eGovernments Foundation (eGov) was founded in 2003, as a collective of world-class technologists, strategists, and policy professionals with a commitment to solving India’s societal challenges. eGov plays the role of a trusted advisor and enabler of state leadership by collaborating with all actors in the ecosystem including policy advisors, technology, and civic tech partners to implement their urban transformation programs. It also co-creates digital public goods that seek to catalyse achievement of SDGs & enhance ease of living for all in the Global South. xKDR is a Section 8 company founded by Susan Thomas and Ajay Shah in March 2021, with an advisory board of Justice B.N Srikrishna, Vijay Kelkar and KP Krishnan. With a view to making progress on the great problems of the world, xKDR focuses on building knowledge and community, on all links of the chain from ideas to action. Adopting an interdisciplinary and ethnographic approach, xKDR carries out research in a number of areas inc