Problems

FACTS

Teachers’ content knowledge was in many cases inadequate when compared against a standard 4 curriculum - UN sponsored study conducted by Pratham, a NGO

Selecting candidates with the best possible academic qualifications does not automatically ensure that they know how to teach young children. But teachers’ ability to teach, as measured by a simple teaching capability assessment, is correlated with higher student achievement - UN sponsored study conducted by Pratham, a NGO

95 per cent of the rural population living in 826,000 habitations has a primary school within 1 km

85 per cent of the population has an upper primary school within 3 km

HOW IT WORKS?

1. RHoK engages Virtual Teachers as volunteers

2. RHoK engages Primary schools with the required infrastructure

3. RHoK work as a facilitator for Private and Public Partnership

4. Virtual Teachers impart training online (via Phone and Internet) as per the curriculum design by SCERT

5. Website allows to schedule the programs

6. Self-Registration

7. Run the pre-loaded Videos

8. Enrollment by the administrators

Role OF PUBLIC IN PPP

1. Provide a Class room with

   • adequate shade

   • ventilation

   • lighting

   • spaciousness

   • quality finishes

2. Engage the following agencies:

   • State Councils of Educational Research and Training (SCERT)

   • State Institutes of Educational Management and Training (SIEMAT)

   • District Institutes of Education and Training (DIET)

   • Block Resource Centers (BRC)

   • Cluster Resources Centers (CRC)

   • Village Education Committees (VEC)

   • NGOs

   • School Management

Role of PRIVATE in PPP

1. Provide assistance to develop Infrastructure

2. Computers with Web cam, Speaker and mic

3. Projectors

4. Telephone lines with internet connections

5. Speaker Phones

6. Modems

7. White Board

8. Provide feedback to RHoK

Role of VIRTUAL TEACHER

1. Understand the curriculum by self-study of the SCERT Teaching Guide

2. Impart the training to Kids through virtual Rooms and via Phones

3. Make the sessions interactive as possible

4. Provide Feedback to RHoK

5. Strictly adhere to the schedules

Role of STUDENT

1. Ensure attendance

2. Ask question to the Teacher

3. Provide feedback to RHoK

TECHNOLOGY

1. Landline Broadband Services from BSNL

2. Server hosted in a Data Center

3. Cisco WebEx

4. Minimum Infra required at the end of Students and Virtual Teacher

   • ONE Computer/Laptop with Web Cam, Speaker and mic

   • ONE Projector

   • ONE whiteboard/Wall

   • ONE Modem

   • ONE Telephone

    

ADVANTAGES

1. Low Cost Installation

2. Affordable

3. Existing Infrastructure

4. Availability of Skilled Teachers

5. Apprenticeship opportunity for Teachers doing TTC

6. Training opportunity for the Students doing Graduation

CHALLENGES

1. Power Outage

2. Internet Outage

3. Clarity of Videos

4. Telephone Outage

ENHANCEMENTS

1. Edusat instead of BSNL Broadband line

2. Sonet/SDH Transceivers replacing modems

3. Streaming High Definition Videos

Our Thanks to

• Michael Ward, Senior Education Advisor for the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) India Country Programme, based in Delhi

• Ramji Raghavan, Founder and Chairman, Agastya International Foundation

• Suhas Gopinath, CEO & President, Global Inc

• Dr Gururaj Karajagi, Educationist and Chairman, Academy for Creative Teaching

  Hewlett-Packard for providing employees an hour to do volunteer work per week

  Cisco webex for WebEx Technology

Thank you for reading thru.....Looking forward to your support

Data that can assist in tracking corruption is often not clean because of mistakes made when entered manually, low quality of an original source, or scanning non-digital documents. This requires an online platform that can import generic data sets to be editable, tagged, and also allow for tracking of all change history to preserve integrity.

There is no online platform available to solve this problem -given there are hundreds of thousands of records- that easily allows users to import a large data set, and then share permissions with a large group of trusted volunteers to help clean up that data. Integrity is important, so changes and source of changes (the author[s]) needs to be recorded and tracked for every field and row. Finally, it also needs a tagging facility so that users can easily tag rows for various uses such as categorization issues, either by data, or type of information to be extracted.

We need it to be user friendly enough, so that normal users can import the data (often information from spreadsheets or database table dumps) and manage communities of users who clean up this information. They should also be able to easily export this cleaned up data again for others to use. A solution to this problem can help the government clean up data to release it to the public. Citizens can also use it to clean and organize data to improve transparency or research corruption issues.

Additional information:

Some of type of information we can extract from an unclean database to detect corruption:

• Top 1% Construction Companies by Project Value
• Top directors by company project values

If we can clean up this data to be more accurate while preserving integrity by logging all records of changes  in terms of classifications of government departments,misspellings and tagging eg. names of politicians, government vs private sector projects etc. we will be able to extract and map out corruption and abuse of power for Malaysian construction projects.

As advertisers drive not only web content but also discussion topics, the information that is most prevalent on the Internet is not being driven by social need. Other important issues and perspectives can be drowned out or not even addressed because they lack a revenue stream. While traditional media bundles different viewpoints and provide an overall perspective, the unbundling phenomenon of the Web 2.0 leads to an unbalanced perspective. Web 2.0, and we the people are in danger of succumbing to sensationalism and one-sided reporting. 

An aggregator app consolidates information available from different perspectives, and crowd sourcing determines the real issues that are important to the people. The citizen can view topics that are relevant and important to them, and gain an insight into both sides of the story. They can express their opinion and conviction, and view how others feel about the issue. If a topic has been voted on, they can see how their representatives have voted.

Looking at the crowd-sourced data the other way, the representative can see how people within their district feel about a topic, compared with the regional average. This data should be shown graphically. 

International law prohibits arbitrary arrest or detention. Detainees need to be told why they have been held, be able to challenge the lawfulness of their detention with the assistance of an independent lawyer, have their families informed of their whereabouts and to communicate and receive visits from them; they should receive a prompt and fair trial if they are not released.

Data to be shared in case of emergency:-

• At-source or pre-recorded audio or video recording
• At-source or pre-recorded image capture
• E-mails or status updates to a pre-defined list of individuals/social networks
• Location information via GPS or nearest cell
• Battery status