aKasmika ideates solutions for vulnerable people in low-resource environments. It does this through Innovations and applied technologies. These may be information technologies or even just the act of manually pressing a handful of soil to understand the status of soil moisture. And it may be based on mapping for spatial distribution or handheld phones for capturing offline data directly from the field. Or in finding ecom solutions to ensure PWDs are able to buy aids and appliances from their homes.
As a small digital resource group, aKasmika works with the disadvantaged to bridge the digital divide between them and the rest of the wired world. aKasmika recognises Volunteers, NGOs and other groups who work with vulnerable people and communities as also amongst the disadvantaged.
aKasmika builds GIS/MIS Data Backbones for data aggregation and accountability.
aKasmika has built backbones for
- Kallike, the SDTT-supported education resource group in Yadgiri for a Livelihoods database
- MSSRF, Chennai, to track carbon benefits of its interventions in 3 tribal communities in Koraput district,
- Climate-Neutral Village, a platform to track whether and to what degree rural communities were able to cope with the impact of Climate Change,
- Intideepam, a women’s federation in the Nizamabad, Nirmal and Kammareddy districts of Telangana to aggregate their micro credit and livelihoods interventions.
- IRDT, Hosur district
- DC, Bengaluru Rural, problem identification and tracking, Agallakuppe Sansad Adarsh Grama Yojana,
- ICAR South Zone, Bengaluru, – 6-district presentation of PRA data
aKasmika is also exploring a package of Accountability Credits to bring transparency and accountability into fund raising for
- Monitoring and Assurance tools for Water, Trees and CO2 savings as Climate Change tools, and
- e-commerce (https://endless.today/), as well as other village applications.
Water Pressure is a centre for water enquiries.
- Water Pressure supported the HUF-SAMUHA Partnership to develop and monitor water conservation
- in Canal-irrigated paddy that has led to a cumulative savings of 289.08 billion litres of water. Of this, 40.96 b/l is awaiting assurance. The Balance 248.12 b/l has been assured by E&Y and Deloitte annually since 2014.
- through MGNREGA water holding treatments built through MGNREGA resources which has to a cum water holding capacity of 23,30,369 cum, which has harvested 9.32 b/l of unassured rain fall since 2016.
- Water Pressure also supported SAMUHA to submit its experiences in canal-irrigated paddy in Nov 2019 as its contribution to the drafting committee for the new National Water Policy.
- Water Pressure is presently supporting Prarambha, which is the Secretariat for Janara Network, a platform for CBOs (Community-based Organisations) in Raichur and Koppal districts.
- Water Pressure is exploring monitoring and assurance of watershed development interventions through a system of accountability credits that it is developing to facilitate fundraising for field interventions:
- blue.red as a Covid-19 + Climate Adaptation Response
- sdg.red to monitor tangible community benefits that will help India meet specific SDG Commitments with a modular backbone that can keep evolving
- water.squared to support the transition from canal-irrigated paddy practices that are poisoning our food chain to NPM (non-pesticide management) Paddy
- commonz.red Credits to build on MGNREGA resources to develop the Commons in 175 villages by adapting Miyawaki forest principles
- treez.red as a tree growing network of Biotasoil, Samarthya and Prarambha. treez.red will allow people to support the network or a specific partner by donating Rs 450 per surviving tree per year, and to receive O2.CO2.H2O (Oxygen,Carbon.Water) Credits for the same.
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Climate Mitigation
- aKasmika has submitted a proposal through Fair Climate Fund, Netherlands to Climate Ledger Initiative. The proposal is built around blockchain technology and will connect cookstove users to retail carbon purchasers. This is awaiting a decision.
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Climate Adaptation
- Water Pressure supported SAMUHA to present its MGNREGA experiences to the National Water Mission on 22.06.2019.
- Water Pressure helped SAMUHA to prepare two district level proposals for Rs 861.36 Crores for the National Water Mission in June, 2019.
- Raichur district – Rs 416.64 Crores
- Koppal district – Rs 444.72 Crores
There was no response from the National Water Mission to these proposals.
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Ecom
aKasmika set up ecom operations in Chikkaballapura, Karnataka, to help small shopkeepers and service providers to sell products and services to their customers online. 1,237 shops were onboarded. Unfortunately, online sales are not available to composite GST businesses. This became a non-starter because the number of regular GST businesses was too small to be viable.
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Climate Adaptation
- Water Pressure supported the HUF-SAMUHA partnership to present its experiences on water savings in canal irrigated paddy to the drafting committee for the new National Water Policy on 23.12.2019.
- SAMUHA presentation-i to the Drafting Committee for the new National Water Policy on behalf of the Water Practitioners Network
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– Power Point
– SAMUHA Action Research on FIC – DCS – 2017-18
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