Invite to India Civic Summit - Saturday 14th Feb, Chennai

[Meera K]

Attn: Civic groups / CBOs / CSOs working on urban issues

The India Civic Summit (ICS) is back for its 2026 edition, a day-long gathering of active citizens, civic practitioners, community leaders, changemakers, and experts who care about making our cities work better for everyone.

Theme (2026): Citizens and Urban Governance
IITM Research Park, Taramani, Chennai

Saturday, 14 February 2026

ICS is designed to be practical and energising with curated talks, panels, workshops, and interactive formats that help us learn what’s working, share tools, and build real collaboration across cities.

What you can look forward to:

• Inside the city government: how tech, data, and processes shape urban governance

• Hands-on civic engagement tools you can use in your neighbourhood

• Interactive sessions like Design Your Ward (a democracy-in-action simulation)

• Networking with people working across issues and cities

• Citizen Matters Spotlight, celebrating citizen-led initiatives creating change

Register here: https://oorvani.org/civic-summit

If you’ve been looking for a space to connect, learn, and leave with actionable ideas (and new collaborators), ICS 2026 is for you.

About us

At Oorvani Foundation, we connect people who want better cities with civic information, tools, networks and resources they need to make it happen. We centre the demand for better cities and empower communities to enable change. Our initiatives include citizenmatters.in -- a knowledge platform with insightful artifacts on crucial urban issues, ideas, best practices, solutions, opencity.in -- India’s leading civic-tech & urban data commons and community and Civic Learning Hub: Courses, workshops, datajams and other programmes for communities to learn, engage and act. 

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