Sunday, March 31, 2013

Aakash Tablet

Aakash PC tablet is an low cost computing device, developed jointly by Datawind a british company and IIT  Rajasthan.

Background: 
National Mission on Education through Information and Communication technology ( i.e NME  ICT) Under 11th five year plan which aims to tap the potential of ICT in improving the knowledge module and to reduce the Digital divide to an extent, and Ministry of HRD which realised Aakash  as one such Solution to the problem of Learning in India.
Under this programme there is a provision for providing 50 % subsidy to colleges and universities for Procuring computing devices like Aakash as per their requirement and then the colleges and Universities in turn can issue them to Financially weaker students. 

Wall street journal termed this as the Worlds cheapest Tablet.
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I am just Copy pasting the Below content from an Article in Hindu about Aakash Tablet:

 Datawind, a Canadian company, won the tender to provide tablets at a cost of less than $35. Its first version failed miserably because of poor hardware. The newer version seemed more promising, but it looks like Datawind will default on its promise to deliver 1,00,000 units by March 31.
Even if the government somehow, however difficult it may seem, is able to get access to cheap tablets, they are not going to help achieve its aims. Can a laptop overcome the negative impact of a bad teacher or poor school? Can it make children smarter despite the lack of electricity, water, toilets or playgrounds? Can it overcome the limitations of stunted growth among the malnourished? Can Aakash increase productivity of the workforce to counterbalance the money invested in it?
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