EZ Vidya is India's premier school education products and services organization. All their endeavours are driven by their passion, which is to 'Let the child blossom'. They are headquartered in Chennai, South India and believe in 'cross-fertilized' approach, wherein sharing and learning happens across different functions within and with the partners.
Their services encompass development of academic curricula, training initiatives and strategic engagements with school. Their journey began a decade ago, when computers and technology started to gain entry into schools in a big way. They started out in a small garage where children would come over to explore technology in a meaningful and fun way. Progressively, activities and learning material were designed. EZ Vidya began to approach schools in order to make Information and Communication Technology (ICT) education more meaningful. With a handful of partner schools, EZ Vidya began its foray into formal school education. Today, more than 300 schools partner with EZ Vidya, whereby more than 1,50,000 students derive the benefits of learning and using technology, the Chrysalis way.
Eventually, EZ Vidya also stepped into the domain of teacher professional development. EZ Vidya has trained more than 5,000 teachers, clocking more than 50,000 hours of training, focusing on bringing to our teachers the latest from education research and pedagogy.
by Alam Bains
“MEMINI”, founded by Norwegian music producer and activist Deeyah, is an online site for remembering the victims of honour killings. The UN conservatively estimates that 5,000 women and girls are killed each year globally by members of their own family in the name of "honour".
Deeyah feels that the perpetrators of these honour motivated crimes want all signs of the lives of these young women to be completely wiped out. Memini wishes to ensure that the stories of victims of honor killings are told, thus defying the intent of those who wanted to erase them. This documentation of stories has a deeper purpose – to bring to light the many women and girls who are victims of this brutality in order to tell the world – it is happening and it has to stop.
MEMINI is an ongoing project and continues to add content as it is gathered. It is an entirely volunteer driven initiative where wonderful individuals are helping by donating their time to help support this online place of remembrance.
iXiGO, launched in 2007, is a global travel search engine. It searches more than 100 travel sites to find the best flight, hotel deals. Its mission is to aggregate travel information and make it searchable and useful with passion of bringing a technology that brings speed, usability and transparency to the travel world. It is among the NASSCOM 100 IT Innovators 2007.
iXiGO is an infomediary, not an intermediary. That means it’s NOT an online travel agency. It just let you search directly across multiple airlines, hotels, buses, trains and online travel agencies in real-time so that you don't need to search a zillion travel websites. It thus aims to make your travel search easier for you, the same way Google does for information on websites.
iXiGO is a search of the traveler, by the traveler and for the traveler. Unlike travel agencies, there are no biases or commercially-motivated deals within their results. They provide objective, comprehensive and transparent information to assist us in making informed traveling. iXiGO's utility and ease of use have made it a top travel search engine almost entirely through word of mouth from satisfied users.
with inputs: Soubhik C.
Well sourced public data, from all around the world stored in one place. A project through which people can view documents that range from military, environment and economic issues. The project aims to bring collection of databases and documents, among other resources. Through this, it aims to bring transparency in the workings of governments, multinational non-governmental organizations and business enterprises, especially in developing countries.
The Ujima Project paves the way for development in developing countries through the concept of ‘reverse transparency’. The project states that although information on foreign aid, developmental contracts, weapon sales, lobbying among other activities; are easily available in the developed countries, they are hard to come by in developing countries. The Ujima projects steps in here by providing a centralized repository of all such information.
An endeavour by The Center for Public Integrity, an internationally renowned non-profit organization, Ujima project brings to the fore original, responsible journalism on issues of public concern.
