Government & Politics

At Your Doorstep: Transforming Governance in Delhi

April 20, 2022

Innovation in government services to citizen (G2C) service platform

Summary

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) won a landslide victory in the state elections in India’s national capital of Delhi in 2015. Their campaign was run on reducing corruption and increasing transparency in governance. The Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his deputy tasked the Department of Administrative Reforms to come up with a program that would increase access to government services for citizens, and reduce bureaucratic corruption.

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Atmospheric River Data: Key to Saving California’s Agricultural Sector

December 1, 2022

California’s agricultural sector is reliant on the increasingly unpredictable mega-storms, called atmospheric rivers, that can dump as much water as twenty Mississippi rivers. Climate change has created unprecedented extremes: in some years there may only be one atmospheric river, while in others California can be inundated by twenty. As a result, farmers may face one year of extreme drought and be forced to fallow their land, and in others their fields may be unprepared for a deluge of water. In order for players in the nation’s largest agricultural sector to prepare for the increasingly...