Across sectors in India, the Covid-19 crisis pushed businesses to embrace technology at a rate they wouldn't have thought possible otherwise. Will it sustain?
In November, the state government of Maharashtra launched a programme called Swadhyay to improve the online education of children around the state. The programme tapped WhatsApp to provide weekly assessments and learning activities to students in classes 1 to 10. Six weeks into the programme, some 1.1 million students in the state were using the service, according to ConveGenius, a Noida-based education tech-social enterprise.
(This story appears in the 01 January, 2021 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)