Kelvin Campbell talks to Darshana Gothi Chauhan, founder and CEO of Co-Plug, - architect, urban designer and urban data analytics expert with 14 years of experience of working in the public, private and academic sector linked to the planning and designing of cities.

 Darshana founded the DesTech Challenge, a unique design and tech competition that brings together creative thinking and digital advancements in the built environment sector. The competition has an outreach of over 200 colleges and universities in South Asia and has helped to upskill students from over 40+ colleges in spatial data analytics. The challenge, supported by the WorldLabs platform has helped to crowdsource geospatial data of open spaces of over 35 cities in South Asia to support the development of data driven design and technical solutions for the planning of healthy cities.