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India 50 years behind on education goals, says UN report

Unesco report states more than 60 million children in India receive little or no formal education It has the highest number of out-of-school students in lower secondary level at 11.1 million. At the upper secondary level, 46.8 million are out of school, while 2.9 million students do not even attend primary school. The report says that… read more »

It’s ‘digital heroin’: How screens turn kids into psychotic junkies

do you hear your kid saying, “I am bored” especially while away from some sort of screen? Scientists called it Technical Addition. We now know that those iPads, smartphones and Xboxes are a form of digital drug.  There’s a reason that the most tech-cautious parents are tech designers and engineers. Steve Jobs was a notoriously… read more »

How MIT ’s mentorship helped craft a 14-year old’s life-saving invention for stampede problem in Kumbha Mela ’15

Meet Nilay Kulkarni, Nashik’s wonder kid: self-taught programmer and student entrepreneur at 17! “It was the first time a real-time technological solution that we built during Kumbhathon was used to measure crowd flow in Kumbh Mela. Ashioto counted 500 thousand people in 18 hours and impacted crowd routing decisions during the event.” — Nilay Kulkarni, student, Founder… read more »

Smart City Apps for Urban Challenges

Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country–the quote by J. F. Kennedy may seem like a bit of a cliché but it holds true in the case of India more than ever before. India’s cultural, economic and social diversity is clearly reflected in her cities… read more »

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