Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham entered into a collaborative MoU with ESRI India to set up a center for geoinformatics in spatial analysis and modeling on Dec 26, 2020. The center will be set up under the aegis of Amrita School for Sustainable Futures, Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications, UNESCO Chair on Experiential Learning for Sustainable Innovation & Development And UNESCO Chair on Center for Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality.
Dr. Venkat Rangan, Vice-Chancellor, Amrita Vishwa Vidhypeetham and Mr. Agendra Kumar, President, ESRI India Technologies Pvt. Ltd signed the MoU on behalf of their respective organisations.
Establish a Centre of Excellence
Centre for Geoinformatics and Spatial Analytics & Modelling with dedicated research, development and test facilities
Capacity Building Initiatives
Workshops, webinars, hackathons in the area of GIS, Spatial Information Technology, Remote Sensing, AI/ML etc
Certificate Courses
Short-term courses that goes beyond industry requirements in various areas
Internship Programs
Internship opportunities for Bachelors, Masters and PhD students
ESRI Technology for Sustainable Development
Utilise ESRI technologies into Amrita’s Flagship program, Live-in-Labs® in various thematic areas
Academic Programs
Development and enhancement of curriculum for various academic programs
Health and Hygiene
Water and Sanitation
Agriculture and Risk Management
Energy and Environment
Waste Management and Infrastructure
Education and Gender Equality
Livelihood and Skill Development
Utilising Geospatial Technologies for transforming the attitude of society
to perceive WATER as OURs rather than MINE
To make water sustainability a reality for communities across rural India, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s School for Sustainable Futures and UNESCO Chair on Experiential learning and ESRI, India jointly launched the initiative Mera Gaav, Hamara Jal ( “My Village, Our Water”). This initiative aims to bring in a transformational change to perceive WATER as OURs rather than MINE by transforming the attitude of society to view water as a community resource rather than as a personal resource. This is achieved by empowering community members, water-wise communities will be sprouted to achieve community-scale implementation of UN SDG 6 targets. The program acts as a Unified Monitoring and GIS data governance platform for water-related projects.
Through the Mera Gaav, Hamara Jal initiative, communities will be trained and empowered to map & monitor the resources, map water quality, practices prevalent in the community, livelihood activities, drainage mapping, weather variability, and climate impacts. This extensive crowd-sourced data will provide the opportunity to derive the water sustainability challenges in each of the communities. Along with this, it will equip the local administration, community organisations, and individuals to develop strategies for water conservation, optimise water usage, develop restoration of water resources, and build awareness of short and long-term impacts.
The data is collected through a crowd-sourced app called Empower Community App built by Amrita, which is used to monitor & track the progress of community members, Imparts online training & coordinates various development activities, and Enables daily reporting & virtual interactions. The data is visualised through ESRI’s ArcGIS Online platform tools: Web map and Dashboard.
Villages
Communities
Current Presence
Kerala, Odisha, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Andhra Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, and Gujarat.
Vice Chancellor
Provost, Dean, School for Sustainable Futures, UNESCO Chair on Experiential Learning for Sustainable Innovation and Development.
Assistant Professor
Managing Director
ESRI India
