IDEATHON 2020 - INCLUSIVE EDUCATION

Education and its impacts:

Why Is India still a developing country and what is stopping it from being a developed country?

This particular question strikes me every time when I read something about India’s education system .It will be surprising to see how income inequalities are created within the same group of educated people.

Let me illustrate this with the help of an example:

Let us take P be an individual who has had no primary or higher education. His human capital is zero and hence it bears no returns. Let Q be an individual who completed his MBA from S.P Jain College and let R be an individual who completed his MBA from IIM Ahmadabad. The average rate of return for an MBA student is 7.5% (hypothetical). Q gets a rate of return of 5% and R gets a rate of return of 10% due to the difference in the reputation and quality of the management school. Let the income of P, Q and R be 1.In a period of 10 years, P will be having the same income as he does not possess human capital. For the same time period Q will earn an income of (1+0.05)^10=1.63 and R will earn an income of (1+0.10)^10=2.59.

The uniqueness of India is its “Unity in Diversity”, which is visible in its religions, languages and cultures. But in Education is it true??

Absolutely No and is it a major issue? Yes

In India, Approximately Eight (8%) of the population 96 M are disabled.

Do we want 96 M of our population to be uneducated, unemployed, unproductive and left with no choice but to be a weight that rest of us country?

                                                             Or
Do we want them to be educated, employed, productive and contributing to the growth and wealth of our nation?

The ideas in this article are with an initiative called "Saamanjasya" that focuses on sustainability and a better society.

 Exclusive Education (At Present):

The present scenario of education system

Due to the inefficient methods in the exclusive education (see figure), we need to move towards inclusive education.

What is Inclusive Education?

Inclusive education is a process of increasing the participation of all students in schools, including those with disabilities. It is about restructuring the cultures, policies and practices in schools so that they respond to the diversity of students in their locality.

What are the benefits of inclusion?

·        Inclusive education can help to break the cycle of poverty and exclusion.

·    Inclusive education enables disabled children to stay with their families, communities and improve Quality of Education for all.

·        Inclusive education can help overcome discrimination.

EFA-Education for All

This is how inclusive education can change the society too.

At present, disabled people are following the below methods and technologies

Even though the above mentioned technologies and methods have advantages these are inefficientmethods.

So, to provide better education the following the technologies are suggested in the coming future.

 Assignment # 2 Implement and Deploy a Business Application

Business Problem:

                           At present I am facing a problem with the physical existence of business in selling desktops, notebooks and laptops,phones,cameras,MP3 players  and I am looking for 

· Buying/selling 24/7.

· More reach to customers, there is no theoretical geographic limitations.

· Low operational costs and better quality of services.

· No need of physical company set-ups.

· Easy to start and manage a business.

· Customers can easily select products from different providers without moving around physically.

· Faster buying/selling procedure, as well as easy to find products

· Provide Comparison Shopping

· Locate the Product Quicker

So, to solve this problem I choose E commerce (online website).   

                                       

Soft wares evaluated, finally selected, reason for selection:

The software I have evaluated in the process of searching applications to fulfill my requirements are: Zen cart, Opencart, Cubecart.

After evaluating the benefits and limits of the above mentioned applications, I have selected Opencart as the solution provider to my requirements.

The reasons for selecting Opencart are as follows

• Unlimited Categories
• Open Source
• Unlimited Products
• Free Documentation
• Unlimited Manufacturers
• Templatable
• Multi Currency
• Automatic Image Resize
• Multi Language
• Product Reviews
• Shipping Methods
• Product Ratings

On the other hand, other applications I have evaluated are quite complex and even doesn't exactly meet my requirements. So, I have chosen Opencart as the optimal solution to provide an application which meets all of my requirement

Configuration/Customization I have done

The customization/configuration I have done in my website are as follows

     · Added the following products

a.       Desktops

b.      Laptops and Notebooks

c.       Components

d.      Tablets

e.       Software

f.       Phones and PDAs

g.       Cameras

h.      MP3 players

· Added shipping and payment modes

· Created an option to compare the different products

· Given the full details of the products

· Added different brand products

      · Given an option to create an account to purchase the products

URL link to the actual working application

· Url for customer to order a product:

                 http://likenick.x10.mx/ocart/

· Url for admin to check and deliver the order:

               http://goo.gl/xxoIK

              Username: admin

              Password: pass

Matrix Service Desk

Matrix Solutions, A Software Company founded in 2004, providing services to its customers. Matrix Solutions Service Desk is an online portal for the employees of Matrix solutions which helps it’s users to register complaints regarding any technical and facilities services. We have a manual complaint registration desk till date and are facing difficulties in keeping track of all the complaints. Therefore, we wish to shift to the online system which will make the service desk more efficient. The requirements for our portal are specified below:

1)The portal must have a New User Registration for the first time users to register. Only the employees of Matrix Solutions should be able to register. So the employees should be able to register through their Employee Ids.

    2)There should be a Complaint Registration page. Only registered users are allowed to make a Complaint through Complaint Registration page. The user should be able to give the type of complaint and priority of the issue

      Priority:  The time of resolution will depend on the priority of the issue. 

      Complaint Number and Time of Complaint:  These fields should be generated automatically.

   3)Once the user has launched a complaint , a mail should be sent to the user on the registered email id as a confirmation for his complaint registration.

   4)To check the status of the complaint, the user should be provided with some reference number. Our service providers will make sure that the status is updated once the issue is resolved.

   5)As this will be  a new system, we wish to know the feedback of the employees.

      Feed Back Form:  The portal should also contain a feedback form which contains questions about the level of satisfaction of the user about the service provided, which helps us to know about the customer satisfaction and the service provided.

·     Also provide a User Manual for the employees, which will guide them about the procedure to launch a complaint.

·     Mention direct contact by phone and email for the customers for clarification and support.

Please contact us for any doubts regarding the specifications. Adhere to the deadline i.e 20th September 2012 to submit the Application.

SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE?

CONVERSATION WITH FRIEND ABOUT SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE

Last night I had conversation with my friend. she is working with TCS and doesn’t know about the computer architecture and I had explained to her.

Me:  hii, how are you??

Nikky: Fine, how’s the MBA life

Me: Good, it’s busy life

Nikky: ok.what about studies??

Me: good .hey do you know about computer architecture as your were working in TCS

Nikky: No, I don’t know anything

Me: Do you know about the terms application, server etc..,

Nikky: yup..

Me: Good..Basically, Computer Architecture are of  3 types

      Single-Tier Architecture

      Two-Tier Architecture

      Three-Tier Architecture

In Single-Tier Both the Data and application resides on the same machine whereas in Two-Tier the data is separated from application. In this type of Architecture CLIENT-SERVER and CLIENT MACHINES are present. The common data that is used by all is stored in a common machine called the SERVER and each user has a copy of application on their own machine , called CLIENT MACHINES.

                      

                                                                                                                                                                                   

Nikky:yeah..but in our office, I think we use Multi-Tier architecture.

Me: Great..I will Explain to you. Three-Tier consists of essentially three layers - client, business logic server and the central data server all connected through a WAN (Wide Area Network).I will give you an example: An ERP product-like SAP, that is used in large number of corporations is a perfect example.

                                         

 

And in Multi-Tier Web browser comes into play between the application server and the user. There is no need to install the software in each system. We can use it  through Web browser.

                                                   

                           

Nikky: How can you protect these things from hackers??

Me: Firewall servers protects from unauthorised computers. The firewall servers stand as gatekeepers between the public internet and company’s LAN.

Nikky: Oh great,, thank you catch you later bye good night

Me: Good night..