About Us…
Vision…
Make quality education accessible in local languages, through digital technologies.
Mission…
Address the educational divide faced by millions of students in India, where English is not the mother tongue.
Create library of easy to understand digital content in local languages covering basic concepts
Collaborate with local school systems to propagate digital learning.
Create network of professionals for mentoring students coming from areas with less exposure to technology and education.
Values…
Education belongs to all.
Fundamental concepts are best understood when taught in mother tongue.
Digital platforms and social media can help bridge educational divide.
Giving helping hand to aspiring young students from rural areas can unleash untapped potential.
Team…
Content Producer
Flt Lt Manoj Jamsandekar (retd.): After serving Indian Air Force for 8 years and working in Corporate IT field for 10+ years, Flt Lt Manoj currently works as Founder Director of Qurious Mind. He is passionate about helping India to become hub of creators. He has a YouTube channel that produces Mathematics, Robotics and Programming related videos. Apart from passion for Mathematics, he likes Music and Football too.
Advisor and Sponsor
Mr.Bhushan Apte: Works as Cloud Risk Manager at Capital One Bank NA. Has 25+ years of experience in Software Engineering in Telecom, Manufacturing and Financial Sectors. Is passionate about making knowledge available in vernacular languages and likes to enjoy poetry and music in spare time.
Advisor and Sponsor
Mr. Pramod Sadalage: Director at ThoughtWorks ,where he enjoys the rare role of bridging the divide between database professionals and application developers. In the early 00’s he developed techniques to allow relational databases to be designed in an evolutionary manner based on version-controlled schema migrations. He is contributing author for Building Evolutionary Architectures - Support Constant Change, co-author of Refactoring Databases, co-author of NoSQL Distilled, author of Recipes for Continuous Database Integration.
Advisor and Sponsor
Mr. Amar Gadkari. Born and brought up in the village Abdul Lat in Kolhapur district. He studied in his village until 10th grade. Now working in the Bay Area for Salesforce.com for 8+ years as a Vice President of engineering. Prior to that he worked at Microsoft. He believes everyone deserves great education and is essential for the development of our society.
Advisor and Sponsor
Mr. Vaibhav Kulkarni: Works as Sr. Director at Cognizant Technology Solutions in NJ, USA and help clients build modern enterprises through Digital solutions. Vaibhav has completed his primary education in a village near Kolhapur and believes children living in rural India should have access to quality education through digital channels to compete with children having better access to modern education facilities.
Advisor and Sponsor
Mr. Sarang Gadgil: Over 25 years of experience in the Telecommunication industry. Currently working as Product Manager in Nokia. Passionate and interested in development of the society especially in rural education.
Advisor and Sponsor
Mr. Vinod Mahajan: Brings 25+ years of experience in Software industry and currently works in Chief Technology Office, with UK’s one of the largest bank. He is Alumni of IIMA, IIMC, and WCE, believes in continuous leaning. Vinod has worked in USA, UK, Singapore, and Australia and brings global experience. Apart from work, he is a marathon runner, completed National Marathon Circuit. He has developed passion for Run, Treks, bicycling. He has done many treks around Pune, Himalaya. Vinod is developing skills on art of simplification, how to explain in a simple language to layman on any topic.