IIIT-H, Agastya tieup to train govt school kids
Focus areas include vernacular language speech based solutions, gamification of learning, remote triggered lab experiments, improved teaching tools, measuring learning effectiveness
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Hyderabad: The International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H) and Bengaluru-based Agastya International Foundation are collaborating to create solutions that will bring innovative, high-quality and high-relevance learning and training to economically disadvantaged schoolchildren.
The partners will jointly identify problems at the grassroots that can be addressed by solutions based on emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), and computer vision. The objective is to help those on the wrong side of the digital divide by leveraging cutting-edge research. The partnership is set up under the aegis of the Raj Reddy Centre on Technology in Service of Society at IIIT-H.
This centre is an initiative of IIIT-H to enable research and emerging technology-led solutions for grassroots level education and public health, with specific emphasis on the rural population. The centre will focus on areas including vernacular language tools, which will provide interactive knowledge access to students with minimal resources, improved teaching tools, gamification of learning through animations, interactive experiments, augmented reality models, and measuring learning effectiveness. Speaking on behalf of IIIT-H, Ramesh Loganathan, Chair Outreach Committee, said: "IIIT-H has always had social good as a key outcome of all research from the institute. With this collaboration, it will address the present problems through emerging research-led technology, deployed and value realised on ground."
