About | Technovation

We envision a world where great ideas come from everywhere.

Where access to skills, tools, and opportunity means that the people closest to problems can build and benefit from the solutions. The teams with the widest range of lived experience see what others miss, and build what others can’t.

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Building starts with believing you are capable of great things.

Most people don’t fail because they lack ideas and talent, they don’t start because they can’t see what’s possible. Technovation is built on the understanding that confidence is foundational. When people see someone like them who’s done it before, a path of achievable steps, a community that surrounds them with encouragement, then they build things that will change the world. The proof is in 20 years of outcomes.

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Twenty years of building, through every wave of technology.

In 2006, aerospace engineer Tara Chklovski founded Technovation on a premise she’d seen proven in her own life: fear of the unknown gives way to curiosity once you understand how things work. What started as an effort to bring engineering to underserved communities has evolved through every major technology wave into a global ecosystem reaching 160 countries.

Technology changes. The approach doesn’t need to: find a real problem, build a real solution, grow in the process.

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Nonprofit by design.

We are a nonprofit because what we create belongs to the people who use it. We provide the path. You own what you build on it.

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The tools are catching up to the talent.

The barriers to building have never been lower. AI, increased global connectivity, and open platforms mean that a person with the right skills and support can go from idea to working product to viable business from anywhere.

That changes who gets to build, and it changes what gets built. Right now, distance, cultural barriers, and entrenched systems still determine who gets access to the skills and networks that matter. For twenty years we’ve been operating in the places those systems leave behind. We know what the path looks like.

Technology is power. We put it in more hands, and trust people to build what their communities actually need. This is what we were made for. This is what you can help build.

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In good company.

Our partners work with us because we offer something they can’t build themselves: 20 years of trust in 160 countries, a 500,000-person community of builders, and longitudinal data nobody else has on what works.

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