Bala Swecha-Bridging the Digital Divide
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5,000 / 76,000 Around 22 million students
attend these schools
Focus on: Computer education
rather than Computer aided
education
Number of schoolswith computers
Proprietary hardware & software • Vendor lock-in • Expensive licences
Constraints:
Constraints with NComputing: • Proprietary technology • Vendor lock-in • Licences • Old software
N-Computing
Implementation in schools
1500 Student Volunteers
200 GLUGsWith a reach of 20,000 students
IT Volunteers at Swecha
Virtual lab applications:
Math:• Geogebra • Tux Math • KBruch
Science:• Density • Free fall tower • Weight and Mass • Human Atlas • Levers • Pulleys • Step • Kalzium
Social:• Kgeography • Stellarium • Celestia
English:• Artha • kAnagram • Conjugate
Programming:• kTurtle • Scratch
And a lot more…