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Co-founder, ekatra · Board Member (Technology), Let's Read · 2021 — Now
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WEF UpLink Top Innovator
Let's Read: UNHCR Innovation Fund
Two initiatives, one belief: learning shouldn't require a smartphone, reliable data, or a stable life. ekatra reaches learners over WhatsApp and SMS; Let's Read brings that same belief into a refugee camp.
ekatra started with a COVID-era problem: how do you keep teaching students who don't have reliable internet or a smartphone? The answer was to meet them on the most universal channels there are, SMS and WhatsApp. Educators build micro-courses on the web; learners take them on ordinary phones, with little or no data, personalized by generative AI and reinforced with spaced microlearning.
It has reached 35,000+ learners and was named a World Economic Forum UpLink Top Innovator in 2021; Meta featured it in the first episode of Bharat Builds With Llama.
ekatra
Co-founder · 2021 — Now
An AI-powered, offline-first microlearning platform that delivers education over WhatsApp and SMS, on the phones people already have. It has reached 35,000+ learners and was named a World Economic Forum UpLink Top Innovator in 2021.
Let's Read
Board Member, Technology · Zaatari camp
An initiative bringing educational tools to young people in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, with a special focus on girls and women. It's a joint effort led by storyteller Asmaa Al-Rashed, with Fadi Bakkawi, Home Storytellers, and Dr. Rana Dajani's We Love Reading; ekatra helps bring its lessons to learners.
It was selected for the UNHCR Innovation Fund: one of 26 projects chosen from 3,300 applications.
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