Motorola demonstates e-education project at Rashtrapati Bhavan in Delhi
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In a meeting with the Hon’ble President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Motorola demonstrated e-education project at Rashtrapai Bhavan through its wireless broadband solution.
The Hon’ble president interacted live with the students at the underprivileged school in South Delhi. This initiative will enable school children in remote areas access to quality education. Using its technology, Motorola, will connect teachers and students by providing real time video and audio feeds to a cluster of recipient’s schools from a classroom in a nodal point. Motorola will be responsible for providing broadband wireless link and the computer software for connecting nodal and recipient school. The curricula and the content will be provided by the nodal school and made compatible to the Internet through a ngo partner. Motorola has chosen Ritanjali as the ngo partner for the first pilot in Delhi. Mr.V Ponraj,Director-Technology Interface, at Rashtrapati Bhavan said, “We have seen a demonstration link between the Rashtrapati Bhavan and the shools,12 kms away from here.” Mr.Amit Sharma, Vice-President, Regional Management, South& Southeast Aia, Motorola Inc. said “Motorola proposes to launch this exciting project in a phased out manner. We foresee up to four pilots to longer haul CSR initiatives.” Professor N Ramachandran, Director-Periyar PURA project, said, “To start with, we will connect 65 villages under PURA project using this effective solution.” This technology will be deployed in both pre-designated nodal and recipient schools. For most students, this will be first real education opportunity accessible to them. The initiative will bridge the gap in primary and secondary education standards between schools in rural and urban areas. This tie in directly with the government’s accent on e-education, to address a major need have the country and producing intellectuals. Source: The Pioneer |
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