Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Monday, October 27, 2008
Literacy & Mobile...
found the following with reference to my earlier post on literacy and the role of mobile services...
Tata Literacy has been working on the idea of extending their CBFL program on mobile platform. felt really good see this on the web... i wish them all the best in this endeavour. these guys are really doing a great work... and even greater service to the nation...
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Literacy & Mobile
was thinking... on the applicability of reach that the mobile and mobile networks has into the rural hinterlands...
if we can use mobile as the device ... as the magic lamp as Mr Rajesh Jain refers to... this magical device can be used to send educational snippets daily onto the learners... here in focus the illiterates... people who do not have yet the ability to read and write would require technology/application that would convert text-to-speech and speech-to-text on basic mobile phones...with multiple language options...
the education service provider/social organization, say like the Tata Literacy's Computer-Based Functional Literacy (CBFL) program... can use the mobile services to send across their literacy modules to learners... SMS being the prime method... and then the application will convert the text to speech...
a daily SMS... on some aspect ... like alphabet/numbers/words/basic calculation will help make people literated within a small time span... and rural india is already getting hooked to the mobile for both connectivity and business prposes.
Mobile with SMS with speech conversion applications with vernacular language capabilities...will then prove to be the bed-rock on which we can have a literate india... and it is just the beginning.... all lot of further services will then follow....
probably the mobile service provider may buy the idea of giving the service free ... for a period of say 3/6 months... by which the user will become at least moderately capable of reading/writing... and once she/he gets hooked to the power of literacy... she/he will be using the SMS and other data services for the rest of their lives...
what say you... i find to be a killer application ... with wide applicability... with great social value... and eventually even greater business value...
Monday, September 29, 2008
Next is What?.... EDUCATION....
recently read a post by Cyrus Driver on potential of education as a big investment destination. indian consumer is in-fact price in-sensitive towards cost of education within his/her affordability limits. the point to focus on is the affordability limit of each cross-section of consumer. be it some body earning 2000 rs/month or someone earning 2 lacs/month, the household will give education top priority and will seek the best within the affordability limits, be it the basic tuition fees, or the other supplementary expenses.
providers of the various category of education related service need to create products/services according to the affordability limits of each of these house-hold segments. only then the provider and the consumer will get maximum benefit...
TECH.SOCIAL.3
Social Networks Monetized Revenue
From: Silkcharm, 1 day ago
My presentation to WebDirections 2008 (wds08) on social network and social media valuations, revenue streams and monetization (monetisation). Blog post here http://silkcharm.blogspot.com/2008/09/social-media-monetization-and-revenue.html
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The Future of Work
The future of work
From: whatidiscover, 3 days ago
The future of work
Andrea Saveri
http://nlabnetworks.typepad.com/nlab_social_networks_conf/files/saveri_future_of_work_seminar_18june08_ioct.ppt
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HEALTH.TECH.SOCIAL.1
Health and Medicine on the Net: An Overview of 1.0 to 2.0 Consumer Offerings
From: Stuie, 2 days ago
Net options varying from 1.0 to 2.0 in the world of consumer health and medicine
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TECH.IN.EDUCATION.3
HEALTHCARE.1
Take care of your heart
From: prestiva, 2 years ago
http://isagenix.prestiva.com
http://blog.prestiva.com
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HEALTHCARE.AFFORDABLE.1
Vaatsalya - A Healthcare Social Enterprise
From: vaatsalya, 7 months ago
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TECH.SOCIAL.2
Web Technology Trends for 2008 and Beyond
From: ricmac, 6 months ago
Richard MacManus looks at the top trends covered on ReadWriteWeb in early 2008; such as Websites becoming web services, Semantic Apps, Open Data, Mobile Web, Recommendation Engines.
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TECHNOLOGY.SOCIAL.1
Affordable Quality Education
Thoughts on Universal education...
for a moment lets focus on a few key figures...
GDP: 600 bn
Population: 1 bn
Per capita income: 600 dollars ~ 25000 rupees
Per capita income per month ~ 2000 rupees
So what we are talking of is providing affordable quality education to the tens of millions of children belonging to these average income households. Cynics may disagree with this average figure – quoting a much lower figure, or much higher as GDP may not cover the hidden incomes, but I would stick to it for broad decision purposes.
Now that we have decided on the monthly income of a household, lets get down to some more numbers. Out of these 2000 rupees, the majority will go towards food, housing, clothes, loan re-payments etc. But major surveys have come out with the top priority of Indian households. Number One goes to Food and Number Two goes to Education. Lets concentrate now on these two key things - Food & Education and their impacts. Food is needed to sustain the present, and education is needed to create the future.
If Education is priority number Two, then it will not be out of place to discover that the household will try its best to take out a portion of its total income to invest in something that could help create a better future. Probably 10% could be a figure one can arrive at. So what an average household has is 200 rupees to spend on its children’s’ education. And this is the total figure. Assuming that average number of kids being 2, the per-child expenditure comes to be 100 rupees. And this should include not just tuition, but also books & stationary.
Agenda – provide affordable quality education at 100 rupees per child per month, covering tuition fees, books & stationary. The education model has to arrive at this figure, and be profitable to sustain itself in the long run, at these price points in the short to medium term. I would take this period to be whole of a generation getting through a period by which it becomes employable (approx 15 years).
The affordable part has been looked into. Lets now look into the Quality angle. What goes into providing a quality education?
Physical Infrastructure – Closed Space/ Open Space
Intellectual Infrastructure – Instructor intensive/ Learner Intensive
Technological Infrastructure – Blackboard/ Machine based
Sunday, September 28, 2008
TECH.IN.EDUCATION.2
RSS in Education
From: leonardstern, 2 years ago
A powerpoint heralding the uses of RSS in Education.
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EDUCATION.1
Education 2.0
From: cbetta, 2 years ago
These are the slides I used for my Education 2.0 presentation at BarCampLondon2
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MY.ENVIRONMENT.2
Amazing Amazon
From: gauperes, 2 months ago
A presentation about the Amazon forest. It shows how impressive the forest is. Not only because of its natural beauty, but also because of its ongoing devastation.
The presentation highlights the need for changes, so we can prevent the Amazon forest extinction.
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THIRST
From: jbrenman, 2 months ago
This is an educational presentation exploring humanity's water use and the emerging worldwide water shortage. It is designed to act as a stand-alone presentation. Enjoy!
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MY.ENVIRONMENT
Nature Matters (or How to save the planet)
From: henriquealves, 2 months ago
A series of tips on how to save the environment. Bear in mind this presentation was created by my son but because he isn't 18 years old yet, I'm posting it here for him.
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I'd love to hear your thoughts about the presentation on the comments. Go ahead and comment!
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