Impact
This page tracks what we're doing outside our walls — in Guwahati, across Assam and the Northeast, and on the wider internet. Most impact pages freeze in time: a number from three years ago with no footnote on what happened since. This one doesn't. Every entry below has a current status, a last-verified date, and an honest note when something has slipped.
HOW_TO_READ
No claim on this page is older than its review cadence. If it is, we mark it STALE. If something regressed, we say so — and why.
- SUSTAINED — verified recently, still holds
- ACTIVE — ongoing, currently maintained
- AT_RISK — trajectory is slipping, needs attention
- REGRESSED — the gain was lost; see note for why
- ARCHIVED — initiative ended cleanly, kept as history
Needs action now
- Government website accessibility tracker — Assam REGRESSED
Auditing and publishing the state of Assam's government websites so broken public services become visible rather than invisible.
@ Assam state government web infrastructure
- Open directory of Guwahati small businesses AT_RISK
A community-maintained directory of local shops, tradespeople, and services — free, searchable, without advertising games.
@ Guwahati (city-wide)
By the numbers
Each tile shows its own last-updated date. No context-free numbers.
TRACKED
5
2026-04-18
SUSTAINED
2
2026-04-18
AT_RISK
1
2026-04-18
REGRESSED
1
2026-04-18
Tracked impacts
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Open directory of Guwahati small businesses
AT_RISKA community-maintained directory of local shops, tradespeople, and services — free, searchable, without advertising games.
- LOCATION
- Guwahati (city-wide)
- LAST_VERIFIED
- 2026-03-20
- CADENCE
- monthly
- AGE
- 29d
- Listings: ~520
- Verified in last 90 days: declining
- Ward coverage: 11 / 31
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Government website accessibility tracker — Assam
REGRESSEDAuditing and publishing the state of Assam's government websites so broken public services become visible rather than invisible.
- LOCATION
- Assam state government web infrastructure
- LAST_VERIFIED
- 2026-04-01
- CADENCE
- monthly
- AGE
- 17d
- Sites under monitor: 38
- Audit reports last 90 days: 0
- Previous steady cadence: 1 per site / month
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Civic discourse archive — Guwahati
ACTIVECapturing how local civic decisions actually get made — meetings, notices, budgets — so future residents have a record to work from.
- LOCATION
- Guwahati Municipal Corporation jurisdiction
- LAST_VERIFIED
- 2026-04-05
- CADENCE
- monthly
- AGE
- 13d
- Public notices archived: 134
- Ward-level meeting notes: 22
- Budget documents OCR'd and indexed: 8
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Brahmaputra riverbank cleanup & waste logging
SUSTAINEDNeighbourhood cleanups along the Brahmaputra, with waste categorised and logged so the data becomes useful to planners and researchers.
- LOCATION
- Brahmaputra riverbank — Guwahati stretches
- LAST_VERIFIED
- 2026-04-12
- CADENCE
- quarterly
- AGE
- 6d
- Waste collected: ~1,840 kg
- Cleanup sessions: 26
- Plastic categorised for recycling: ~610 kg
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Wikipedia coverage of Guwahati
SUSTAINEDClosing gaps in how Guwahati is represented on the open web — articles, photos, references, and local sourcing.
- LOCATION
- Wikipedia (English + Assamese)
- LAST_VERIFIED
- 2026-04-10
- CADENCE
- quarterly
- AGE
- 8d
- Articles created or expanded: 47
- Photos uploaded to Commons: 312
- Citations added from local sources: 180+
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No impacts with that status.
Regressions & lessons
Making failure visible is how this ledger stays credible. If it's on this page and it slipped, it's here too — with an honest account of why.
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Government website accessibility tracker — Assam
regressed on 2026-02-15 @ Assam state government web infrastructure
Auditing and publishing the state of Assam's government websites so broken public services become visible rather than invisible.
Review log
A record of each sweep so you can see this ledger is actually tended.
- 2026-Q1 — 5 items swept, 1 moved to AT_RISK, 1 REGRESSED, onboarding recovery plan drafted.
- 2025-Q4 — 4 items swept, all SUSTAINED or ACTIVE.
Measuring what matters
We track what we can count, but we care about what we can't. Impact here isn't only output — it's belonging, agency, and the slow work of making a place where people want to return. The ledger above is the boring, honest half of that story.