About this platform
Who runs this platform?
This platform is run by the Oorvani Foundation, the trust that also operates Open City.
We're not affiliated with any candidate, party, or government body. This platform exists to give Bengaluru citizens neutral, sourced, ward-level information ahead of the GBA corporator elections — nothing more, nothing less.
How is data sourced and verified?
Candidate information — criminal record, assets, education, ward track record — is drawn primarily from candidates' own sworn affidavits filed with the Election Commission, which are public record. Where affidavit data is extracted or summarised with AI assistance, it's marked as AI-extracted until a trained data curator has reviewed and confirmed it.
Every field you see on a candidate's page carries a visible source — so you can always tell whether something comes from an official affidavit or from curator-compiled context, and where to find the original document. Curators are trusted volunteers with local knowledge, scoped to specific wards or a zone; their edits go live immediately, but every change is recorded in an audit log that supports rollback if something needs correcting.
If you spot something wrong, you can flag it from any candidate page — flagging is open to everyone, in any ward, no account needed to raise a flag, though we ask you to sign in before it's submitted so we can follow up if we need more detail.
Our neutrality stance
We don't endorse or oppose any candidate, party, or position. Candidates are presented side by side, with the same fields and the same sourcing standard applied to everyone. Ward issues are defined by local curators from resident input, not by us, and issue-voting results are shown to everyone, not just the people who voted.
Who funds this platform?
What do you do with my data?
In short: we don't sell it, and we don't hand it to anyone except the handful of service providers that keep the platform running — under contract, on our behalf, never for their own purposes. Contact details you give us (email or phone) are used for two things only: election updates for your registered ward, and critical, service-affecting product notices. They are never used to market anything else, and never sold. The full breakdown of what's collected, who processes it, and your rights over it lives on our privacy policy.
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Want to help?
If you'd like to spread the word in your neighbourhood, or take on the accuracy of your ward's data as a curator, see partner with us.