World Ahead program is a global initiative from Intel, to improve lives of people living in developing communities by providing them easy access to technology. This is the first implementation in India under this project which is done at
Baramati, a tier 4 town in Pune. World Ahead is a community where ICT enabled
solutions in the areas of Education, Healthcare, shared access etc are
implemented with the objective of providing easy access to its citizens. This is
done by the industry along with local partners and govt. facilitation. In
Baramati five usage Models have been Implemented. Lets take a look at them one
by one.
Remote Diagnostics at Rui Hospital
A tele-diagnostic facility has been implemented at Rui Hospital in Baramati.
This hospital has been connected to Narayan Hridayalaya in Bangalore and Aravind
Eye Hospital. Being collaborated with Narayan Hridayalaya, Rui hospital is able
to provide cardiac care to citizens of Baramati. ECGs are taken and sent for
diagnosis to Narayan Hridayalaya and diagnosis results are returned by Narayan
Hirdayala within 10 minutes. Collaboration with Aravind eye hospital is to
provide Ophthalmic diagnosis services where images of eyes is examined by
ophthalmic surgeons at Aravind eye hospital and results are sent back with an
hour. Now almost 150 -200 out patients being registered every day. On an
average, 5 patients on every working day are diagnosed by Narayan Hridayalaya
for Cardiac care, and almost 10 — 15 patients are diagnosed by Aravind Eye
hospital for eye care.
Mobile PC Labs
With the aim to provide computer education to children living in Baramati
and its nearby rural areas, Mobile PC Van initiative was taken up. These vans
are basically buses equipped with PCs along with 2 trainers for each bus. A
total of 5 Vans were deployed which cover 49 rural schools in and around
Baramati. So far 7936 students have been reached under this project. With this
project students have become more aware of IT opportunities and schools are
experiencing reduction in school drop out rates. Moreover students are doing
projects using computers and educating their parents (largely farmers) on using
technology to improve their knowledge on farm productivity.
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School Health Monitoring System
This usage model addresses the issue of malnutrition among children in India
by identifying undernutritioned children and providing them and their parents
correct dietary directions. School Health Monitoring System is a Web-based
solution which provides children faculty benefits such as digitized health
records and health camps with participatory, action-based health learning etc.
The solution helps to keep track of basic health parameters of students
according to WHO provided age metrics. A central online database is created for
all students and a 'health card' is provided to every student.
A health scout is assigned for every 30 students which in turn is assisted by
teachers. They are trained to check the height, weight, common signs and
symptoms of nutritional deficiencies and data entry.
The observations are noted down on the health card of every student and
uploaded to the central server.
ICT training by Self Help Groups VIIT manages 200 computer training centers
in more than 110 Taluks in Maharashtra. These centers are run by women
entrepreneurs from Local Self Help Groups. Each center usually has 3-5 PCs which
are used to provide computer literacy to women from the surrounding community
for an affordable fee of Rs 165/-. Approximately 10,000 women have been trained
so far.
Intel Teach Program
Under this program Intel trains teachers to be more effective educators by
training them on how to integrate technology into their lessons, promoting
problem solving, and critical thinking and collaboration skills among their
students. So far 500 teachers have been trained through this program across 15
schools in Baramati benefiting thousands of students.
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