Neil D'Souza, Zaya Labs
• ā • Indian School of Design and Innovation
About the speaker
Neil D'Souza is the founder of Zaya, a disruptive educational social enterprise that is bringing the online education revolution to the bottom of the pyramid. During his time at Cisco, Neil developed a strong passion to help underprivileged communities and he set his sights on how to bridge the education gap for children in remote regions of the world. He spent a couple of years in Mongolia and Indonesia, in villages piloting technology that would enable access to learning for everyone. Neil is an avid traveller and has lived, traveled and worked in 40 countries. His new passion is triathlons and cycling and he recently finished his first Ironman in Malaysia.
Local partners
ISDI is in collaboration with Parsons The New School for Design, a global leader in design education. This partnership enables ISDI to benefit from Parsonsā rigorous curriculum, prominent visiting faculty, well established student exchanges and global relationships.
ISDIās own academic ideology moulds designers to cater to a diverse range of industries and employers.
All our educational programmes are built upon the foundation of a forward-thinking and innovative curriculum, industry sponsored projects, national and international collaborations and a deep sense of social and environmental responsibility.
Creativity, innovation and sustainability are core to ISDIās philosophy.
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Additional details
Zaya Labs provides blended educational technology and services to students in low income schools around the world. Its model allows students to divide their time between digital content on tablets, instructional time with a teacher and peer-to-peer group work. The company has created a āLabKitā, which includes all the components required to set up a blended online and offline learning lab in low-income school settings.
And thanks to our global partner, CreativeLive, we’ll be giving away 3 live classes to 3 lucky people who attend the talk!
Location
Hosted at
Indian School of Design and Innovation
One Indiabulls Centre, Tower 2A, 4th Floor, Senapati Bapat Marg, Lower Parel
Mumbai, India 400013
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Photographer Nihal Fernandes
