- Ideated by Aditi Kim Karolil, Kabini Amin and Siddharth Agarwal
- Designed and created by Kabini Amin
- Supported by Agami India & Veditum India Foundation
Sand is the most extracted mineral in the world, and India mines over 1400 million tonnes of sand every year (Source 2020).
The river sand mining sector continues to deeply harm India’s ecological, social and financial interests. However there are no coordinated official or civil society efforts to address the issue at scale.
India Sand Watch
India Sand Watch is an environmental accountability project with an open-data platform at its heart. The platform is enabling collection, annotation & archiving of data related to sand mining in India.
The project with various partners is bringing together various layers of data, creating evidence for accountability, and building capacity for a variety of actors to enable positive action on this critical issue.
The journey map
With our friends at Agami, and Kabini Amin, an old friend of Veditum, a scroll was created to capture the journey of India Sand Watch and how it came into being. This scroll is available below.
There are a lot of details on the scroll and we invite you to open this up on a full page, zoom into see details, and read through the journey.
Some notes:
- We encourage you to share this page in your network. Use this link: https://veditum.org/iswstorymap/
- Republishing of this material in it’s totality is restricted and copyright is held by the publishers – Agami India & Veditum India Foundation
- Parts of this material (as may be covered in fair use) may be used for journalistic, academic, or other purposes with the following citation: “India Sand Watch Story Map, created by Kabini Amin, Agami India & Veditum India Foundation”
Contact details:
You can contact the people involved at the following email addresses:
- Aditi – aditi@agami.in
- Kabini – kabiniamin@gmail.com
- Siddharth – asid@veditum.org
