Use audio as a tech tool to overcome challenge of illiteracy: Unilever COO February 17, 2021 India must seize the opportunity of skilling, reskilling: Nitin Paranjpe There is a chance for technology to reframe the challenge of illiteracy that India is facing by leveraging the use of audio as a technology tool, said Nitin Paranjpe, Chief Operating Officer, Unilever. He was speaking at the Nasscom Technology & Leadership Forum on Wednesday on the topic ‘Reimagining of future of work: Powered by cloud, data, and security.’ Illiteracy means people cannot contribute economically, and have to lead lives of poverty, he said. The technology that we have today with audio as a tool can completely change the way we think of what literacy is, he said. “You don't have to read and write to be literate. I can listen. I can listen and therefore I can grow intellectually, emotionally, if I'm able to hear. And if people in this industry start thinking in terms of providing inputs to educate people using this (audio) as a medium, I think it could be transformational.”