Strengthening Data Ecosystems for Education in India

In the last two decades, India has made a considerable effort to provide education for all but its learning outcomes are consistently low. It is hoped that new technologies like AI will help at various levels from making lessons more student-centric to analysing big data for better resource allocation. But the road ahead is long — or let’s say, exciting — for problem solvers. There is scope to develop more socially-considerate digital software, hardware, and infrastructure.

This report summarises learnings from a collaborative research project by Quicksand as well as Mozilla Festival and the Data Futures Lab, that sought to understand the landscape of data ecosystems within public school systems in India, to inform both Indian and global stakeholders and to start a conversation around data benefits and harm in this context. This project is part of a larger partnership with USAID and Mozilla Foundation.