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From the News Desk
Tuesday, 29. January 2008
Tata Indicom Forms Alliance to Launch Mobile Education
With a view to boost up remote teaching and learning, a mobile education is on the track to reach the masses for rural communities and physically challenged people.
Tata Tele Services (TCS) accompanying SNDT Women’s University, Atom Tech (Any transaction on mobile), and Indian PCO Teleservices Limited PTL) have entered into a strategic alliance to spread education through mobile for communities particularly belonging to rural areas and physically challenged.
Under this model, the mobile phone transforms itself from a mere device that allows users access to voice and text messaging the one that proffers accredited educational content and takes mock tests on the move, regardless of geographies or physical constraints.
In this alliance, the work department has been distributed among partners as the SNDT University would develop content and manage it. While the Tata Indicom will work for a carrier on its service channels, Atom Technologies will provide the intermediary Interface and IPTL will provide the service distribution and dissemination system.
Announcing the launch of the service, S M Krishna, Governor of Maharashtra, said, “I am delighted and privileged to be a part of this great moment to examine a new paradigm in education. We are at a very interesting time where the digital revolution has suddenly and silently arrived with its many opportunities. This is a novel idea to create the application and undertaking it to propagate it across the country.”
The M-Education will offer contemporary content to students and do away with the need to visit physical schools and colleges, thus bridging the physical distances using CDMA technology.
At the outset the mobile service will be available only in two languages - Hindi and English, but the alliance partner pledges the facility will be expanded soon in multiple regional languages.
Tata Tele Services (TCS) accompanying SNDT Women’s University, Atom Tech (Any transaction on mobile), and Indian PCO Teleservices Limited PTL) have entered into a strategic alliance to spread education through mobile for communities particularly belonging to rural areas and physically challenged.
Under this model, the mobile phone transforms itself from a mere device that allows users access to voice and text messaging the one that proffers accredited educational content and takes mock tests on the move, regardless of geographies or physical constraints.
In this alliance, the work department has been distributed among partners as the SNDT University would develop content and manage it. While the Tata Indicom will work for a carrier on its service channels, Atom Technologies will provide the intermediary Interface and IPTL will provide the service distribution and dissemination system.
Announcing the launch of the service, S M Krishna, Governor of Maharashtra, said, “I am delighted and privileged to be a part of this great moment to examine a new paradigm in education. We are at a very interesting time where the digital revolution has suddenly and silently arrived with its many opportunities. This is a novel idea to create the application and undertaking it to propagate it across the country.”
The M-Education will offer contemporary content to students and do away with the need to visit physical schools and colleges, thus bridging the physical distances using CDMA technology.
At the outset the mobile service will be available only in two languages - Hindi and English, but the alliance partner pledges the facility will be expanded soon in multiple regional languages.
