{
  "version": "v1.1.0",
  "entity": {
    "type": "individual",
    "role": "owner",
    "name": "Sundaresh Prasanna Chandran",
    "email": "sundareshchandran@gmail.com",
    "description": "Chennai-based software engineer building open-source civic technology. Sole maintainer of Neer Vazhvu, an open-source water intelligence platform cited in Indian media (DT Next, April 2026) for its integrated analysis of Chennai's water crisis.",
    "webpageUrl": {
      "url": "https://neervazhvu.org"
    }
  },
  "projects": [
    {
      "guid": "neer-vazhvu",
      "name": "Neer Vazhvu",
      "description": "Open-source water intelligence platform for Chennai. Integrates 20+ public data sources (reservoirs, groundwater, river water quality, flood risk, stormwater drains, sewerage, water bodies, satellite imagery) into ward-level decision support for all 200 wards and 11 million residents. Produces four computed intelligence layers unavailable elsewhere in India: daily composite water risk scores for every ward, restoration priority rankings for 1,787 water bodies, ward governance report cards (A-F grades across 5 metrics), and an interactive budget uplift planner that answers 'if I have X crore for my ward, where should I invest?'. Runs an automated daily pipeline on free/open infrastructure (Vercel, Supabase, Railway, Google Earth Engine). Featured in DT Next (April 2026) for platform-sourced findings on untreated sewage discharge and groundwater deficit. Fully documented methodology, MIT-licensed, designed for multi-city replication - a digital commons layer for urban water governance in India.",
      "webpageUrl": {
        "url": "https://neervazhvu.org"
      },
      "repositoryUrl": {
        "url": "https://github.com/SundareshPrasanna/neer-vazhvu"
      },
      "licenses": [
        "spdx:MIT"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "civic-tech",
        "digital-commons",
        "open-data",
        "water",
        "climate",
        "governance",
        "india",
        "chennai",
        "satellite",
        "tamil"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    "channels": [
      {
        "guid": "github-sponsors",
        "type": "payment-provider",
        "address": "https://github.com/sponsors/SundareshPrasanna",
        "description": "GitHub Sponsors - individual and organisational sponsorships"
      },
      {
        "guid": "grants",
        "type": "other",
        "description": "Grants and institutional funding for dedicated development, multi-city expansion, and community engagement"
      }
    ],
    "plans": [
      {
        "guid": "dedicated-development",
        "status": "active",
        "name": "Dedicated maintainer time (12 months)",
        "description": "Fund 12 months of dedicated maintainer time, shifting from evenings-and-weekends to substantial part-time commitment. Deliverables: integrate 8 additional government data sources identified but not yet wired in, expand satellite water body monitoring from 150 to 500+ bodies, ship a public API with rate-limited free tier for researchers and journalists, and publish quarterly community updates documenting methodology and findings.",
        "amount": 800000,
        "currency": "INR",
        "frequency": "one-time",
        "channels": [
          "grants"
        ]
      },
      {
        "guid": "multi-city",
        "status": "active",
        "name": "Second-city deployment (Bengaluru)",
        "description": "Fund data source research, scraper development, boundary and water-body localisation, and local validation for a Bengaluru deployment. Bengaluru is selected for its severe ongoing water crisis, active civic-tech community, and recent $426M World Bank water project. Deployment will prove the framework's replicability and produce a template for further Indian cities. Separable from dedicated development above - useful as a co-funded component with other funders.",
        "amount": 300000,
        "currency": "INR",
        "frequency": "one-time",
        "channels": [
          "grants"
        ]
      },
      {
        "guid": "infrastructure",
        "status": "active",
        "name": "Infrastructure sustenance",
        "description": "Ongoing running costs currently covered out-of-pocket: AI API calls for city and ward narratives, domain renewal, and cloud infrastructure when traffic exceeds free tiers (Vercel, Supabase, Railway, Google Earth Engine compute). Small but continuous need; suitable for GitHub Sponsors.",
        "amount": 10,
        "currency": "USD",
        "frequency": "monthly",
        "channels": [
          "github-sponsors"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "history": [
      {
        "year": 2026,
        "income": 0,
        "expenses": 100,
        "taxes": 0,
        "currency": "USD",
        "description": "Self-funded to date. All infrastructure costs absorbed by maintainer. No grants or institutional funding received yet."
      }
    ]
  }
}