Digital literacy in Pakistan
See how WALI approaches first-contact digital learning through local access, practical skills, and repeated community participation.
Ahmed Abad Wang • Lasbela • Balochistan
WALI
Accessible technology. Local innovation. Lasting change.
WALI is an innovation-led social enterprise that uses technology to expand access, develop local talent, and create opportunities for underserved communities. Rooted in Lasbela and connected to the world, we turn innovation into meaningful social and economic change.
Innovation — accessible products and practical solutions shaped by real community needs
Access — technology, skills, and learning without barriers of language, location, or resources
Change — local talent connected with markets, opportunity, and the wider world
Why WALI exists
Technology should expand who gets to participate.
WALI removes barriers to technology, language, skills, and markets so underserved communities can turn access into participation, opportunity, and lasting change.
Community foundation
WANG provides the foundation: trust, field presence, girls' access, proven accountability, and long-term community relationships in places most systems overlook.
Social-impact technology
WALI combines an active innovation lab with talent development, accessible technology, and market-connected services that support long-term community impact.
Products and pathways
Urdu AI makes AI accessible to everyone, while WALI Studio and WALI Zamindar connect local talent, knowledge, and ideas with wider markets and livelihoods.
WALI in motion
An innovation lab where access becomes opportunity.
People gather at WALI to learn together, test new ideas, build useful solutions, and connect local ability with opportunities beyond geography.
Explore WALI's work
Go deeper into accessible technology and community-led innovation.
Practical guides and focused stories explain how WALI turns access into learning, livelihoods, and locally useful technology.
AI education in Urdu
The Urdu AI education page explains the language-access model and Dost facilitator network.
Women’s digital skills in Pakistan
The women’s digital skills page shows how WIRE links digital access with livelihoods and girls’ education.
FAQ
The FAQ page answers the most common questions about programs, initiatives, and partnership routes.
Resources
The resources page gathers reports, case studies, and public materials in one place.
WALI products
Three focused pathways from access to opportunity.
Each product removes a different barrier for underserved communities: language, market connection, or access to useful agricultural technology.
WALI's flagship product: AI for everyone. Urdu AI makes artificial intelligence understandable and useful through familiar language, practical learning, and local facilitators.
Explore Urdu AIA talent and market-connection pathway helping people build practical skills, develop credible work, and connect with clients, mentors, and wider opportunities.
Explore WALI StudioTechnology for agriculture and livelihoods, connecting farmers with practical knowledge, agricultural expertise, digital tools, and stronger market pathways.
Explore WALI Zamindar
Inside the lab
The lab is a working environment for first-contact digital learning, a space built for learning.
The work is practical and repeated by design: digital literacy for children, youth, and women, confidence building for first-time learners, and guided exposure to tools that support jobs, education, enterprise, and personal development.
- Computer literacy, office tools, and core digital confidence
- AI exposure, applied training, and simple-Urdu learning pathways
- Community sessions for children, girls, youth, women, and first-time learners
Partnerships and impact
The work speaks through partnerships, platforms, and daily activity.
Partner support, public impact platforms, and year-round learning show what WALI delivers on the ground.
Internet Society partnership
Internet Society's public storytelling already positions WALI as a community-led, solar-powered, high-speed internet learning space helping rural girls and youth access digital opportunity close to home.
Digital camps with daily rhythm
WALI runs year-round learning sessions, showing that the lab is active, locally embedded, and built for repeated community use rather than one-off events.
Urdu AI now shows a national footprint
Urdu AI turns WALI's local origin into a wider learning network, connecting Urdu-speaking communities with practical AI education and local facilitation.
WIRE makes women's innovation visible
WIRE brings a mother-daughter model to rural Balochistan, pairing solar-powered production with girls' digital learning and pathways to more inclusive livelihoods.
Watch the work
See the work for yourself.
These videos show the lab's work from WANG's own channel and independent coverage.
WALI on YouTube · 3:21
Creating Impact with AI
Young people show how accessible AI learning can turn rural talent into confidence, practical skills, and opportunity.
WANG on YouTube
Urdu AI Workshop by WANG
Free AI training in Urdu for youth and women in Balochistan.
WANG on YouTube
Digital Literacy for Girls in Balochistan
A direct view into WALI's digital learning environment for girls in rural Pakistan.
Internet Society
Girls in Rural Pakistan Are Tackling Inequality Using the Internet
An Internet Society documentary placing WALI's work in a wider global story about girls and digital access.
National footprint
Urdu AI is now visible as a national learning network.
The Urdu AI impact platform makes district coverage, facilitator presence, and learning access visible in one place. It shows how a movement that began in rural Balochistan is now reaching communities across Pakistan in simple Urdu.
- A growing network for Urdu-language AI learning and local facilitation
- Practical learning designed for people usually excluded by language or location
- Public pathways that help learners and partners connect with the movement
Programs and services
WALI runs practical programs that rural communities, schools, and institutions can actually use.
Digital literacy camps, youth support, applied training, and field research all sit inside one working lab in Lasbela. The point is not activity for its own sake. The point is building useful pathways people can carry into school, work, enterprise, and community life.
Digital literacy camps
Youth resource centre
Training and research
Digital literacy and first-contact learning
WALI teaches digital literacy skills to children, youth, and women so they can use those abilities in jobs, academics, enterprise, and everyday life.
Youth, enterprise, and institutional pathways
The lab also serves as a youth resource centre and business development site, supporting scholarship searches, job hunting, career guidance, and enterprise learning for high school and college students in Lasbela.
Training, consulting, and data support
WALI offers in-house and out-of-house training, digital and soft-skills consulting, and research support through a wider network of data collectors and supervisors across Balochistan.
Work with WALI
Let's talk to create an impact.
WALI brings together digital learning, community connectivity, women's innovation, school systems, and applied research in one place — built for partners who want long-term local impact and initiatives that can grow with communities.
Built for transparency and partnership
- A solar-powered, community-led lab where people learn, experiment, and build
- Public programmes and learning resources that make the work visible
- Rooted in Ahmed Abad Wang, Bela, with initiatives designed to travel beyond Lasbela