Children are innovating, learning to code and solve real-world problems

More and more Indian children are learning to code - and coming up with a host of innovations to solve real-world problems, writes Peerzada Abrar

Demo day events are usually organised for technologists and start-up founders to pitch their innovations to investors, in the hope of securing investment or validation. But something unusual happened this month when 26 children (some as young as seven) from across India pitched their innovations — including apps that they had coded to solve real-world problems — to a team of Silicon Valley venture capitalists and entrepreneurs.
 

Anti-bullying apps for children for protection against harassment at school, trackers for patients to book hospital beds and apps that help parents and doctors monitor the well-being of babies born prematurely, were some