Technology

To ensure that untapped talent can build social capital, Salesforce is providing a holistic support to school and high school students with better access to quality education and career counselling platforms.

Co-founded by Prabhdeep Singh, medical startup StanPlus offers a 15-mins ambulance delivery service to patients and even operates its own fleet of Advanced Life Support (ALS) ambulances.

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.