Access to learning opportunities
for every child
The lack of access to learning opportunities is a complex and multidimensional problem. It impacts the lives of millions of children on a daily basis. In response, Nandan Nilekani, Rohini Nilekani and Shankar Maruwada co-founded EkStep, a not-for-profit initiative to gather partners on a universal, collaborative platform to reimagine learning opportunities for every child.
THE EKSTEP MODEL
Contextualized Learning
on a Modular Platform
EkStep is a utility; an enabler. Our layered, modular platform allows for the co-creation of solutions that are of non-linear, agile and scalable. It amplifies the impact of the current educational ecosystem through partner networking.
- Application for learner to use
- Portal for ecosystem
Content Repository, publishing tools and analytics
Concept maps,teaching methods, language models and analytics
Open tech platform with API's
PEOPLE
Nandan Nilekani
Nandan Nilekani is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Infosys Technologies
Ltd.
He was the Founding Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority
of India (UIDAI) in the rank of a Cabinet Minister from 2009- 2014. Most
recently, Nandan has co-founded and is the Chairman of EkStep, a not-for-
profit effort to create a learner centric, technology based platform to improve
basic literacy and numeracy for millions of children.
Born in Bengaluru, Nilekani received his Bachelor’s degree from IIT, Bombay. Fortune Magazine conferred him with “Asia’s Businessman of the year 2003”. In 2005 he received the prestigious Joseph Schumpeter prize for innovative services in economy, economic sciences and politics.
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Rohini Nilekani
Rohini Nilekani is the Co-founder and Director of EkStep Foundation. Rohini has pursued passionately her interest in education by co-founding and supporting several initiatives in the field of education over the past 15 years. In 2004, she co-founded and funded Pratham Books, a non-profit children’s publisher, which aims to democratize the joy of reading with ‘a book in every child’s hands’.
In 2017, she was inducted as Foreign Honorary Member of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is on the Eminent Persons Advisory Group of the Competition Commission of India. Between 2010 and 2012, she was a member of the Audit Advisory Board of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.
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Shankar Maruwada
Shankar Maruwada is the CEO and Co-founder of EkStep. Shankar is passionate about addressing social problems at scale through technology based tools. He is an entrepreneur and marketing professional with a wide range of experience working on large scale projects such as the AADHAAR, India’s national identification program, where he was the Head of Demand Generation and Marketing.
Shankar pioneered data analytics in India through, Marketics, a company he co-founded. He is an investor in startups and a mentor to entrepreneurs. He is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad and Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur.