Dr Shankara Prasad

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Dr Shankara Prasad is Founder and Managing Trustee, Sampoorna Swaraj Foundation, a nonprofit focusing on implementing Information and Communications Technology (ICT) solutions at Gram Panchayats, to enable participatory democracy and facilitate accountable and transparent local self-governments. He has worked in the computer industry for more than 20 years with Intel, Bosch, and so on. He has an MTech from IIT, Kanpur and a PhD in engineering from State University of New York, Stony Brook.


Articles by Dr Shankara Prasad


A group of panelists_nonprofit humour

June 10, 2025
Post Schedule Testing

June 10, 2025
Missed Schedule Testing

January 31, 2024
लोककेंद्रित संस्था होण्याचे नऊ मार्ग
अंतर्गत प्रतीभेचे व्यवस्थापन ही सतत शिकण्याची आणि सुधारण्याची प्रक्रिया आहे. लोकांना अग्रस्थानी ठेवणारी संस्थात्मक संस्कृती तयार करण्यात मदत होइल अशा काही टिपा येथे दिल्या आहेत.
People standing in line getting their temperature checked by a person wearing a PPE kit-response to COVID-19 second wave

June 1, 2021
India’s COVID-19 response limited by strong urban and tech bias
India's response to the second wave of COVID-19 glosses over the lack of infrastructure and technology know-how in rural India.
doctor and patient as part of COVID-19 response

May 27, 2021
What can we learn from Jharkhand’s COVID-19 response?
Jharkhand has taken additional COVID-19 response protocols to curb the surge. Here are some implementation challenges and suggestions on a way forward.
A person holding a vaccine bottle and syringe-picture courtesy-Flickr

May 25, 2021
India’s COVID-19 vaccine drive is excluding millions of citizens
The government's recently published guidelines for vaccinating vulnerable groups are inadequate, and risk excluding the very people they are meant to benefit.
group of people standing in front of a wall which has a slogan about social distancing painted on it-NGOs

May 24, 2021
What can nonprofits do to tackle COVID-19 in central India?
The window of opportunity to stop preventable deaths is narrow, but doable. Here are some steps that nonprofits can take to tackle rising COVID-19 cases in Bihar, Jharkhand, and Madhya Pradesh.
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