approach and the enthusiasm of team behind it that was keen to discuss and also to share information, details about the survey.
The survey, according to coordinators of the project, is covering close to 17,200 villages of 28 districts in Karnataka and is aimed at logging water quality and availability among several other things.
What I liked specifically was how they asserted on "getting the data right". It could make this effort unique and more authentic, reliable channel for information. Rohini Nilekani was present during the concluding session and it was nice listening to her, very clear and down-to-earth. She also spoke in Kannada, and the language was quite good as well, considering that she doesn't seem to be a native speaker. The representatives from the non-profits were clearly quite moved by this and they went clapping each time - at which she modestly requested them not to clap and the rest of the discussion too stayed quite nice and informal.
More about the event on the log I've written in Kannada.
More about the survey is here.
The other week, I was a curious participant in the concluding session of the recent training program Arghyam had organized to train non-profits participating in a state-wide survey they've planned.
As someone who's helping out with Kannada version of the India Water Portal, I was very curious to see how they have planned the project and how they're going to execute this. After attending the session, I should say that it was time spent for good. The passionate team behind it seems to have done quite a lot of ground work in planning the survey and chalking out the details.
What struck me was the simplicity with which they had arranged it, the simple approach and the enthusiasm of team behind it that was keen to discuss and also to share information, details about the survey.
The survey, according to coordinators of the project, is covering close to 17,200 villages of 28 districts in Karnataka and is aimed at logging water quality and availability among several other things.
What I liked specifically was how they asserted on "getting the data right". It could make this effort unique and more authentic, reliable channel for information. Rohini Nilekani was present during the concluding session and it was nice listening to her, very clear and down-to-earth. She also spoke in Kannada, and the language was quite good as well, considering that she doesn't seem to be a native speaker. The representatives from the non-profits were clearly quite moved by this and they went clapping each time - at which she modestly requested them not to clap and the rest of the discussion too stayed quite nice and informal.
More about the event on the log I've written in Kannada.
More about the survey is here.
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