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Job Exchanges
How did a digital public infrastructure company gained 1 million registered users within 12 months?
Skill India Digital is specially designed and developed to skill, reskill and upskill Indian individuals through an online training platform, API-based trusted skill credentials, payment and discovery layers for jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities.
Industry
Upskilling & Training
Platform
Web App
Mobile App
Technology Platform
Services
UX Strategy
UI Design
UX Design & Prototyping
Full Stack development
Tools
The Skill India initiative was launched by the Government of India in 2015 with a singular mission – to ensure that India’s workforce becomes employable and future ready.
Skill India Platform’s ambitious vision came with it’s own set of challenges at many different levels. Adding to the complexity was the fact that there was no such platform built anywhere in the world so there were no reference points to draw inspiration from.
Using a series of immersive discovery sessions, we evolved ideas, and organized them into user journey maps.
Instead of adopting the route to study the market, conducting the survey, we adopted the route of rapid experimentation of ideas by building a set of hypotheses.
The answers to these questions mobilized our efforts towards building the MVP, building fast, and validating the hypothesis.
The first phase of the product was built in 45 days. The goal wasn’t about building a scalable.
Technology stack, but merely an opportunity to represent the ideas in action. The idea was to build fast, and take the product to the end users and validate the hypothesis
Equipped with the insights in the MVP stage, it was time to incorporate the learnings into the actual build. The leadership could successfully get the buy-in for the budget and resources to build the platform. The vision evolved from software application to a platform, a Digital Public Infrastructure.
Over 150 team members from 10 different partner companies, including stalwarts from the Big Four consulting firms, collaborated on the Skill India Digital initiative.
The journey went on for about 12 months to build a robust technology platform with highly scalable architecture. Both web applications with mobile first approach and mobile applications on iOS and android devices were launched.
Indian Languages
Resources
Skill Courses
Training Sessions
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Job Exchanges
Indian Languages
Resources
42645+
Skill Centers
Skill Courses
Training Sessions
581+
Skill Courses
After 12 months of non-stop development cycle, Skill India came close to making an entry into India’s digital skill ecosystem.
Aadhaar-verified users
600K+
Minutes of lessons learned
The Skill India Digital initiative, under the aegis of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, was launched with the ambition to bridge the skill gap in the Indian workforce, ensuring that individuals are prepared for the global job market.
Skill India Digital is a constantly evolving platform with a myriad range of challenges and opportunities. We are playing a proactive role in the evolution of this platform through these initiatives.
Recognizing the value of collaboration, Skill India Digital constantly pursues integrating third-party platforms and tools. These integrations will enrich the user experience by providing more resources, tools, and functionalities. It’s a strategic move to ensure that users don’t have to hop between multiple platforms and can find all they need within the same ecosystem.
Regular research is undertaken to identify user challenges. The user-centric approach ensures the platform remains relevant, efficient, and intuitive for its audience.
