Since 2015, we have built the technology that funders, nonprofits, and governments run their programmes on.
A quick look at what we build, who we work with, and how we work.
The idea took shape at the Institute of Rural Management Anand between 2012 and 2014. Sunandan Madan and Swapnil Agarwal formally founded Dhwani Rural Information Systems in 2015.
Field teams were stuck with paper and spreadsheets. Funders could not see what was happening. Governments were running population-scale programmes on tools that could not keep up.
So we built software specifically for the impact sector, with people who have spent their careers in it. Field data apps that work offline. Dashboards funders actually use. Grant and donor systems, MIS, and the consulting to make it all land.
A decade on, that work runs across 10 countries and 200+ organisations, and it is held to ISO 27001, Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) and GDPR standards.
*Reach: people whose data, services or entitlements run on Dhwani-built platforms; not direct beneficiaries. Outcomes belong to our partners.
Much of what we build sits on Frappe, the open-source low-code framework behind ERPNext, not a closed, proprietary stack we control alone.
We think the impact sector is better served by open, inspectable technology than by vendor lock-in. Where we can, we contribute back, through code, documentation, and by helping the developers who extend these tools.
Delivery teams in India, and programme work in nine other countries across Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas.
Founded in 2015 by Sunandan Madan and Swapnil Agarwal.
Engineers, programme managers and product people, most of whom have spent their careers in this sector.
We are always looking for people who want to build technology that matters. Engineering, product and delivery roles.
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