Researcher from Kerala part of 20 young innovators

MIT Technology Review India announces India TR35 list of young Technology Innovators
under 35 for 2012

Kochi, March 22, 2012

A young Kerala innovator -- Unni Koroth of Foradian Technologies, Kasaragod -- has been
chosen to the MIT Technology Review’s India TR35 list of young Technology Innovators under
35 for 2012 for developing open source platform for institute management.

Unni Koroth, 26, cofounded the Internet startup Foradian Technologies to launch Fedena, an
open source student information system built on Ruby on Rails web development framework
which now has more than 7 million users in over 100 countries.

The startup was also the first to launch the Rupee Foradian Font for the new Indian Rupee
symbol which was downloaded over 20 million times.

Koroth has built Fedena, a multipurpose school or campus management software, which can
be used by educational institutions for all administrative and management activities. The
software can be used by schools and colleges and can be scaled up to suit requirements of
universities and training centers.

Fedena can help head of institutions to track and monitor all activities of students and the
institute. It can also facilitate smooth transfers among different institutions as well as in
preparation of certificates, generating various reports related to students, parents, teachers
and non-teaching staff, preparation of examination database, preparation of integrated
timetable, and more.

“The open source software is a cloud based software that can be accessed by users
through a browser, for free. It is now available in Spanish, Chinese, Mongolian, and
Arabic, with more translations underway,” says Koroth.

Koroth will present his innovation to an audience of 500 innovators including six outstanding
scientists and researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at the fourth
emerging technologies conference of MIT Technology Review’s, EmTech India, starting March
27 at Bangalore.

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