What works in Bengaluru
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Evidence snapshot for Bengaluru
Bengaluru hosts two significant edtech and data initiatives documented in the evidence. Thinkerbell Labs, based in Bengaluru, built Annie, a braille-literacy device now serving approximately 10,000 users across 300+ schools and organizations globally, with costs around US$1,000 per device. The India Urban Data Exchange (IUDX), developed by the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru in partnership with India's Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, is an open-source platform deployed operationally in Bengaluru alongside nine other Indian cities by November 2021, backed by ₹29 crore (~US$3.5 million) in central government funding. These practices are self-reported or descriptive in nature rather than rigorously evaluated, so reach and deployment figures represent company and partner claims rather than independent verification.
Drawn from: Annie: Self-Learning Braille Literacy Device Scaling Across India and Beyond · Digital Green — Video-Mediated Agricultural Extension · India Urban Data Exchange (IUDX) — Open-Source Data Exchange for Smart Cities · Shiksha Copilot — Microsoft Research's AI Lesson-Planning Assistant for Government Schools in Karnataka, India · Shiksha Copilot — AI lesson-planning assistant for public school teachers in Karnataka, India · Enable India — Assistive Technology Employment Programme · Jakkur Lake Constructed-Wetland Rejuvenation — Bengaluru's Sewage-to-Ecosystem-Service Water Fund · AI as a Compulsory Skill Subject in 1,642 of Karnataka's Government High Schools
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +49 pts 100 here · 51 average
Transferability / demonstrated replication +41 pts 100 here · 59 average
Evaluation evidence +31 pts 67 here · 36 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy +27 pts 67 here · 39 average
Demonstrated reach +25 pts 100 here · 75 average
Multi-stakeholder collaboration +22 pts 100 here · 78 average
Innovation level +16 pts 80 here · 64 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced +14 pts 67 here · 53 average
Sustainability (ongoing) +12 pts 92 here · 80 average
Weaknesses
Transparency, ethics & data protection -8 pts 42 here · 50 average
Fire resilience — risk reduction, evidenced -9 pts 0 here · 9 average
Evidence of learning impact -13 pts 17 here · 30 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -35 pts 0 here · 35 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Bengaluru. Grey bar: peer average across the corpus. Both on a common 0–100 scale.
Points compare this place's average on each dimension with the average across all evaluated places, on a common 0–100 scale. Know more
Top good practices here
Annie: Self-Learning Braille Literacy Device Scaling Across India and Beyond · 96
Digital Green — Video-Mediated Agricultural Extension · 96
India Urban Data Exchange (IUDX) — Open-Source Data Exchange for Smart Cities · 81
Shiksha Copilot — AI lesson-planning assistant for public school teachers in Karnataka, India · 67
Enable India — Assistive Technology Employment Programme · 52
Jakkur Lake Constructed-Wetland Rejuvenation — Bengaluru's Sewage-to-Ecosystem-Service Water Fund · 47
AI as a Compulsory Skill Subject in 1,642 of Karnataka's Government High Schools · 33
Each number is the practice's overall 0–100 quality score against its catalogue's rubric. Know more
Recommended to adopt or replicate
Transferable practices from elsewhere that address this place's gaps.
Ciudad Mujer — El Salvador's Integrated Women's Services Programme · fit 100/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
SASA! Community Mobilisation Programme against Intimate Partner Violence — Uganda · fit 100/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
Kartu Prakerja – National Digital Skills and Financial Inclusion Programme · fit 100/100
- Backed by strong evidence
Rwanda's Land Tenure Regularization Programme — Titling Land in Women's Names · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
Copenhagen Business Hub (Erhvervshus Hovedstaden) · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
Stadtidee Aarau — Switzerland's First City-Wide Participatory Budget Using the Method of Equal Shares · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
Abolition of Chhaupadi — Ending Menstrual Exile Huts in Nepal's Far- and Mid-Western Districts · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
Fit estimates how well a practice matches this place, 0 (poor) to 100 (excellent); the list is ordered to favour practices that address this place's gaps. Know more