|
Targeting
the Remote, the Rural and the Disadvantaged |
| Project |
Initiator/s |
Target
Population |
Goals |
How IT is
used |
URL/E-mail |
| ASHA-2005 |
Science Awareness Trust (SAT) |
Illiterate
adults and rural youths of Nagrota Surian block of Himachal Pradesh |
To
spread literacy and train rural youth |
The
Devnagri script is used in computers to promote adult literacy. Rural
youth are trained in computer
applications. |
secy_it@hp.nic.in |
| Community
Learning Centres |
Govt
of Karnataka and Azim Premji Foundation |
Students from Government
Schools in Karnataka |
To enhance elementary
education and increase computer literacy among poor children through the
setting up of Community Learning Centres in government schools |
Computers are installed for
teaching curriculum to the children through interactive games and
exercises |
www.azimpremi
jifoundation
.org/clc.htm |
| Computer
Aided Design of Artisanal Goods |
AsCent Online Marketing |
Artisans of Belgaum’s
Athani and Nippani regions |
To develop business skills,
entrepreneurship and create employment among artisans |
Computer aided Design (CAD)
systems |
www.toeholdindia.com |
| Computer
Based Functional Literacy |
Tata Council for Community
Initiatives |
Villagers of Beeramguda
village in Medak district of Andhra Pradesh |
To explain to rural
illiterate audiences how individual alphabets combine to give structure
and meaning to various words |
PCs/flashcards are used as
teaching aids. PCs delivers the lessons in multimedia form to the
learners. Flashcards support the process |
www.tataliteracy.com |
| Cybermohalla |
SARAI and Ankur |
Youth aged between 15-23
years from a working class settlement in Delhi |
To create nodes of popular
digital culture in the mohallas or bye- lanes of Delhi |
A small media lab called
Compughar is run on free software and low cost media equipment |
www.sarai.net |
| Deepalaya’s
SchoolNet |
Deepalaya |
Slum children of New Delhi
and underprivileged children of Haryana |
To network School-Net,
Deepalaya’s IT enabled educational program, with its educational centres
for slum and poor children |
School-Net is an e-mail
network, through which school children can ask questions related to their
studies over the Internet |
www.deepalaya.net |
| Goa
Schools Computer Project |
Mr. Daryl Martyris and a
loose network of individuals |
Government Secondary School
children |
To improve the levels of
computer literacy and computer access to students in Goa |
The project is currently
trying out both computer-aided learning for school curriculum and also
allowing access to the local community after school hours. |
http://groups.yahoo.com
/group/gscp;
www.goasudharop.org |
| Hole-in-the-Wall |
NIIT |
Disadvantaged children
belonging to rural and urban areas from Delhi, Karnataka, West Maharashtra
and Uttaranchal |
To reach out to non-elite
children and provide them a non-instructive environment that promotes
self-learning through IT |
A computer and connection to
the Internet are provided with basic applications and games |
www.niit.com |
| Iccha—Intel
Computer Club House |
Katha |
Slum children from the
Govindpuri slums of Delhi |
To address economic and
social needs of slum children and women |
Katha
has a learning centre for adults and two labs for the 1200 pupil-school,
wherein the community, including illiterate women train in and use IT |
www.katha.org |
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