Programming Out of Poverty: How India Becomes an IT Education Hub

Should this trend continue to gain momentum, India in most likelihood could well become a central player in the IT knowledge market.

Today, throughout the world, not only students and adults but also pupils of very young ages show a keen interest in IT. An example of this is 9-year-old Patel Shivank, who studied coding for a year and went on to develop and launch several advanced mobile applications.

The boy is currently working autonomously on a platform that enables doctors to track the health of premature babies. Patel lives in New York and is promised a great future.

The so-called "preschool programming" courses have particularly gained popularity. They were in demand in India even prior to the pandemic, but with the migration of educational institutions to a remote teaching format, they began to find themselves in even greater demand.

Parents of children believe that programming skills are as important today as maths and writing. Moreover, during the lockdown, schoolchildren need to be kept busy at home, preferably by doing something productive and useful for their future. All this attracted increased attention to the IT field.

India is indeed one of the countries boldly experimenting with distance learning. It is attracting investors to develop the latest online platforms and educational technologies.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, his wife Priscilla and other geniuses of the IT industry were not averse to investing in one of these Indian IT projects. As a result, the total project cost was 11BUSD. According to analysts, it will be one of the most expensive educational technology startups in the world, geared towards teaching children and enhancing programming skills.