500 million young people from the Global South will enter the workforce by 2030 — right as the AI revolution matures. We're building the AI literacy ecosystem that gives them a seat at the table, not just a place in the pipeline.
The conversation about AI education has focused on the wrong question. It's not about training children to serve industry needs. It's about giving them the tools to question, shape, and govern the systems that will govern their lives.
AI shifts tech education from coding to imagination, judgment, and agility. The children who will live most profoundly with these systems are currently the least visible to them.
Edcetera works with schools, NGOs, and institutions to research, design, and implement AI literacy programs that are context-sensitive, politically aware, and grounded in the lived realities of the students we serve.
Hands-on, bilingual instruction covering AI concepts, bias, ethics, and policy. Designed from the Global South perspective — not adapted from Silicon Valley.
Our AI literacy assessment measures knowledge, skills, self-efficacy, career awareness, and critical beliefs — providing institutions with actionable data on student readiness.
We generate evidence on what AI literacy looks like in India's classrooms — publishing findings to advance the field and influence policy.
Supporting schools and NGOs to develop frameworks for integrating AI literacy into existing structures — beyond one-off workshops.
Connecting educators, researchers, and advocates across the Global South who are working on critical tech literacy — a field that needs more collaboration, not competition.
Expanding what students believe is possible. AI ethics, policy, safety, and advocacy are careers — and marginalized students aren't being shown they exist.
In June 2024, we ran a two-week AI literacy pilot with Grade 9 students in Pune, in partnership with Akanksha Foundation. Here's what happened.
"Before, I was scared of AI. Now I can explain it."
"When we became neurons ourselves, then I understood how input transfers to output."
"I never knew Google Assistant or Siri are part of AI. Now I know."
"Will AI replace human jobs? We should think about this for our future."
Traditional boot camps create individual success stories. We build movements. Our students don't just learn to use AI — they learn to question it, reshape it, and deploy it for community benefit.
Every line of code is a political choice. We teach students to ask: whose problem does this solve? Who benefits? Who bears the cost? This critical consciousness is what transforms tech workers into tech justice advocates.
Silicon Valley solutions don't work for Global South problems. A 15-year-old in rural Bangladesh understands local water management challenges better than any Stanford PhD. We help them build AI solutions that work for their reality.
Most AI education treats students as future workers for foreign companies. We're building an ecosystem where young people create value in their communities — for their communities.
Our team comes from education, technology, and social change — with a shared conviction that equity in AI starts in classrooms, not boardrooms.
Nine years across education and technology organisations, with an anti-caste, equity-first lens. Building the story and the coalitions to scale what we're learning.
Designing learning experiences that meet students where they are — bilingual, hands-on, and grounded in the real inequities of the classrooms we work in.
Connecting the vision to the institutions that can make it real — building the partnerships, frameworks, and systems to take AI literacy to scale.
We partner with schools, NGOs, and institutions across India to design and implement AI literacy programs that actually work for their context.