Technology

Facebook Pragati is a unique initiative, carefully crafted to address the concerns faced by women entrepreneurs. The program assists in incubating and accelerating early-stage women-led nonprofits that are working in the areas of women entrepreneurship.

Remote monitoring of COVID-19 protocols to ensuring accessible navigation for the visually-impaired, all these innovations started with one big idea, that eventually with right guidance and research evolved into products that have the potential to change the world.

Tech Burner, founded by Delhi-based Shlok Srivastava, is a YouTube channel dedicated to consumer technology, with a reach of 50 million viewers a month. But he recounts how his life would've been vastly different if he had chosen the IIT path.

Two decades after moving away from home, Shaloo Jeswani, an NRI based in the US, has been helping families in India not just financially but also by being a mentor to them.

Using a NASA technology, Gujarat's Jha family from has built a novel physiotherapy device that treats wounds, fractures and paraplegia in animals at a lesser cost and in lesser time.

In the water-stressed district of Puducherry, IAS officer Dr T Arun developed Neer Padhivu, a mobile app through which he launched a water conservation project to revive lakes, ponds and canals.

Coviself, a home testing kit for COVID-19, is being manufactured by a Pune-based company and will be available across pharmacies in India in the coming week.

These NGOs are harnessing the power of technology to bring about widespread sustainable impact on our educators and students.

“For a girl in a village, access to technology education can open up a world of opportunities--enabling social mobility, improved gender equality, and a chance to break out of the cycle of poverty,” says one of these brilliant changemakers.

These are just a few examples of the kind of impact NASSCOM’s BigTech program has driven in association with several donor companies.