Tata Consultancy Services Limited

Adult non-literacy continues to be a problem holding back India from reaching its full economic potential. Women account for 65% of the illiterate population, and the rest is from marginalized communities. To address the causes of non-literacy, TCS devised the Literacy as a Service Program (LaaS) which augments the Government of India’s efforts to improve literacy. LaaS provides an innovative teaching method by combining the power of IT with the theory of cognition and laws of perception. LaaS adopts creative means of delivery to enable functional literacy, such as animated graphic patterns for easy visual and auditory learning.

Ignite My Future is a teacher professional development program which introduces the concept of computational thinking into all core subjects. This is a transdisciplinary education program that transforms the way students learn. IMF has generated a great impact through professional development offerings, special projects as well as volunteer and customer engagements with the partnered schools. IMF’s Learning Leaders community supports the growing global community of partnered educators, committed to learnings about the power of computational thinking. This year, IMF India launched Learning Leaders’ regional chapters, catering to regional learning requirements of the teachers from the partner districts across India.

TCS’ flagship program goIT (go Innovate Together) is a Digital Innovation program which prepares students with culturally relevant and context-appropriate learning experiences, coupled with modern technologies. Across the world, the gap between employers’ needs and available skills is growing. The National Science Foundation predicts that 80% of the jobs that will be created in the next decade will require a form of mathematics and science skilling. Insufficient numbers of students pursuing these streams, and lack of focus on innovation, problem-solving and creativity in jobs.

BridgeIT is a unique initiative created to bridge the digital divide that places socially and economically underprivileged communities at a disadvantage. The program creates digital entrepreneurs who use IT to help local citizens avail essential digital services in education, adult literacy, unemployment and social discrimination. It attempts to address prevailing social inequities in India by proactively reaching out to women, Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST) communities.Launched in 2014, BridgeIT has a footprint across 30 districts in 10 states. The program offers budding entrepreneurs the skills, mentoring, technology, tools and resources required to set up a Digital Service Centre from where they can provide services such as generating and updating documents (such as Aadhar cards, Pan cards, and voters ID), enrolling for different government schemes, filling in online forms and cash withdrawals/deposits from the bank to fellow villagers.

YEP tackles one of the biggest challenges in India – unemployment among youth, especially those from marginalized sections of society, due to lack of 21st century skills. YEP provides employability training, imparting skills such as business communication, aptitude, computer programming and domain skills with the help of subject matter experts, domain leaders, and certified trainers from TCS.

Digital Impact Square (DISQ) is a social innovation platform established in 2015 in Nashik, Maharashtra. The platform encourages innovation among young employees who harness the power of digital technology and engage with the digital ecosystem, to develop solutions for a lasting change in society.Since its founding, DISQ has worked with 7 cohorts with more than 600 innovators, 35% of who are female. These innovators hail from 22 states and from over 180 colleges across India. In FY 2023, DISQ encouraged innovation using digital
technologies to address the social challenges drawn from the voice of citizens, domain experts, local administration, and the government and has nurtured over 65 changemakers. These are purpose-led innovations in agri-tech, assistive-tech, health and wellness tech and sustainability tech across india

During the Assam flood, TCS aided the relief activities through its branch in Kolkata. Flood responses were carried out in the severely affected areas of Cachar District, including the Kalain, Katigorah, Borkhola and Salchapra blocks.