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Tricitynews
Chandigarh 23rd October:- DataWind Innovations Pvt. Ltd., the leader in delivering internet
access to emerging markets, is happy to partner with Sikhi Awareness
Foundation, Canada (an NGO)in their endeavour to providing the best quality
education to the primary schools of Punjab.
APress
conference was held today at the Chandigarh Press Club with Shamandeep Singh,
Founder and CEO of SAF-International and Rupinder Singh, Executive Vice
President- DataWind Innovations Pvt. Ltd. who shared the vision and mission of
their organizations. A demo of the Smart classroom setup was also given.
Presently,
over 300 setups across the state of Punjab have been done. These have been
sponsored by individuals, panchayats, villagers, MLAs, NGOs, organisations as
their CSR initiatives. The target is to get all 13,000 government primary
schools across the state of Punjab to have this setup.
The
set up includes a tablet, with educational content for class 1 to class 5
inclusive of pre-primary class. The content has been approved by PSEB. With
this a projector, speaker set, accessories and on-site teacher training on how
to operate the equipment and upload new content related to syllabus. This will
allow teachers to independently operate the machine.
Rupinder
Singh said that we strongly believe in ‘technology for a
cause’ and our journey is to connect India’s forgotten billion including
empowering children who are the future of the country. DataWind has been
working relentlessly towards reaching out to children who cannot afford good
education, by delivering affordable tablet PCs and good quality
educational content. He added further that this setup as part of the
Smart Punjab project provides support to school teachers in imparting education
in an entertaining and fun way. Touching the lives of the children at primary
level, when they are most receptive to absorbing all what they see and hear,
provides us the motivation to continue striving further. Rupinder
Singh said that our journey that started in 2011 with the
development of the Aakash tablet computer continues with this “sewa” project.
As we look at Digital India, it is imperative that benefits of improved access
to technology and internet reach the very bottom of the pyramid. We believe
that digitalisation should be integrated with the larger objective of meeting
the long-term development goals at the grassroots level.”
Shamandeep
Singh shared that there is a steep decline in enrolments in the government
schools in India, on top of it, dropout and absenteeism rate is rising. He wanted to bring these children back into schooling by creating new interest in
them with this technology.
He shared
further that accessibility to computers allow children to receive a
well-rounded education and gain additional skills to become better prepared for
post-secondary education and future employment. Furthermore, this is an
opportunity for SAF to provide supplementary learning material to provide
children with more holistic education and knowledge.
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