Gyan Setu
Internet has been perhaps the most outstanding innovation in the field of communication in the history of mankind. There is a huge amount of information available on the Internet. Unfortunately, the rural population of India is not able to benefit from the available technology because of various limiting factors including illiteracy. GYANSETU system tries to bridges this gap by providing advanced yet simplified applications that can interact with the rural population, in a way comfortable to them so as to extract the required information from the internet. The possible services are e-governance, e-market, e-services (ticket booking), e-education etc. GYANSETU overcomes the limiting factors of rural masses including low/no literacy level and requires exposure only to local language, for getting connected to the internet.
• Multi lingual support • Audio Announcements • Less text, highly visual based • Driven by simplified numeric keypad • Internet access through remote device • Internet access through flash of an Easy Card • Power optimized rugged platform • Possibility of being powered through small solar & wind turbine sources
• Open source Ubuntu based platform • 12V 5W power consumption computing platform • Interacts with the user thru C-DOT developed GUI • Mediates with 3rd party servers seamlessly • No change required in 3rd party servers • Extracts the information from 3rd party servers in real-time over internet • Requested information presented to the user in a simplified GUI and with added audio announcements
• E- agriculture • E- education • E- services (Ticket booking, Banking etc ) • E- governance • Video call services • Information centre
• Application Usability testing Certification for rural public - certified by STQC IT Services, Bangalore. • ITU Telecom World Entrepreneurship Awards 2015, Budapest. • C-Change Award 2017.
Field trials in • 2 places in Karnataka • 5 places in Gujarat • 3 places in Andhra Pradesh • 2 places in Uttar Pradesh