Executive Summary

How do you solve the problem that faces 144 million children in India’s government schools where 6 out of 10 cannot read grade-2 text and 8 out of 10 cannot do simple math sums. Our design thinking assumption is that if we ignite the classroom by bringing innovation in the interface of the teacher and child and implement it at scale in partnership with government –we can solve this problem. This gave birth to Sampark Smart Shala with 5 innovative elements including an Audio box with a voice mascot called “Sampark Didi” and BOT enabled mobile App that works without internet combined with extensive teacher training and rigorous real time monitoring. This has helped us achieve over 40% increase in learning outcomes for 7 million children in 76,000 rural schools at just $1 per child/annum and we hope to reach 20 million children in 200,000 schools over next five years