Shreyas Prakash
Met 2023-02-18 10:00 at ITC Gardenia, 1 Residency Rd, Ashok Nagar, Bengaluru, Bangalore, India.The language of Kerala is Malayalam. Similar to Tamil. Kannada is quite different.
Working with Noora Health helping them scale the program across Indonesia and Bangladesh.
Doing voice prompts to help bridge digital divide: usable on feature phones. IVR = Interactive Voice Response.
Before this he helped set up maker spaces in rural areas in Maharashtra and Auroville.
Castes have community halls, so they use those. Tools for wood and metal, and a computer. But without upkeep they get repurposed.
Worked with UV sterilization inside hospitals, at IIT Madras. Moved to Bangalore a year and a half ago.
Making a community of builders. Side projects. $100 startups. Online & worldwide.
Mumbai has the big business, but Bangalore if for startups, the Silicon Valley of India.
All startup conversations happen at Third Wave coffee chain in Bangalore.