EkStep Foundation launches the Open Network for Education and Skilling Transformation

EkStep Foundation launched the Open Network for Education and Skilling Transformation – ONEST – incubated by EkStep and backed by the Open Network for Digital Commerce. With partners including; Open Network for Digital Commerce, Protean, the Foundation for Interoperability in Digital Economy, ONEST aims to facilitate the lives of students, professionals and job seekers from situation to solution, according to the press release.

It further said that the network celebrated its inaugural live transaction between Namma Yatri and Protean Vidyasaarthi, a scholarship application from the daughter of a Namma Yatri entrepreneur, which was made through Namma Yatri, reached Protean Vidyasaarthi, securing her a merit scholarship.

“Digital Public Infrastructure has fundamentally changed the way samaaj, sarkaar and bajaar are interacting with each other. We need to combine the power of digital capital with human capital to create the people + advantage. Harnessing talent and getting people ready is a challenge we must focus on. ONEST is our endeavour to bring digital public infrastructure to society for the purposes of facilitating the skilling and education of hundreds of millions of Indians,” Nandan Nilekani, chairman, EkStep Foundation and founding chairman, said.