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ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2024

United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. This year, 52,000+ young leaders applied to join the Class of 2024 on 6,000+ campuses across 170 nations. 280+ campuses worldwide (just 5%) were selected to host the 4,000+ Millennium Fellows.

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UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT JYOTIRADITYA PRADHAN, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.

Azim Premji University Bengaluru | Bengaluru, India | Advancing SDG 4, SDG 8 & UNAI 5

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" Ideas you have are important. But more important are the people you know. With Millennium Fellowship, I look forward to joining an energetic community of of like-minded people, who drive social impact with their innovative ideas. "

Millennium Fellowship Project: AssistiveTech APU

My project is creating a group called AssistiveTech APU, which creates technologies to help the university's disabled students. The group currently consists of three people, including myself. My role in the group is creating mobile applications that can be useful to students with disabilities. We have brainstormed various ideas, ranging various disabilities, from visual impairment to limited mobility. However, the idea I decided to focus first would help visually impaired people identify various classrooms and offices in the university. The way it works is fairly simple. It uses a technology called near-field communication (NFC), which is also used when you tap and pay using your bank card at a store. NFC tags containing information about the respective room will be placed at the entrances. I am working on an app that will read this information from the tag when the phone is taken near it. It will then read out loud the room/office number to the user.

About the Millennium Fellow

Jyotiraditya Pradhan is a economics undergraduate at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru in India. His academic interests are geared towards understanding poverty, inequality and development. Apart with this, he loves to code and has been trying to build softwares that can help people since his high school days. His interactions with the disability office in his university inspired him to work on assistive technologies.

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