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So, we started defining some large questions. Because then we will stretch our imagination, we will stretch out constructs, we will try to do something which has not been attempted before, or at least we’ll learn from it. We said, if we have to do this, let us focus on some large problems, because technology for development has been used and continues to be used and will be used in the future in many colors, shapes, and sizes, but we will be useful to the ecosystem and to the people who are trying to make a difference at scale only if we look at a very different magnitude of the problem. And we said, let us consolidate and see if there’s a pattern and the idea or the concept or the seed of Societal Platform Thinking was born. And the work at EkStep Foundation had just started a few years ago on education. And there were a lot of lessons to be learned from Aadhaar, which is the biometric identification system of India, or the or the Unified Payments Interface, which is the payments engine for the country, and the associated platforms around know-your-customer or around digital lockers. So going back in 2016, we sat down to think about what were the experiences that we had had on the ground with large scale technology for societal development. I would love for you to just give us the background on what is Platform Thinking and how you see it changing the world for the better. What I’m particularly excited about is, in some ways, the massive ambition that is expressed in Societal Platform Thinking for changing the world and done in some really interesting ways. Well, thank you! I think that there’s so many great ideas and great examples of those ideas that I think you have to share with us.

We are also super inspired by the work that you have been driving at Tech Matters, and looking forward to the conversation today. It’s a pleasure and a privilege to be here. We’re just delighted to be exploring these ideas with you, because I know you’ve been thinking about them a great deal. We’re delighted to be talking about doing tech for good at massive scale with Societal Platform Thinking. Welcome, Sanjay to the Tech Matters Podcast. Let’s hear from him on what this looks like exactly and what social entrepreneurs can learn from this approach. As Chief Curator, Sanjay’s role is not to create ideas out of the blue but to help nurture and develop the ecosystem of ideas, people and organizations that already exist.

And we’re talking, by India’s standards, hundreds of millions of people. Societal Platform Thinking is aimed at designing platforms for social change at scale. Sanjay Purohit has decades of leadership experience in both the private and social sector, and is now Chief Curator at Societal Platform.

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We’ll also learn from them about what it means to be a tech social entrepreneur, how to build a good tech team, exit strategies, ethical use of data, finding money, and making sure that when you’re designing software, you’re putting people first. Over the course of this series, I’ll be talking to some amazing social change leaders about how they are using tech to help tackle the wicked problems of the world.

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Welcome to the Tech Matters Podcast, an audio series about digital technology and social entrepreneurship.

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