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Opening the Hood: Examining AI through Critical Futures Pedagogy

The narratives of AI are being constructed around our collective futures. It becomes imperative that individuals and communities, especially young people reflect upon the futures being presented. There is a need to question these, and explore alternatives. This action research demonstrates how critical AI futures literacy can empower young people to move from feeling anxious about technological futures, toward having agency in shaping them. It provides a ‘Critical AI Futures Pedagogical Framework’, that aids young people to reimagine AI in alternate social-technical contexts, scrutinise AI implementations, and articulate diverse AI perspectives.

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By the Young, For the Young, Of the Young

This charter presents the anxieties, hopes and visions of young people in India who will inherit the vision of AI-first Vikisit Bharat in 2047. This puts forward their concerns and corresponding shifts they want in the approach of building AI in India. They advocate for an approach that embraces emerging technologies with a care-centric mindset rather than innovation-at-all-costs, which ensures ethical and equitable futures.

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The complex digital lives of young people

The proliferation of the internet has opened up a parallel universe for young people in India, one that resembles a maidan, a public ground. The internet is a public space where young people replicate and reinvent ways of being, similar to that of their physical lives. By examining how young people consume content, form aspirations, express identity, seek community, and negotiate agency online, this report surfaces the complexity of digital youthhood in contemporary India.

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From Anxiety to Hope

With the future being uncertain the importance of Futures Literacy as a skill for young people becomes all the more important. We look at the implications of this and how this skill can be inculcated in our youth. This report introduces a pedagogy of hope in the climate crisis.

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Climate Futures Zine

Quest Alliance's zine elevates the voices of youth from Assam, Gujarat, Odisha. Their lived experiences of the effects of climate change are captured, and the emotional toll of these difficulties is examined. The zine elevates youth perspectives on justice, resilience, and climate adaptation through compelling narratives and imagery. It urges communities and policymakers to acknowledge and support young people as active leaders constructing equitable, sustainable, and hopeful climate futures for all, advocating for inclusive futures where youth agency is at the center of climate decision-making.

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Quest Alliance Updates (FY 24-25)

Quest Alliance reached 750,000+ students and 9,000+ educators, integrating future-ready skills like AI and green tech across government schools and skilling centers. Career pathways were enhanced with placement drives and teacher training in critical thinking and SEL. Youth-led programs like Hack to the Future sparked innovation and systemic change for equitable learning and work futures.

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AI Futures

Education - Research Studies

Hack to the Future: Odisha Edition 2024

In Odisha, Quest Alliance, in partnership with the Amazon Future Engineer program, has been working with government secondary schools to enable students to learn coding. In collaboration with the Mo School Abhiyan Parichalana Sangathan, Quest Alliance has contributed to the development of the Kaushali curriculum, which enables students to develop computational thinking skills.
During this five-day journey, students refined problem statements, brainstormed, worked on prototypes, and learned programming using various software. With each session, they navigated the intricacies of design thinking, software development, and the art of presentation. Through hands-on workshops and mentor-led guidance, they sharpened their skills, learned how to tackle obstacles, and pushed the boundaries of creativity to create impressive real-time problem-solving prototypes.

Research Study - Research Studies

Equity in Action: Insights from a five-year-long intervention with women in education and skilling

Adolescent girls and young women in India are faced with multiple barriers and disadvantages that manifest themselves early on both at home and in public spheres. These culminate in adolescent girls and young women having limited agency and decision making ability about aspects of their own lives, in low female labour force participation as well as unequal representation in public life and spaces. To address the gender disadvantages, Quest Alliance has adopted the following strategies in its program design. 

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From Anxiety To Hope: Building Emancipatory Climate Futures Literacy in Young People

With the future being uncertain the importance of Futures Literacy as a skill for young people becomes all the more important. We look at the implications of this and how this skill can be inculcated in our youth. This report introduces a pedagogy of hope in the climate crisis.