About
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Headquarters
Bangalore, Karnataka
EkStep Foundation was established in collaboration with the team that played a crucial role in developing the Aadhaar project. The Foundation's primar Read morey objective is to address the intricate issue of limited learning opportunities faced by millions of children in India. To achieve this, it aims to provide a collaborative and universal platform that facilitates the creation and consumption of educational content. Through its ambitious initiative called Mission EkStep, the Foundation endeavours to enhance access to learning opportunities and improve literacy and numeracy skills for 200 million children in India. To support this mission, it has developed Sunbird as an open digital infrastructure and adopted the concept of Societal Platform thinking. It is dedicated to tackling this challenge on a large scale and positively impacting the lives of countless children by expanding their educational horizons.
Demographies Served
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Impact
EkStep Foundation strives to enhance literacy and numeracy levels by expanding access to learning opportunities for 200 million children in India.
Programs
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Sunbird Decentralized Skilling & Education Protocol (DSEP)
Sunbird Decentralized Skilling & Education Protocol (DSEP) is an open and interoperable specification that facilitates the creation of a network of solutions. Its purpose is to enable the smooth identification of opportunities and establish trust in transactions, thereby facilitating effortless skill development, deployment, and associated supply-chain activities. DSEP empowers adopters to establish decentralized networks for skills and education, utilizing the core specifications of the beckn protocol, while incorporating additional taxonomies and sample network policies specifically tailored for the skills and education sector.
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Sunbird Knowlg
Sunbird Knowlg offers a versatile solution for effectively managing extensive asset collections using a flexible hierarchical organisational framework. By applying multiple tags on various frameworks, assets gain valuable metadata, facilitating effortless discovery based on user preferences. For instance, QR codes can connect physical materials to digital assets. Knowlg provides customizable tools and microservices to handle the asset lifecycle management and implement programmes and projects.
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Sunbird Lern
Sunbird Lern empowers the creation and administration of personalized learning journeys for users, facilitating cohort formation, progress tracking, and enabling collaboration through interactive elements like discussion forums, events, and notifications. Furthermore, Lern offers microservices to handle user and organisation account management, including roles, location, and other essential master data.
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Societal Thinking Platform
Enabling exponential social change, the Societal Thinking platform of Ekstep Foundation fosters an environment where freedom of choice is restored, proactive interactions are triggered, and public goods are built. By embracing open value creation and empowering stakeholders with data, it facilitates the collaborative efforts of diverse actors to solve societal problems at scale. This approach recognizes that small solutions alone cannot address large challenges, and therefore, aims to reimagine and redesign the core interactions between key actors in society. Through its core values of restoring agency, catalyzing interactions, building public goods, promoting open value creation, and empowering with data, Societal Thinking empowers individuals and organisations to create exponential impact in response to societal needs.
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SunBird Building Blocs
Sunbird building blocks consist of specifications, software code, platforms, or applications. These digital assets possess four defining features. They are self-sufficient and can function independently. They can seamlessly integrate with other building blocks to enhance their value. They offer versatile capabilities applicable to various scenarios and can be easily incorporated into existing systems. Furthermore, they can be enhanced and upgraded while being utilized in solutions.
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Sunbird Anuvaad
Sunbird Anuvaad enables the translation of digital documents into nine Indian languages. Although primarily trained for Indic languages, it is designed to accommodate additional non-Indic languages for worldwide usage. It offers pre-trained models that can be customized for specific domains, incorporating tailored datasets and reference tools to meet specific requirements.
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Sunbird coKreat
Sunbird coKreat facilitates the involvement of contributors in tasks such as gathering, organising, publishing, overseeing, and acknowledging their contributions. It allows the sourcing of assets through methods like crowdsourcing and bulk uploads. With its reference web app and microservices, it supports the creation and acquisition of diverse assets, including videos, documents, questions, and interactive content, across over 30 languages.
Leadership Team
M&E
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Internal, External Assessors
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Policies
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Ethics and Transparency Policies
No
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Formal CEO Oversight & Compensation Policy
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Political & Religious Declarations
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On Affiliation if any
No
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On Deployment Bias if any
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Registration Details
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PAN Card
AAHCP9364J
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Registration ID
U74900KA2014NPL077892
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12A
AAHCP9364JE20214
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80G
AAHCP9364JF20214
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FCRA
Not Available
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CSR Registration Number
Not Available
Location
Other Details
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Type & Sub Type
Non-profit
Section 8 (formerly Section 25)