Who we are

Liberation Technology, a.k.a LibTech India is a team of engineers, social workers, and social scientists who, inspired by the Right to Information movement and the idea of social audits, focus on various aspects of improving transparency, accountability, and democratic engagement in rural public services delivery.

LibTech is a centre at Collaborative Research and Dissemination (CORD), New Delhi.

What we do

Using a rights-based framework, we have worked on different policies, trying to make them transparent and disseminating data about them to those who can use the information to make the state accountable to them. Our focus has been NREGA, but we have also worked on PDS, RTI, and entitlements like pensions and maternity entitlements. We work closely in small geographies to understand processes in public service delivery, and we draw upon field insights for research and policy advocacy work.

LibTech in the News

OP-Ed by Lib Tech India team in ‘The Hindu’ on exclusions in Rythu Bharosa cash transfer in AP. (Dt: 5th Jan 2022)

A thread of the entire media coverage of the report, including pieces in The Indian Express, Business Standard, Times of India, National Herald, Gaon Connection, and more.

Jean Drèze writes about our study ‘Length of the Last Mile’

Telegraph highlights Sabhil’s work on NREGA in Jharkhand

Op-Ed in Andhra Jyothi by Chakradhar Buddha, Naveen Kumar Gajjalagari, and Ajay Palle swaero on the problem of low NREGA wages in Telugu states. (Dt: 5th Jan 2022)