Kundan Kumar

Welcome to my profile! I am a development professional from India with interests in design and technology.

My work explores local solutions at an overlap of, opportunities, impact and the potential of internet.

Currently I work with storyweaver.org.in, connecting remote regions to a digital repository of multilingual stories for children. Now, every child can have access to an endless stream of stories in her mother tongue to read and enjoy.

With over half of India’s population unconnected to the Internet, the country is divided into haves and have nots. My work includes extensive field work with the remote, tribal and marginalized communities.

I am exploring solutions to build ‘local decentralized digital ecosystem’ for the tribal-rural communities of India.

As a fellow believer of tech and local solutions, I would love to learn and build accessible solutions in and around Rural Indian setting.

Projects

StudySurf

Unlock the Full Potential of Online Learning — Our Decentralized Ed-App Offers Seamless Plagiarism Detection, Premium Subscription Plans, and More! ⚡ethers.js, Tailwind CSS, Vite, Push Protocol, Polywrap, Arcana Auth SDK, Polygon (MATIC) network, Machine Learning (Tensorflow), Filecoin network, Filecoin Virtual Machine (VM)

Skills

Product Management

Human Centered Design

community management

Non Profit Management

Experience

Pratham Books' StoryWeaver - Associate Partnerships Manager
StoryWeaver is an open source platform by Pratham Books for multilingual children’s stories. It addresses all the issues around the lack of content by using an open access framework and technology as force multipliers combined with a platform that supports translation and re-mixing av stories.

Repositories:
https://github.com/PrathamBooks/sw-core
https://github.com/PrathamBooks/sw-web
BRLPS, Government of Bihar - Young Professional
December 2020 - December 2021
India’s JEEViKA program (literally translating to livelihoods), financed by the World Bank, is the country’s largest state-level program working exclusively with women from poor rural families across the State of Bihar.

Between 2008 to 2020, the project has worked with more than 12 million rural women, organized into 1.03 million self-help groups, to include them in economic activities by giving them access to finance and markets and improving their health and nutrition practices.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, women’s groups under NRLM, the national program modeled on JEEViKA, have been among the first to respond, making more than 168 million face masks, running over 122,600 community kitchens, and facilitating the delivery of $2.3 billion in financial assistance to more than 206 million women.