Reducing the risks of extreme weather events involves many actors working together to make complex decisions; we are thankful to Assam State Disaster Management Authority for their support & commitment to leveraging #Data to improve #floodpreparedness in #Assam. Pre-monsoon workshop with officials on #IDSDRR.

Can you recognize the physicist standing between Dirac and SN Bose in this picture? She is Purnima Sinha, one of the first women PhDs from India. Sinha was Bose's PhD student. Although Bose was famous for his theoretical work(Bose statistics), he was also a keen experimenter.

Thrilled to announce a Flood Risk Management Data Visualization platform built for Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (#BMA). Developed in collaboration with Open Contracting Partnership & CivicDataLab, it was presented to BMA Dpty Governor wisanu Subsompon & Sanon Wangsrangboon.

I am hosting the Open Data devroom at #IndiaFOSS with Thejesh GN ⏚ ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ ಎನ್ | thejeshgn.com Gaurav Godhwani, Kartik Kwatra, and Unnati Patel The CFP is now open (Deadline: 7-Jun) We're looking for talks around Open Datasets, Open Data tooling, Data journalism etc. Please apply/share: fossunited.org/indiafoss/2025…

'Data for public interest: a talk on #innovation and #OpenData' Cotton University, thank you for this invigorating conversation with the faculty and students. Our co-founder & executive director Gaurav Godhwani & other bandhus, shared CivicDataLab's work in #Data4PublicGood.

Incredible view of Himalayas from Champawat

With Open Contracting Partnership & Bangkok Metropolitan Administration CivicDataLab has developed a data visualisation platform for #FloodRisk Management. We conducted an interactive workshop with #BMA officials for the handover of this dashboard on May 14

Truly honoured to sign & endorse the Hamburg Declaration on Responsible AI for SDGs at the #HSC25. Excited to strengthen @CivicDataLab's commitment towards responsible pathways for AI & data innovations, grounded in local knowledge, Open Data & #FOSS. Learn more:

Come intern with us at @CivicDataLab, and help shape data & AI for public good ecosystem in an inclusive & responsible manner. We have multiple fellowship opportunities this summer, apply now: #OpenData #FOSS #Data4Good #Data4Climate #Internship

Important Update! 🌡️🔥 Informal Workers & Heatwaves NDMA has issued a landmark advisory to protect India’s 80% urban workforce from heatwave risks. This includes street vendors, construction workers, domestic workers & more—most exposed to rising temperatures daily. 🔥 👨‍🏭 1/3

Bhogeswar Thumung is the last living speaker of the Khamyang language. Under #DigitisingAssam, we’re archiving not just his voice—but the entire language. A world is vanishing, but not without a trace. 1/2

We’re racing against time to archive the Khamyang language through #DigitisingAssam. Supported by AASU this Endangered Language Programme (ELP), also covers Tai Phake & Singpho. Utpal Sarma Dr. Samujjal Bhattacharjya

Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

Chinar in Delhi: A Chinar (Platanus orientalis) tree, presented by France during G-20 and planted in Nehru Park, has won the odds and has survived Delhi! This is first of its kind!

CivicDataLab was at the Meghna Knowledge Forum II, which happened from 23-25 July 2025 at the AIT. We were invited to present in the session titled "Shaping River-Basin Futures Together: Tools, Data & Dialogue for Scenario-Driven Planning," hosted by the SEI Research.

9 tigers from 9 different Indian folk art forms preserving 9 age-old ways of looking at and living with the tigers. #InternationalTigerDay #InternationalTigerDay2025

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Parsing PDFs has slowly driven me insane over the last year. Here are 8 weird edge cases to show you why PDF parsing isn't an easy problem. 🧵