Showing posts with label sustainable institutions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sustainable institutions. Show all posts

Monday, May 7, 2012

EZ Vidya





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.

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

SRISTI






By : Kanika Kakkar

SRISTI (Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions), which means creation in Sanskrit, was born in 1993 as a result of the felt need for an institutional support to the activities of the Honey Bee Network. Honey Bee signifies a philosophy of discourses, which is fair, authentic and accountable. It advocates people to people learning. 

Sristi vision is to create a framework for creating an inventive ethic at grassroots level and forging links between excellence in formal and informal Science through Honey Bee Network.

SRISTI was set up to provide organizational, intellectual and logistics support to the Honey Bee Network. The primary objectives while setting up the organization were: systematically documenting, disseminating and developing grassroots green innovations, providing intellectual property rights protection to grassroots innovators, working on the in situ and ex situ conservation of local biodiversity, and providing venture support to grassroots innovators.

SRISTI manages the Honey Bee database of innovations, and supports the publication of the Network's newsletter in three languages, English, Hindi and Gujarati. 

Lately SRISTI has being focusing on more concerted ways of hitherto neglected domains like women's knowledge systems, value addition through a natural product laboratory, using ICT to establish knowledge network, connecting innovators, traditional knowledge holders with the centres of formal excellence, entrepreneurs etc and innovations in education. 

Know more about Honey Bee Network, at SRISTI
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