Unbundling Evaluation: How AI is Reshaping Monitoring & Learning at Scale
Taller | Híbrido
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Organizado por:
ShikshaLokam
- En alianza con: Center for Exponential Change, CoLab Global
Sobre el evento
Traditional monitoring and evaluation has long been constrained by its own design — extractive, periodic, and narrow in scope. This session reimagines what evaluation can be, and who it can serve. As AI unlocks new possibilities for listening at scale, we explore how conversational, voice-based, and continuous sensing tools are shifting M&E away from snapshot data collection toward something far more dynamic: an ongoing dialogue with the communities and systems we seek to understand. Rather than asking pre-defined questions and extracting predetermined answers, AI-powered approaches can surface open perspectives, capture unintended outcomes, and track the kind of complex, networked change that traditional frameworks routinely miss — including agency, exponential shifts, and interactions within systems. Equally important is AI's potential to democratise evaluation itself — not just data collection, but analysis, interpretation, and decision-making — placing these capabilities in the hands of those closest to the work. By unbundling evaluation from its conventional constraints, we open space to ask better questions: What is actually changing? For whom? And how do we know?
Presentador/a
| Nombre | Título | Biografía |
|---|---|---|
| Vyjayanthi Mala | Chief, Open Learning Network | Vyjayanthi Mala is Chief of the Open Learning Network at the Centre for Exponential Change, where she works on making “Societal Thinking” practices accessible to change leaders through open resources, communities, and learning experiences. A climate action enthusiast with a background in community building and communications, she curates stories, tools, and peer spaces that help practitioners across sectors design for scale, resilience, and shared ownership in their work. |
| Rucha Pande | Founder, CoLab Global | Rucha Pande is the Founder of CoLab Global, a learning and collaboration space that brings together education practitioners, researchers, and system leaders to explore how complex change happens in public education systems. Through her experience as Chief Operating Officer at Mantra4Change, she has helped build programmes and partnerships across multiple states, strengthening leadership development, collective action, and ecosystem collaborations such as the Punjab Education Collective. With a decade of work in the education sector and an MA in Education from Azim Premji University, she specialises in designing for scale, nurturing communities of practice, and translating field insights into practical tools for systems change |
| Aishwarya Rastogi | Head, Data and Impact Measurement, ShikshaLokam | Aishwarya Rastogi serves as Head of Impact Measurement and Data Analysis at ShikshaLokam, where she works on strengthening education leadership at scale through data-informed strategy and interoperable digital public goods. Her work spans some of India’s most challenging geographies, enabling locally driven improvement programs in partnership with state systems. She is a practitioner working at the intersection of systems change and collective social innovation. With over nine years of experience in India’s public education system, she has designed and scaled leadership-focused solutions in partnership with state governments, supporting systemic change across diverse and complex contexts. In addition, Aishwarya works with the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship as a consultant, contributing to the global narrative on collective social innovation and exploring how trust, cross-sector collaboration, and system orchestration can accelerate impact. |