Venkat Sriraman

Co-founder

Venkat Sriraman is the co-founder of eVidyaloka (2011)[1], an Indian non-profit working on education and rural & agriculture from Bengaluru.

Venkataramanan Sriraman, known as Venkat Sriraman, is an Indian technologist and a co-founder of eVidyaloka, a Bengaluru-based educational charity founded on 28 January 2011. eVidyaloka recruits volunteer teachers and connects them by video link to rural government schools in India, where they teach mathematics, science and English in local languages. He is the organisation's co-founder and adviser, and has previously served as its executive director.

Career

Sriraman is an engineering graduate of the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, and has held engineering and management posts at Aditi, Citigroup, Honeywell, Microsoft and Dell.

eVidyaloka records that its journey began in January 2011 when Sriraman and Satish Viswanathan, then colleagues at Microsoft India, decided to combine volunteering and technology to provide education to children in rural villages. After a two-year pilot the organisation expanded to a mix of full-time staff and a global network of volunteer teachers working with partner schools.[2][3][4]

eVidyaloka

eVidyaloka is a not-for-profit that connects volunteer teachers around the world with children in rural government schools through live online classes in maths, science, English and digital literacy. It reports impacting 2 lakh students across 950+ schools in 17 states, with 70,000+ registered volunteers.

eVidyaloka reports the following, on its own site: