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CISCO kicks off first Pilot Project based on CEED
By siliconindia
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Friday, 15 April 2011, 23:23 IST
Bangalore: Cisco announced the first pilot project based on Cisco Education Enabled Development (CEED) platform for its Inclusive Growth architecture. This pilot will deploy specialized remote intervention teaching for two government pre matriculation social welfare boys' hostels in the Shimoga district of Karnataka.
To enable implementation of this pilot, the Government of Karnataka has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Cisco.
The project will be on a Public Private Partnership model where Cisco will deploy its solution and maintain it as a service that includes remote access and support. About 450 students in the two Pre-Matriculation hostels at Vidyanagar and Shikaripura will receive intervention training in English, Math, Social Sciences and Science.
Sessions would be conducted after class for these sixth to tenth standard students. Children's Love castles Trust, a NGO that specializes in pedagogy and providing access to quality teaching for remote government schools using technology, will deliver these training sessions.
Cisco's cloud technology and architecture is the ideal vehicle to achieve inclusive growth. The technology is scalable because it allows rapid aggregation of solutions and addition of participants. Due to the intrinsic nature of cloud technology the solutions are available ubiquitously and therefore replicable. Since the participants of a cloud could choose the services they desire, it is granular. Based on the requirements services can easily be modular.
Cisco's experience with Project Samudaya, an undertaking to work with the Government of Karnataka to rehabilitate the lives of flood-affected communities in the state, propelled it to look at self-sustaining methods to deliver education services ubiquitously.
As part of Project Samudaya about 11 schools were networked to successfully impart remote education to 1500 students. The Corporate Social Responsibility program is using the power of the network, to create a sustainable society where urban amenities, such as quality education and healthcare, are available in remote and rural parts of the country.