My sCool Server - Govt. Dept. Presentation

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The Reality Check

● ICT in education is the norm and not an option

● The world is looking towards India for deliverance because of its demographic dividend

● Approx 50 crore youth are going to enter the professional stream in the next decade

● At least 17.5 crore of them need to be proficient in computer usage

● Computer literacy in India is at an abysmal low of < 7%

● Commendable efforts of the govt. & educational institutes are only partially yielding results, it at all

● Computers deployed at 20,000+ schools of Gujarat are only partially operational

● Karnataka’s earlier attempt to disseminating computer literacy failed

● Huge amount of great educational content is not conveniently accessible to the intended audience


Hit or Miss

Write off 300+ crores of past investment w/o having met objective (Gujarat)

Or

Let clueless despondency set in with sub-optimal solutions

Or

Explore an opportunity to become the front-runner in IT-enabled education

and digital inclusion with well directed minimal impetus


The Opportunity

Existing computer infrastructure / prospective e-waste

can be brought to life to assist the efforts towards these objectives -

Computer literacy & digital inclusion

Student enrolment, engagement & retention

Increase learning outcomes


The Myth

The personal computer will be replaced by tablets and mobiles

● Saturation – evolution of software and hardware means PCs don’t need to be replaced as often

● Misinterpretation of trends (2013-2014 Source: Gartner)

● Statcounter browser usage - 71.89% desktop, 22.42% mobiles and 5.69% tablets

● More tablets were being sold but rate of growth slowed down from 87.1% to 28.2% y-on-y

● Increased growth was in low end tablets market which no where match up to PC power

● Horses for the courses

● Tablets/phablets are an added convenience

● Writing, coding, editing images, doing CAD work, doing other productive work — or even playing PC games — there’s a good chance you depend on a mouse and keyboard

● Agreed - Lines are blurring between PCs and mobile devices but the PC form can’t be replaced yet


Hurdle One

Maintaining a stable and consistent computer infrastructure at a low cost

● Plug ‘n play appliance - makes computer labs of 15 – 50 computers useful instantly

● Suited for almost all current school (Gujarat) computer lab environments

● New or add-on capacity - Prospective e-waste from govt. offices and corporates can be made useful. Even new hardware procurement is possible at comparatively very low rates.

● Inbuilt easy restore options with minimal external dependency to ensure maximum classroom uptime


Hurdle Two

Delivering educational infrastructure and content effectively to the students

● Curriculum prescribed applications to all student computers in less than a minute

● Offline educational content hosting engine – Pre-loaded with huge quality offline content

● Learning/computing interface can be suited to vernacular preferences

● Scalable and evolutionary to meet needs of futuristic learning methods


Hurdle Three

Ensuring student and teacher engagement and learning continuity

● Integrated monitoring, remote-control and broadcasting application to assist teachers

● Facilitates self-training of teachers and self-paced and guided learning for students

● Possibility of measuring learning outcomes in real-time at micro and macro levels

● Ease of taking the computing environment in your pocket ensures continuity in learning


Hurdle FourSafeguard public spending

● Opensource solution

● Inherent benefits of the ecosystem with zero vendor lock-in

● Minimal hardware deployment for maximum effect

● Existing infrastructure can be utilised fully

● Huge amounts of probable e-waste can be put to effective use to increase student:computer ratio

● Evolutionary rather than big-bang, greenfield, “replace all” approach

● Computer learning which can be evolved to computer-aided-learning


The Impact

● Far reaching socio-economic impact

● Path to piracy-free productivity

● Demystifies Linux and opensource computing – nurtures a culture of sharing and creativity

● Makes IT accessible and fun while achieving national ICT learning objectives

● An easy and cost-effective step forward from just IT-education to IT-enabled education


The Validation

● Govt to Govt-aided to private schools have experienced their need being satisfied

● Students and teachers have voiced their opinion positively for this solution

● Commissioner of Schools, Secondary Education department, Govt. Of Gujarat has approved a pilot

● Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, Gujarat team has acknowledged its possible effectiveness

● NDBI, a DST, GoI funded, NID, Ahmedabad based incubation centre has validated its innovative quotient and provided a letter of support


The Innovation - Disruptive Quotient

● Creation of Li-f-e: Linux for Education OS distribution

● The glue that puts together all the pieces to form the integrated whole

● Ready for mass deployment, hence economies of scale guaranteed

● Environment and pocket friendly technology - lowers TCO and increases ROI

● Market for AMCs, entry level hardware, licensed OS and antivirus licenses disrupted


Thank You

Our true innovation is our vision that has taken shape in the form of My sCool Server, a beginning.

Humbly proud, determined and seeking your support.

- The My sCool Server team

- Shrenik Bhura

- Jigish Gohil

- Manoj Dhadha

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