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Barefoot College — Solar MamasTrains illiterate rural women as solar engineers who electrify their own villages.Proyecto Utopía (Universidad de La Salle, Yopal)University campus created in 2010 by Universidad de La Salle in Yopal (Casanare) that trains rural youth who are victims of the conflict or living in poverty, selected in their territories, as agronomic engineers with a full scholarship. Learning-by-doing and teaching-by-demonstrating methodology; in their final year students carry out productive projects in their communities. More than 700 young people from 30+ departments. National Solidarity Prize 2016.DIKSHA - national digital infrastructure for school educationIndia's national school education platform (Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing), launched in September 2017 and operated by NCERT/CIET under the Ministry of Education. Built on Sunbird, open source infrastructure (MIT license) seeded by EkStep Foundation. Adopted by 35+ states and territories: multilingual content repository, QR-energized textbooks and large-scale teacher training (NISHTHA). As of June 2026 it reports 22.5 million users and 5.75 billion learning sessions. It was the backbone of remote learning during COVID-19.Tusome Early Grade Reading ActivityNational early grade literacy program of Kenya's Ministry of Education with RTI International and USAID funding (2014-2022). It scaled the structured pedagogy proven in the PRIMR pilot to all public primary schools: teacher guides, 1:1 books, tablet-based coaching and EGRA assessment. It reached more than 10 million students in grades 1-3 in English and Kiswahili.Bridge Kenya (Bridge International Academies)Network of low-cost schools founded in Kibera, Nairobi, in 2009, today part of the NewGlobe group. Highly standardized model: scripted lessons delivered to teachers via tablets, daily monitoring and centralized management. It operates in 30 of the 47 counties. A lottery-based RCT (~10,000 scholarship recipients out of ~25,000 applicants; Gray-Lobe, Keats, Kremer, Mbiti and Ozier) found gains among the largest in the literature (0.89 extra equivalent years in primary, 1.48 in pre-primary), although civil society organizations question the model and its labor conditions.M-Shule (adaptive learning via SMS)Kenyan platform founded in Nairobi in 2017 by Claire Mongeau and Julie Otieno that delivers personalized micro-lessons in mathematics, English and skills via SMS and chatbots, using AI-powered adaptive learning. Designed for households without a smartphone: a basic phone is enough. It has reached ~20,000-23,000 students/households in ~30 counties; studies report learning gains that are equitable across gender and location. M-Shule means mobile school in Kiswahili.