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VIIT, Baramati : World Ahead Community

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Baramati is a tier 4 town in Pune District— underserved in terms of ICT

access to citizens and usage of IT to deliver access to urban benefits and

skills. This project by World Ahead Community has been implemented with the

objective of delivering benefits through technology-based solutions in areas

critical to socioeconomic growth: Education, Entrepreneurship, Women

Empowerment, Healthcare, e-governance. This implementation has been done along

with local partners and the local government.

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Under these areas implementations like Remote Diagnostics at PHC at RUI,

which is a telehealth project, Mobile PC-Labs which have education content

covering 49 rural schools and the Intel Teach Program which trains teachers to

be more effective educators using technology have been made. There are also 200

computer training centres run by women entrepreneurs from local self help groups

where 10,000 women have been trained till now.

Industry partners (members of Intel's World Ahead Alliance) led by Intel

executed all projects in partnership with VIIT (Vidyaprathisthan Institute of

Information Technology).



Project Specs


Project Head: Amol Goje, Director

Deployment Location:

Baramati

Tech Used:

Hardware: Server - Intel C2D E6300, Intel 946 GZ ISSL MBD Schiller's

Samvid ECG Machine, Digital Weighing Machine, Cisco Network Router

Software: an. SN Tele ECG.:

Application developed on Windows platform,

Implementation

Partner




Srinivas Tadigadapa, Intel

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