Nandan Nilekani joins Gates-led $500 million Co-Impact fund

Ekstep will be the technical partner with its open knowledge platform

Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani and his wife Rohini have joined a grouping of billionaire philanthropists including Bill and Melinda Gates to set up a fund that targets social impact at a large scale.

The grouping, which is called Co-Impact, has been set up with an initial corpus of $500 million and will focus providing healthcare, education, and economic opportunity to the underserved populus in developing countries.

EkStep Foundation, which is founded by Nilekani and his wife Rohini will be a technical partner of Co-Impact, supporting the initiative with its open knowledge platform as well as with capacity building, said a