Srinivas Alavilli

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Srinivas is a Fellow in WRI India where he works on creating sustainable transport solutions and improving road safety. Srinivas drives the #Personal2Public, a nudge campaign to get people to switch to public transport from personal vehicles at least twice a week. Working with government agencies, civil society groups and corporates, Srinivas and team are trying to address the integration challenges and last mile gaps to make public transport reliable, affordable and safer.

Srinivas was a software engineer with over two decades of experience working on enterprise software product design and development with Sun Microsystems and Oracle in California and in Bengaluru. Srinivas was actively involved in various citizen movements and local governance after moving to Bengaluru. As a co-founder of Citizens for Bengaluru, Srinivas was instrumental in creating public awareness and policy changes via various campaigns #SteelFlyoverBeda #ChukuBukuBeku #BusBhagyaBeku that promoted sustainable mobility in the city of Bengaluru. As a strong advocate of empowered local government and citizen participation, Srinivas worked on reviving Ward Committees in Bengaluru.

Srinivas was Head of Civic Participation, Civic Technology in Janaagraha. During his stint with Janaagraha, Srinivas worked on Jaga Mission in Odisha, a slum transformation initiative that formalized slum dweller participation in local governance via the SDA (Slum Dweller Association) and helped create Ward Samiti Balaga, a coalition of citizens across Karnataka and led the Swachhata tech platform as part of Swachh Bharat Mission of Government of India.

Srinivas has a Master’s in Computer Science from Utah State University, USA and a B.Tech in Computer Science from Andhra University.

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