Samava Consultancy

Samava

Mobilising the potential of rural Indians

SamaVA

A digital community of rural Indians across 20 states, that connects them to short-term digital opportunities.

In 2021, recognising the significant increase of internet users across the country, Samava launched a digital community to connect thousands of people in rural India, tap into their pools of potential and bring them to the global stage.

In the past year, Samava has run operations in 81 districts across 21 states and UTs of India - in Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chattisgarh, Gujarat, Haryana and Delhi NCR, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Punjab and Chandigarh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and West Bengal.

By 2023, we are working to have operations running in every Indian states.

25,000 CONTRIBUTORS

The Samava Network

85 PARTNERS

84 DISTRICTS ACROSS 20 STATES

ANDHRA PRADESH

Krishna

Anantpur

Visakhapatnam

ASSAM

Dibrugarh

Urban and Rural Kamrup

Barpeta

Lakhimpur

BIHAR

Saran

East Champaran

Deoria

Darbhanga

Gaya

Lakhisarai

Kishanganj

Madhepura

Saharsa

Bhagalpur

CHATTISGARH

Bilaspur

Raigarh

Kabirdham

Srugja

GUJARAT

Ahmedabad

HARYANA AND DELHI-NCR

Gurugram

Delhi

KARNATAKA

Dakshin Kannada

Gulbarga

Dharwad

Bellary

Mysore

Mangalore

KERALA

Kasaragod

Kochi

Thiruvananthapuram

MADHYA PRADESH

Nagod

Jhansi

Sultanpur

Rewa

MAHARASHTRA

Sindhudurg

Nashik

Pune

Nagpur

Mumbai

ODISHA

Koraput

Mayurbhanj

Sambalpur

Puri

PUNJAB

Amritsar

Fatehgarh sahib

RAJASTHAN

Nagaur

Jodhpur

Jaisalmer

Jaipur

Ajmer

TAMIL NADU

Cuddalore

Theni

Chennai

Tiruneveli

TELANGANA

Karimnagar

Nalgonda

UTTAR PRADESH

Varanasi

Etah

Hamirpur

Muzaffarnagar

Kannauj

Mathura

Bundelkhand

UTTRAKHAND

Tehri Garhwal

WEST BENGAL

Dakshin Dinajpur

Bansberia

Malda

Mednipur

Jalpaigudi

Purulia

Kolkata

South 24 Parganas

Dimond Harbor

Sagar Island

Birbhum

Hooghly

Howrah

Murshidabad

Nadia

Paschin Burdawan

Purba Burdawan

Sodpur

Canning

How we Do It

NGO Partners

We work with Community Partners who work as our direct point of contacts in each of the districts. So far, we have formed a network of 83 grassroot level Non-profits from each of the communities we are working in.

On-Ground Mobilisers

Calcutta Foundation employs on-average 5 on-ground mobilisers from the community, who work closely with our team to lead local communications, support participants and ensure high quality work

Tech and Research Partners

We partner with Tech organisations like Microsoft, Navana Tech and Karya Inc. to that require different kinds of work and provide platforms for the work to be fulfilled and Research organisations like J-Pal South Asia, the Massachusetts Institute for Technology, and IIT-Madras to work with our communities.

The Samava Process

Samava Head-Office

A well-trained team with 2+ years of implementation and data-collection experience to manage, track and maintain high quality & swift timelines

-Training

-Monitoring

-Quality Control

-Timelines

Data Collection

On-ground Mobilizers

Contributors from across demographic profiles are recruited to contribute to diverse data sets. They are trained by the head office remotely and work directly with our head office & mobilizers through the process

Lead by our NGO rep, moblisers work with the head office to train, communicate with and track participants work

Validation

Language Consultants

All collected data goes through rigorous validation by highly trained validators from our network. This validation ensures quality of sound, accuracy, audibility and weed out disturbances

A team of 5-8 part-time experts in each language to ensure quality and authentic collection

Voice Tasks

Simple tasks to collect speech data that requires participants to read and record sentences in their local languages, allowing them to make on average of INR 750 for an hour of work.

This work has been given to people in Hindi, Bengali, Odiya, Marathi, Malayalam, Chattisgarhi, Maithili, Magahi, Bhojpuri, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Awadhi, Braj, Bagheli, Bundeli, Marwari, Assamese, Punjabi, and Gujarati.

Text Collection

Sentence Corpus Collection in local languages by employing experts across domains like healthcare, agriculture, entertainment, and Finance. Our team works to train participants in typing their local language, and using google forms to collect sentences that are converted into corpuses for speech collection.

Image Corpus and Labelling

Collecting different images and labelling parts of images different text, like Bengali letters from hoardings and billboards, text book pages, and newspaper articles.

Translation

Translation of sentence corpuses across languages, with specific interest in dialectal differences within languages to contextualise and increase relevance of sentences corpuses for our target populations. We have mobilised a team of translators for each of the 22 constitutionally recognized languages in India.

The Work we Give

Our Experience