Status: activeType: 🏛️ civic techCountry: India Website: www.janaagraha.org

Status	active
Type	🏛️ civic tech
Country	India
Website	www.janaagraha.org
Contact	info@janaagraha.org
RSS feed	www.janaagraha.org/feed
Concepts	E Government Direct Democracy Accountability Sink
Last activity	2026-07-16 dod Website loaded directly; Urban Conclave event scheduled for March 18, 2026 and site actively promoting current programs

Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy

Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy was founded in December 2001 by Swati and Ramesh Ramanathan in Bangalore. It works to strengthen the relationship between urban citizens and local government, with a focus on ward-level democratic participation and municipal transparency.

Key programs

• I Change My City (ICMyC) — civic participation platform (launched 2012) for citizens to report local issues, collaborate on solutions, and track government responses; includes geo-mapping and complaint voting
• Swachhata Technology Platform — built on ICMyC and deployed by India's Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs across 4,000+ cities for citizen-government communication
• Ward Sabha strengthening — programs to improve the effectiveness of local democratic institutions
• Civic learning — youth engagement in civic responsibility and democratic participation

Links

• Website: janaagraha.org

See also

• E-Government
• Direct Democracy
• Accountability Sink

History

• 2001-01-01 Founded by Ramesh and Swati Ramanathan to improve urban governance and citizen participation in IndiaFounding of the organisation
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  Founded in 2001 by Ramesh Ramanathan and Swati Ramanathan

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• 2012-07-22 Launched I Change My City (ICMyC), a civic-participation platform for reporting and tracking local issuesFlagship civic-tech platform launch
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  Since its inception in Bangalore in 2012, ICMyC has helped in addressing problems like garbage disposal, poor road conditions, street safety and security related issues.

  Exact launch date (22 July 2012) per earlier web-search corroboration; the org's own page confirms only the year. ICMyC went on to underpin the Swachhata Technology Platform, later adopted by India's Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs across 4,000+ cities.

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