Skill-A-Thon 1.0

EkStep Foundation ("EkStep") is a non-profit foundation that aims to extend learning opportunities to millions of learners in India. EkStep was founded by Nandan Nilekani, Rohini Nilekani and Shankar Maruwada in collaboration with the leadership team that was instrumental in developing the Aadhaar project. Sunbird®, developed by EkStep Foundation, is a set of configurable, extendable, modular building blocks for learning and human development designed for scale and open sourced under MIT license. It can be used by any organization, be it government, non-profit, or private and it comes with reference solutions built by the community that can be readily used. The architecture of Sunbird is purposely designed in a generalized and externalized manner, it can be configured and extended by any organization to run a platform that enables solutions in their context and domain. Sunbird is designed for diversity and scale so that it caters to multiple domain needs; and scale & diversity of India.