Binayak
Founder and CEOFounder of ThinkZone
Binayak is the founder and ceo of ThinkZone[1], an Indian non-profit working on education and rural & agriculture from Cuttack.
ThinkZone
ThinkZone is an Odisha-based education non-profit started in 2014 by Binayak Acharya, a former World Bank consultant from Cuttack. It delivers low-bandwidth learning content to parents through phone calls, SMS, WhatsApp and an AI chatbot, and supports teachers and anganwadi workers with an offline-enabled mobile app. The organisation works in partnership with the Odisha government on children's foundational literacy and numeracy for ages 3 to 10.
ThinkZone reports the following, on its own site:
- 1.4M+ Children Impacted (Odisha, India)
- 104K+ Educators Supported (Odisha, India)
- 33.5% Higher Improvement for Struggling Learners Within 4 Months (RCT Findings)
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Cuttack
- Founded
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- Press
- 2
References
- [1] “Binayak Founder and CEO” — ThinkZone. Source
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