CoRE Stack
Commoning for Resilience and Equality: A digital public infrastructure and tech stack for climate adaptation of rural communities.
A network-based approach to scale
A suite of interoperable tools
Built on a shared
infrastructure
Collaborative and decentralized usage
Support community projects, make impact
WHAT WE DO
An Alternative Vision of Tech Stacks for Communities
Tech stacks should be designed to be used and managed by communities to empower citizens, build resilience, and bring equality. This approach will ensure that the technologies are appropriate to the context, can be managed well, the goals are clear, and technologies are seen as enablers than a solution in themselves. [Read more]
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Customisable tools
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Curated Datasets
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Network of Collaborators
Essential Goals Of The CoRE Stack:
Commoning for Resilience and Equality
Improved awareness of communities about various pathways for resilience and development.
Scientific correctness in decision-making related to natural resources and commons management.
Improved solidarity in communities to collectively pursue these pathways.
Vitalised local community institutions to ensure equity and multi-stakeholder alignment along these pathways.
Join Us in Achieving Our Vision for Community-Based Digital Public Tech Stacks
Our community-based digital infrastructure for public technology stacks is a collaborative effort involving a network of partners, including academic institutions, environmental research organizations, social enterprises, and civil society organisations. In a Field -> Lab -> Field approach, use cases emerge from communities, and we build tools that can be put in their hands to empower them, rather than top-down tools meant for social control of communities.
Through this network, we aim to build and utilize a robust and inclusive digital ecosystem that benefits everyone in the community. Join us in our weekly dev calls for technical discussions and monthly community of practice calls for ecosystem needs and experience sharing.
Email us at: contact@core-stack.org
Latest Updates
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Launching coRE stack Tower Services
We are excited to announce the CoRE Stack Tower services. Supported by Tower Research Capital, this is a tower of…
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Strengthening Community-Led Data Governance: Reflections from CoRE Stack’s Community of Practice
Sep 2026 As the CoRE Stack ecosystem grows, so does the importance of ensuring that data generated with and by…
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Reflections from IndiaFOSS 2026: Thoughts for the CoRE stack
by Aaditeshwar Seth September 2026 When Sai Rahul Poruri first met me some years ago and told me about FOSS…
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Know Your Landscape (KYL) Enhancements: Strengthening Landscape Intelligence for Better Planning
Know Your Landscape (KYL) Enhancements: Strengthening Landscape Intelligence for Better Planning September 2026 Natural Resource Management (NRM) planning increasingly requires…
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Mission Antyodaya 2020 Data now on KYL
What 6 Lakh Indian Villages Tell Us About Rural Development Amit Kumar, CoRE Stack; Ananya Singh, IIT Delhi Research supervision:…
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Front page coverage in Dainik Bhaskar!
We are excited that the use of Commons Connect by PRADAN in Jharkhand was covered on the front page of…
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Mapping Soil Health Across India at 30 m Resolution Using Machine Learning
Author: Ratinder Pal Singh, MTech student, IIT Delhi Soil health is central to sustainable agriculture, fertilizer planning, and long-term crop…
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On highways and backroads of AI, and Perspectives on Commons Connect
After the earlier excellent blog by Anuradha Ganapathy where she introduced the pithy statement of more participation and less AI…
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CoRE Insights: From Landscape Data to Explainable Diagnosis Using a Neurosymbolic Approach
Authors: Aaditeshwar Seth, Shivani A. Mehta, Riti Verma, Immanuel Shadrach (IIT Delhi), with Cursor Composer Fast and Claude SonnetProject: CoRE…
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Towards Effective and Equitable Natural Resource Management: Field Stories on Commons Connect
Across rural India, communities depend on common lands, water resources, forests, and grazing areas for their livelihoods. Community representatives, also…
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Knowledge playlist: Water structures
Constructing a Continuous Contour Trench सतत समोच्च खाई का निर्माण Constructing a Water Absorption Trench जल अवशोषण खाई का निर्माण…
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Knowledge playlist: Watershed development
Water Security Agenda in the Age of Climate Change जलवायु परिवर्तन के युग में जल सुरक्षा एजेंडा Introduction to Watershed…
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Why the commons need community-led data
Aanchal Bansal Gandhi and Shreya Adhikari from IDR have written a fantastic article about the use of data in commons…
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PRADAN’s Use of Commons Connect & Integration with Yuktadhara
[Update] Watch this presentation by Kanad Ghosh from PRADAN about their experience of using Commons Connect to build community-based DPRs,…
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Validating Impact: Field Observations from Waterbody Rejuvenation in Madhya Pradesh
Validating Impact: Field Observations from Waterbody Rejuvenation in Madhya Pradesh Ramneek Kaur, Postdoctoral Fellow, ACT4D group, IIT Delhi 16 February,…
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CoRE Stack at the Participatory AI Research Symposium
