This session will focus on insights from our journey of co-creating OpenBudgetsIndia - a collective initiative working to build a comprehensive and user-friendly open data portal that is making India’s budgets open, usable and easy to comprehend. Discussing our challenges, approach, partnerships and processes to bring together a diverse set of organizations, communities and volunteers. Moreover explaining some of the best practices we followed to open up our code, data, design, documentation, research and visualizations for wider participation and collaboration. Summing up our lessons as the essential ingredients of co-creating an open data collaborative.