Who's being left behind while technology races ahead? Rajveer Singh Jolly asked it in Cape Town in 2018, and Project Future is still working on the answer.
What we believe
The digital divide used to mean a missing cable. Those cables are arriving, slowly, and we're glad of it, but a
connection on its own guarantees very little. Someone can come online tomorrow and meet the internet as a feed, a
scam or a sales funnel long before they meet it as a library or a place to build something of their own.
So we concern ourselves with what happens next. Project Future puts young people in front of headsets, AI and the
ideas underneath them, then asks what they'd make. We'd like them to arrive as authors rather than audiences, and
we think that work starts early, in a classroom, with someone in the room who can answer a question.
Photo by Aniket Uke
Rajveer Singh Jolly
Founder
“My hope? That the next Google, the next Meta, the next game-changing innovation, comes from right here.”
An alumnus of the African Leadership Academy, Rajveer trained as a software engineer at the African Leadership
University, specialising in virtual and augmented reality. In 2016 he was the April Western Cape Lead SA Youth Hero, and the Mail & Guardian
named him one of its 200 Young South Africans.
Rajveer is named the April Western Cape Lead SA Youth Hero, and that June the Mail & Guardian lists him among its 200 Young South Africans.
2018
A headset and an idea
Project Future starts in Cape Town selling VR headsets, and quickly turns into a way of putting new technology in front of young people who had never touched it.
2019
Into the classroom
Learners at Vaaitjies Primary in the Western Cape put on a VR headset for the first time.
2023
A grant and a curriculum
The African Leadership Academy backs the work with an Original Idea for Development grant, and Infinity takes shape as a ten-module course.
2026
Inferra
We release an open map of AI infrastructure across 30 African markets, built for founders, investors and policymakers.
Next
Empowerment through AI
AI and agents move to the centre of the work, so that nobody gets left behind.
