Gaurav Godhwani is co-founder and executive director at CivicDataLab - a research lab harnessing data, tech, design and social science to strengthen data for public good and enhance civic engagements in India & other countries. For last 13+ years, he has been instrumental in shaping data initiatives like - DataKind Bangalore, Open Budgets India, Justice Hub & Open Contracting India. Currently, he is focused to enable millions of changemakers to harness data & AI innovations in sectors like Climate Resilience, Disaster Risk Reduction, Public Finance, Public Health, Urban Planning, Law & Justice, and more

Related Talks:

• State of open source in India - GitHub Satellite, India 2021: https://githubsatellite.com/sessions/state-of-open-source-in-india/
• Roundtable Discussion on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) - Digital India 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq5fN7bdOuE
• Controlling fraud, corruption in emergency procurement & supply management using Open Data - Global Procurement Summit, 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JIKjcutNHg
• Data in Social Change - Skills Training for Advancement in Rural Societies (STARS) Forum, 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbz2qYU3dJg
• Opening Up Public Procurement Data to Break the Cycle in Government’s Biggest Corruption Risk - International Anti-Corruption Conference 2020: https://vimeo.com/502088893
• Leveraging Open Ecosystems - Charcha 2020, India 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxye_AdYfhw
• Open Data in India: Data & Technology for Impact - Arthan, India 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcndoaIUMow
• Fantastic Indian Open Datasets & Where to Find Them - ODSC, India 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RtopUeqRaY
• Open Data, Open Opportunities - TEDxNITKSurathkal, India 2019: https://www.ted.com/talks/gaurav_godhwani_open_data_open_opportunities
• Time Series Analysis of District-wise Government Spending in India - ODSC, India 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGltOKRG5X8
• Transforming India's Budgets into Open Linked Data - HasGeek, India 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX7-Ega6OxA
• Ingredients Of Co-Creating An Open Data Initiative - Creative Commons Summit, 2017: https://speakerdeck.com/gggodhwani/cc-summit-2017-ingredients-of-co-creating-an-open-data-initiative
• Open Budgets & Public Health Indicators - Open Data Camp, Bangalore 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26oz-HsHprQ
• Data Science For Good - Life with Data, Bangalore 2015: https://speakerdeck.com/gggodhwani/data-science-for-good

Teaching Experience:

• Open Data Visualization - Tools and Techniques to Better Report Data- FORCE11 Scholarly Communication Institute (FSCI) at UCSD, 2018
• Opening-up Research and Data (Day 1 & Day 2) - FORCE11 Scholarly Communication Institute (FSCI) at UCSD, 2017 (Links: https://speakerdeck.com/gggodhwani/opening-up-research-and-data-day1-force11-scholarly-communication-institute-fsci, https://speakerdeck.com/gggodhwani/opening-up-research-and-data-day2-force11-scholarly-communication-institute-fsci )