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41 problem statements in 4 clusters. Pick your cluster and start exploring.
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B refs are partner-organisation briefs, S refs are student-raised statements.
Dream a Dream
Map the young people, employers and services within 8 to 10 km of a centre.
Skills
Domains: Education, Livelihoods
Project SparkL
A child enrolled in Grade 6 may read at Grade 2. Find the real level, at scale.
Skills
Domains: Education
Centre for Wildlife Studies
Two large archives of photos, video and approved facts, with no way to find anything.
Skills
Domains: Environment
Centre for Wildlife Studies
Field recorders produce enormous audio. Most of it is wind. Find the calls that matter.
Skills
Domains: Environment
SELCO Foundation
Map a value chain end to end before deciding where energy technology changes an income.
Skills
Domains: Livelihoods, Agriculture
Project SparkL
Facilitator training costs a full day of travel every week. Simulate the student instead.
Skills
Domains: Education
Atria Foundation
Management questions are about individual animals, not species counts.
Skills
Domains: Environment
Atria Foundation
Estimate what species live in an area when detection is always imperfect.
Skills
Domains: Environment
InspireMinds
Young adults know what would help their wellbeing and still do not do it. Measure what closes the gap.
Skills
Domains: Mental health, Education
ResQ
Read records, symptoms and test results together to flag risk early.
Skills
Domains: Health
Air defence operators
Detect GPS spoofing and predict curving drone trajectories on one operator console.
Skills
Domains: Other: defence and security
Rural households and community centres
Rather than programming every fault, learn what normal looks like and flag the rest.
Skills
Domains: Rural development, Water
Dream a Dream
Jobs, courses and scholarships exist on dozens of sites. Put them where a young person can use them.
Skills
Domains: Education, Livelihoods
Dream a Dream
Young people leave the centre and contact is lost. Keep it, and match them to mentors.
Skills
Domains: Education, Livelihoods
Centre for Wildlife Studies
Website, social, email and payment data sit in eight places and never form one picture.
Skills
Domains: Environment
Centre for Wildlife Studies
Donor touchpoints are scattered and never become one relationship history.
Skills
Domains: Environment
Atria Foundation
Put charitable fund flow on a ledger so a donor can see exactly where the money went.
Skills
Domains: Livelihoods
Project Chitoor
A sponsor pays for a tree and needs auditable proof that it is alive years later.
Skills
Domains: Environment, Agriculture
Project Chitoor
Tablets and a learning platform are in the school. Adoption stalled. Find out why, then fix it.
Skills
Domains: Education
Atria Foundation
People retire at 58 to 60 with decades of skill left. Match them to work that wants it.
Skills
Domains: Livelihoods
ResQ
Pet medicine, food and care guidance are scattered across sources owners cannot judge.
Skills
Domains: Health, Accessibility
Examination Section, Atria IT
Identity, attendance, USN and B-Form data sit in separate manual processes across halls.
Skills
Domains: Education
Digital Green Foundation
Crop, weather, scheme and market information is fragmented across sources.
Skills
Domains: Agriculture, Rural development
Small online sellers
A seller listed on three marketplaces does every task three times.
Skills
Domains: Livelihoods
Robin Hood Army
Surplus food and hunger exist a few kilometres apart. The routing between them is the problem.
Skills
Domains: Waste, Food security
Students, submitted via ResQ
Printing means leaving campus. Upload, pay and collect from a kiosk instead.
Skills
Domains: Accessibility, Education
Project SparkL
A 60 hour hands-on programme across petrol and electric two-wheelers, and the workshop to run it.
Skills
Domains: Livelihoods, Education
Atria Foundation
By the time stress is visible the damage is days old. Catch it in the plant's signals.
Skills
Domains: Agriculture
Atria Foundation
Mobile signal along a railway line drops out for long stretches. Serve the passenger anyway.
Skills
Domains: Livelihoods, Accessibility
Examination Section, Atria IT
Student verification and B-Form capture in the hall is manual, slow and error-prone.
Skills
Domains: Education
Ministry of Coal
Low-cost real-time monitoring and warning for ground subsidence over underground coal mines.
Skills
Domains: Environment, Safety
Commuter, commercial and emergency vehicle operators
Detect road hazards and surface type offline, on low-power hardware in the vehicle.
Skills
Domains: Accessibility, Safety
Dream a Dream
Outside session hours the building is just a building. Make it usable by young people.
Skills
Domains: Education
Dream a Dream
One teacher, a wide range of ages and abilities, very little equipment.
Skills
Domains: Education, Health
Project Chitoor
Loading, turning, checking and unloading solar dryer trays is all manual and repeats daily.
Skills
Domains: Agriculture, Livelihoods
Project Chitoor
Weeding is hand work all season, and the labour grows with every acre farmed.
Skills
Domains: Agriculture
Project Chitoor
Saplings, slips and seeds are placed by hand, with depth and spacing varying all day.
Skills
Domains: Agriculture
Atria Foundation
Skilled climbers are scarce and ageing, and the fruit is at the top of a smooth trunk.
Skills
Domains: Agriculture
Local food vendors and restaurants
Replace single-use plastic food packaging with something affordable, safe and durable.
Skills
Domains: Environment, Waste
Newspaper distributors
Papers are delivered by bicycle and scooter before dawn, through the monsoon.
Skills
Domains: Livelihoods
Government hospital patients
Nursing support in government hospitals where staff are stretched thin.
Skills
Domains: Health, Accessibility