Education is digital, and responsibility comes with it
Schools, colleges, universities, coaching institutes, skilling organisations and EdTech companies now deliver a large part of their work through software: admissions, classes, homework, assessment, results and communication with families. These systems handle data about children and young people, serve learners with very different devices and needs, and face sharp peaks around admissions, exams and results.
Twara Technologies designs, engineers and operates education platforms that are accessible, fast on modest devices and built around the safeguards that children’s data requires. We build for institutions running their own operations and for EdTech companies building products for learners and teachers.
What we build
Web development
Learning platforms on open-source LMS foundations or custom builds; school, college and campus management systems; admissions portals with document upload and verification; online assessment systems; content authoring tools; analytics dashboards for teachers and leadership.
Mobile app development
Apps for students, parents and teachers covering homework, notices, attendance, timetables, results, fee payment and messaging. Offline downloads for content, and lightweight builds for low-cost phones.
Cloud services
Hosting that scales for admissions, live classes and result publication; content delivery networks for video; managed databases with backups; cost controls between peaks.
AI and machine learning
Tutoring assistants grounded in your own syllabus and content, question generation, marking assistance for subjective answers, and analytics on question difficulty and learning gaps. We design these without behavioural profiling or targeted advertising for children, and keep teachers in control of what learners see.
IoT solutions
Attendance devices, school transport location tracking for parents, and classroom air quality or occupancy sensing.
Support and maintenance
Updates, monitoring and incident handling planned around the academic calendar, with change freezes during exams.
Compliance and data considerations
This section is general information, not legal advice.
Children’s personal data. Under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, a child is anyone under 18 (section 2(f)). Section 9 requires organisations to obtain verifiable consent from a parent or lawful guardian before processing a child’s personal data, must not process it in ways likely to harm the child’s well-being, and must not track, behaviourally monitor or target advertising at children.
The DPDP Rules, 2025 set out how parental consent is verified (rule 10) and, through rule 12 and the Fourth Schedule, exempt some classes of organisation from the consent and tracking provisions under conditions. Educational institutions are exempt for tracking and behavioural monitoring restricted to their educational activities or to the safety of enrolled children. Transport providers engaged by an institution may track children’s location during travel to and from it, for their safety. EdTech companies that are not educational institutions should not assume these exemptions apply to them. These provisions come into force eighteen months after the Rules were published on 13 November 2025.
Security and breaches. Rule 6 requires minimum security safeguards, including encryption, masking or tokens, access control and logs, and rule 7 requires a detailed breach report to the Data Protection Board within 72 hours of becoming aware of a breach.
Accessibility. The W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 define testable success criteria at three conformance levels, A, AA and AAA. We design and test learning platforms against them.
Integrations commonly needed
- Payment gateways for fees, with reconciliation into accounting systems
- Single sign-on and directory services for staff and students
- Video conferencing and live class tools
- SMS, email and messaging services for notices and alerts
- Content libraries and standards-based learning content packages
- Examination, admission and results systems
- School transport GPS and attendance devices
How an engagement typically starts
We start by understanding who uses the system and how: administrators, teachers, students, parents and, for EdTech products, your product and content teams. Discovery covers current tools, academic calendar constraints, the ages of learners, the data you collect and why, and accessibility needs. The output is a written scope, a data-protection design covering consent, minimisation and retention, an architecture recommendation and a delivery plan timed around your academic year.
Where timing matters, such as a launch before admissions, we plan backwards from that date and phase the scope to fit.
Design principles for learning products
- Collect less. Every field about a learner needs a purpose. Data that is not needed is not collected, and data that is no longer needed is deleted on schedule.
- Parents in the loop. For younger learners, consent, settings and communication run through a verified parent or guardian account.
- Teachers stay in control. AI suggestions, auto-marking and recommendations are visible to teachers, who can review and override them.
- Inclusive by default. Captions, transcripts, keyboard access, readable typography and multilingual interfaces are part of the base build, not optional extras.
- Light enough for every learner. Pages and apps are tested on low-cost devices and slow connections before release.
To discuss your plans, get in touch.