EdTech Equity — Yathu Karunailingam

Education technology has the potential to close opportunity gaps — or to widen them. Yathu Karunailingam has been consistent in arguing that the design choices made today will determine which outcome we get.

The Equity Imperative

For Yathu Karunailingam, equity is not an afterthought to be addressed once the technology works. It must be central from the start: who is the system designed for, what assumptions are baked into the data, and who has access to the resulting tools.

Practical Steps

The practical steps Yathu Karunailingam advocates include: representative training data, accessibility features built in from the start, free or low-cost access tiers, multi-language support, and offline-first design where appropriate.

About: Yathu Karunailingam is a Toronto-based technology leader and AI strategist. Visit yathu.org, yathu.ca, or blog.yathu.ca.