27) CoAST India Platform Flashcards
What does CoAST stand for ?
Collaboration/ Covid Action Support Group
Who has developed this platform ?
India Observatory
What is this platform about ?
It is a GIS enabled dashboard that includes an India map reflecting the movement of migrants in real time on their long journeys, along with facilities and relief organisations on their routes
Under whose collaboration does this function ?
Anand based Forest Ecological Security (FES) as its main nodal point
Details of India Observatory ?
1) It is India’s 1st socio economic and ecological open source integrated Geospatial platform
2) Designed to supplement village level decision making through communities, NGOs and officials
3) Its core is an “India Data Platform” which is an open source data collection on parameters like graphs, maps, tables and infographics
4) Freely available
