This effort aims to collect and aggregate biodiversity data from diverse sources on to a single platform with simple and intuitive visualization, navigation and querying tools. The platform will be built on the open source ‘biodiv’ technology with a microservice architecture with latest technologies and ‘mobile first’ interfaces. It will be built for scale and for aggregating, handling and serving ‘big data’ on biodiversity.

The project will be building a MedPlant site aggregating information available with TDU as well at the India Biodiversity Portal. It will detail medicinal plants, their biology and distribution; and medicinal uses for human, animal and plant health. It will leverage local health traditions to build local level health security in communities across India.

A lot of public health data is published by central and state governments. These are in silos and normally in diverse formats that do not allow easy access and integration.

The HHM platform will aggregate public health information and build indicators of health based on various national and international metrics which in turn are based on a generalized Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) framework. It will allow easy exploration and comparison of the indicators on a map and is intended to generate awareness on the quality, availability and use of public health data for planning and action. The beta version is available at : Health Heatmap Of India

Scant knowledge of its distribution, population status, and ecology has constrained the assessment of the conservation status of this species, in turn affecting conservation action.

This projectaims to build a long-term conservation strategy for this and other amphibian species by developing local capacity for amphibian surveys and monitoring, and assess the conservation status of this species. The project includes field level workshops and awareness programmes, complemented by field surveys conducted by citizen scientists to collect information on the distribution and ecology of this species, and to make this data available in the public domain through the India Biodiversity Portal. We expect that this project will pave the way for further citizen-science based projects especially for amphibian conservation in India.