2 min readDec 25, 2020
Merry Christmas – thanks for helping me go through 2020.
Merry Christmas Everyone.
This year has been a unique and a hard one for all of us due to pandemic.
But, my time this year in Reap Benefit has been remarkable one. Thanks to everyone.
- What started off as a dashboard to help citizens find information and to help people in need at hyper local level – in the month of April.
- 2. It emerges into a beautiful community of local problem solvers who care and want to solve with collaborative spirit for problems around them.
- 3. The community is young with about 1500 young people across the country taking local actions.
- 4. With Pandemic pushing us out of our comfort zone and need to be creative. To help build a movement of young local problem solvers we have launched our whats app based chatbot in the month of July.
- 5. Currently, we have about 13000+ users who are mobilised with the chatbot out of which around 25% have taken successful problem solving action.
- 6. During this phase, we along focused on building India’s first open civic platform which consist of, 1. Chatbot 2. Webapp 3. Forum
- 7. The platform is envisioned as a societal platform for anyone to use to leverage their work with citizens movement.
- 8. Our civic forum has been completely led by our young community who drive deeper discussions around policy, local solutions and local citizen engagements, etc.,
- 9. I am glad at a personal level I was able to get back and leverage on my belief of digital tools acting as a tool for empowerment.
Looking forward to an another year of building this movement of young people using technology as a leveraging tool along with a mission aligned team Reap Benefit and thousands of young people aspiring to do their little part in brining a change at neighbourhood level.