CoRE Stack at the Participatory AI Research Symposium In the crazy week of February 16th this year when Delhi hosted…
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Innovation Challenge #2: Mining Insights from Events
Motivated by Google’s Groundsource project which identified urban flood events from news articles and used them as training data to…
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CoRE stack developer community
Update – April 2026: Check out the CoRE stack innovation challenge #2 on using geotagged news event datasets alongside geospatial…
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First round of Innovation Challenge Advances
We launched the CoRE stack innovation challenge on Nov 22, 2025, least expecting the tremendous participation we saw from students,…
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TESSERA and CoRE stack hackathon on Geospatial AI
The prolific Anil Madhavapeddy from the University of Cambridge, behind many key outputs including OCaml, Docker, Xen, among others, ran…
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Top-20 Finalists in the AI for ALL challenge: India AI Summit
We are delighted that the CoRE stack was selected among the top-20 finalists in the AI for ALL challenge organized…
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More Participation, Less “AI”
Deeply reflective blog by Anuradha Ganapathy from her field visits to observe Commons Connect deployments with partners Foundation For Ecological…
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Solving Landscapes together: Reflections from the 2nd solvability workshop, Dec 2025
The second CoRE stack landscape solvability workshop held at IIT Delhi from Dec 15-17 brought together 80+ people from over…
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Tracker for protected areas
To accompany the CoRE stack innovation challenge, we have developed an app on Google Earth Engine which combines news articles on protected…
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Understanding water flow for river rejuvenation
To accompany the CoRE stack innovation challenge, we have enhanced the starter-kit with an example of combining data from the…
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A micro-watershed registry for India
Climate scientists recognized a while back about the importance of coming up with a standardized Earth System grid. Today most…
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Stories from the ground from Commons Connect usage
Can data-driven planning lead to a participatory and accountable approach to natural resource governance? Reflections from Ajmal, SUPPORT (Jharkhand) Hear…
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Towards data-driven and community-centered water governance
Participatory planning procedures are a cornerstone of rural development initiatives, particularly those related to natural resource management. By centering voices…
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CoRE stack starter-kit for geospatial programming
To accompany the innovation challenge (main doc with example problems), we have built a starter-kit that shows how you can…
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The CoRE stack data structure
To accompany the innovation challenge (main doc with example problems), this ER diagram helpfully generated by Claude.ai (see chat) will…
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CoRE Stack Innovation Challenge on geospatial programming – 1st edition
Feb 23, 2026: Three contributions have advanced to the next stage of follow-on support to enhance the PoCs into a…
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Ecological restoration toolkit: Bioacoustics Analysis pipelines
Connected to our work on continuous ecological monitoring, we set up bioacoustics recorders at four sites in Delhi to continuously…
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Building Reproducible Geospatial Pipelines: A STAC Extension with DAG’s
Making Sense of Geospatial Data Workflows: Introducing STACD Working with geospatial data is like cooking a complex meal with many…
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RNE workshop: Digital Tools for Restoration
Update, Nov 19, 2025: As a follow-up from the workshop, we have put together this living database of useful tools…
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Continuous Ecological Monitoring
Continuous Ecological Monitoring Toolkit Field data collection sounds simple in theory: go out, observe things, record what you find. In…
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A Bottom-Up Approach to Identifying Ecological Restoration Sites with the CoRE Stack Toolkit
Authors: Apoorva Dewan, Ojasvi Bansal, Raman Kumar, and Aaditeshwar Seth Ecological restoration is a complex process that requires a deep…
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CoRE stack ecosystem of co-creators and users
The CoRE stack is now in its fourth year (hard to believe!) and has been shaped and built with a…
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Contribute datasets, pipelines, and tools
All CoRE stack code, datasets, technical methodology documents, research papers, etc. are published in the open [github repo, deep-wiki documentation]….
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CoRE stack: Community of Practice
To take forward this exciting journey of co-creating the CoRE stack, we are launching monthly Community of Practice (CoP) meetings…
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Early Lessons from Commons Connect Pilots
Published: July 2025 How can digital tools strengthen local planning and ensure that the voices of rural communities shape their…
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CoRE stack in the news
The Indian Express recently published an interview of Aaditeshwar Seth, co-founder and research/engineering lead of the CoRE stack, and covered…
We’re On a Mission to Bring Big Changes.
Our bottom-up approach prioritises the community and strives to build awareness, sustainability and equity.
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