Rajen Varada | Founder, Technology for the people

 

Rajen Varada is a ICT practioner since 1995 and continues to be actively engaged in designing and implementing proff of concept solutions for rural development using technology and in particular ICT. He has beeen at the forefront of developing solutions for health, early childhood care,( sisu samrakshak) disaster,( SMS4help), district administration (Parishkaram) and most recently ‘Labnet” a migrant labour tracking and servces portal. Technology for the people and NGo of which he is the founder continues to research on ICTsolutions for the social sector. Rajen has been the founding of movements like public sector software and actively supports community ownership of technology, from community radio, community Tv and open source use. He has worked in UNICEF as a project manager to design a health dissemination package for rural communities called ‘Sisu Samrakshak’. Which broke new ground in designing icons in collaboration with the rural communities.
Mr. Rajen subsequently worked as Resource Person of the United Nations Solution Exchange ICT for development Unit.