Education
Skill Up India
Free online education portal with open courseware from top universities — launched 2015 with iCREATE, IIM-A, IIT Gandhinagar.
501(c)(3) nonprofit · Founded 2013
Technology in service of a billion.
Code for India is a Silicon Valley nonprofit founded by Karl Mehta on India's Independence Day, 2013. We connect volunteer engineers, designers, and data scientists with Indian NGOs to build open, scalable civic-tech solutions.
- 1,500+
- Volunteer engineers
- 30+
- NGO partners
- 4
- Global chapters
Watch: Code for India in action · Hackathon 2015 at Google HQ
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Think local, hack global
Volunteer engineers from Silicon Valley, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Gujarat ship scalable solutions for India's hardest civic problems.
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Built with NGOs
Every project pairs technologists with a named non-profit partner — Akshaya Patra, iCREATE, NGOs across 30+ causes.
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Open and free
Code is open source. Curriculum is free. Tools belong to the communities they serve, not to us.
What we've shipped
Signature projects
Hunger
Routely — Akshaya Patra
Route-optimization tool delivering midday meals to millions of schoolchildren across India.
Health
EVDNet — Ebola Response
Leveraging open data and mapping to fight the world's deadliest disease outbreak in West Africa.
Education
Adopt-a-School
Data-driven program to improve infrastructure in under-resourced government schools.
Featured event
Hackathon 2015 at Google HQ.
On September 26–27, 2015, Code for India brought ~200 programmers to the Googleplex in Mountain View and another ~250–350 to Tech Mahindra's Noida office for a 15-hour transcontinental hackathon on the theme Digital & Skilled India.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the room via video from Google HQ during his US visit. Sundar Pichai and CP Gurnani encouraged the teams in person.
Read the event archive →
Watch
Video highlights
Partners & collaborators
- NASSCOM
- Tech Mahindra
- Akshaya Patra
- iCREATE
- IIM Ahmedabad
- IIT Gandhinagar
- US India Business Council
- Indiaspora
If you can code, design, or analyze — India can use you.
Join 1,500+ volunteer technologists building free, open software for nonprofits across India.