Nilekani promoted EkStep to pilot its first app for education survey

EkStep a social venture launched by Nandan and Rohini Nilekani to address learning challenges in the primary education space, Its first app during the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) survey.

As a part of the survey which has been christened as Lakhon Mein Ek this year, ASER Centre intends to cover 100,000 villages with the help of around 10,000 volunteers. This year, the volunteers would use smartphones powered by ASER App developed by EkStep

EkStep :

• EkStep set up by the Nilekanis with an initial commitment of $10 million, It looks at solving the ‘learning problem’ by creating a technology-led platform.
• The backbone is ‘EkStep Genie‘, a meta-app which will contain lots of gamified apps for which EkStep is working with an external partner organization.

CEO : Shankar Maruwada.