A BBC correspondent goes deep into the forests of the Anamalai Tiger Reserve in Tamil Nadu and finds a more majestic entity than the tiger- a cluster of students learning around a computer, with a teacher teaching them LIVE from 7000 miles away in New Zealand! This is eVidyaloka.
500 million people in India are on the precipice of digital connectivity within the next 5 years. When this hopeful population pours into the more ‘inclusive’ market, will we be able to speak their language?
It is the first week of the year and while it seems like we cannot rush fast enough towards the rest of 2021, we take this transitional moment to pause and reflect, to take our hats off to those that have persevered throughout this year to cope with the challenges it brought.
Today, after over a century of Gandhi’s Satyagraha, the West Champaran district of Bihar is resounding with an echo of a revolution of a different kind. Today, students here battle against the repression of human and infrastructural inequity in education, with an allyship from our non- profit, Turn The Bus.
There has arguably never been a single event in the history of the world that has put a spotlight on ‘digital education’, more than the ongoing COVID19 pandemic has. However, leveraging technology for education is not a novel idea born out of 2020; the acknowledgement of its efficacy has been held in high regard since the 20th century. The pandemic has only bent and twisted the backbone of various education systems globally and while flexible systems are adapting to its challenges, frailties in other systems are being widely exposed.
22 official languages, over 6,000 dialects, one country – that’s India for you. Only a handful of nations in this planet can boast of such diversity. This diversity is going to become the touchstone for companies and organizations aimed at serving the Indian internet users in the next few years.
What do you think a farmer from one of India’s many underpriviledged villages would do if he is provided with internet?
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