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Education

Library Project

We are working to create the “Brahmapur Children’s Library” concept in collaboration with Jagannath Jogadham organization at Berhampur, Odisha. You can help us procure books for this non-profit, public library. http://blog.prathambooks.org/ http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/notalists/ncb http://www.reading.org/resources/booklists/childrenschoices.aspx http://www.scholastic.com/resources/collection/childrens-book-award-winners-for-2012/ A brief site visit report on a library we are trying to build up Read more…

By Priyadarsan Patra, 11 years02/18/2013 ago

Featured

Greening the Lights

Illumination efficiency of fuel-based lights (such as kerosene lanterns) has been observed to be >100 times lower than the solid-state WLED lights. It’s estimated that fuel-based lighting is responsible for annual energy consumption of 77 billion liters of fuel worldwide at a cost of $38 billion/year or $77 per household. Read more…

By Priyadarsan Patra, 11 years02/16/2013 ago

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Khan Academy Without Internet (KAWI)

Khan Academy is a wonderful internet resource for students in the USA. But how do we bring it to the teeming millions of the world that do not have access to the Internet? This is the genesis of an experiment that we have started in over a handful places in Read more…

By Priyadarsan Patra, 11 years02/16/2013 ago

CFM

Computing for the Masses

India is the second fastest growing major economy in the world, with a GDP growth rate of 8.1% at the end of the first quarter of 2005–2006. The primary contributor of the growth has been the rapidly growing software sector: revenues from the information technology industry reached a turnover of Read more…

By Priyadarsan Patra, 11 years02/16/2013 ago

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