Knowledge Portal & Services

C. Kathiresan

C-DAC, Hyderabad

Welcome to

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)

Hyderabad

About C-DAC• Centre for Development of Advanced Computing

• Scientific Society under Ministry of Communications & Information

Technology, Government of India

• Primarily an R&D Institution on advanced computing; Started in 1988

• India’s first ‘Super Computer’ – PARAM in 1991

• PARAM Yuva-II – latest supercomputer ranked 1st in India and 44th in

the world among the most power efficient computer systems

PARAM 8000 (1991)

PARAM Padma(2003)

PARAM Yuva II(2012)

C-DAC, Hyderabad

C-DAC in a nutshell

• 11 Locations in India

• 3200 members

• R&D on Electronics & Software

• Products & Services

• Training & Skill Development

C-DAC, Hyderabad

C-DAC’s core Research Areas• High Performance Computing, Grid & Cloud Computing

• Multilingual Computing & Heritage Computing

• Professional Electronics

• Software Technologies, including FOSS

• Cyber Security & Cyber Forensics

• Health Informatics

• Education & Training

• ICT for Development

ICT…Everywhere !

Facilitating Knowledge

Sharing effectively

C-DAC, Hyderabad

Global Trend in ICT• INFORMATION is wealth (1986-1995)

• KNOWLEDGE is power (1996-2005)

At present……

• KNOWLEDGE SHARING is wealth & power

• ICT facilitates Knowledge sharing effectively

Local Language content usage in the web

• India - 418 languages; 22 official languages

• Population over 1.2 billion

• 1080 million mobile users (TRAI Report, Dec 2015)

• 450 million internet users in India (IAMAI, Dec 2015)

• 64% of rural users search content in Local Languages

• 25% of urban users search content in Local Languages

India, being a Non-English speaking country, has more than 2.5 million websites in English,

an insignificant 30,000+ in various Indian languages

Source: Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI ) & Indian Market Research Bureau (IMRB)

India Development GatewayInitiative of Department of Electronics & Information Technology, Ministry of Communications & IT, GOI

Implemented by C-DAC, Hyderabad since 2006

InDG - providing e-knowledge and using ICT based applications for societal empowerment

Use the power of ICT to empower the poor and under-served community through provision of regional specific information, knowledge and services in select domains

Catalyzes the use of ICT for collaboration and knowledge sharing among development stakeholders

Vikaspedia Portal

• www.vikaspedia.in

• Creating collective knowledge repository through

collaborative content creation (crowd sourcing)

• Portal in 22 Indian languages and English

• Six domains (Agriculture, Health, Education,

Energy, Social Welfare and e-Governance)

Vikaspedia Portal

1 Assamese 13 Marathi2 Bangla 14 Nepali3 Bodo 15 Odia4 Dogri 16 Punjabi5 Gujarati 17 Sanskrit6 Hindi 18 Santali7 Kannada 19 Sindhi8 Kashmiri 20 Tamil9 Konkani 21 Telugu

10 Maithili 22 Urdu11 Malayalam12 Manipuri 23 English

Assamese

Bangla

Bodo

Dogri

Gujarati

Hindi

Kannada

Kashmiri

Konkani

Maithili

Malayalam

Manipuri

Marathi

Nepali

Odia

Punjabi

Sanskrit

Santali

Sindhi

Tamil

Telugu

Urdu

Public Opinion Poll

Information Services

• Information / Knowledge in local languages (Success stories, technologies, best practices,

Government schemes etc..)

• Multimedia products • e-Learning Courses• Value Added Services (e-Vyapar, Ask an Expert etc.)

• Mobile Apps related to key livelihood sectors

Vikaspedia Portal

• User of this portal can – Contribute new content / topic– Edit the existing content / topic– Comment on the available information– Participate in the discussions – Share the information in the social media

Collaborative Content Creation• ‘Crowdsourcing Model’ inviting community for active

contribution of content in their own language

• Any individual/volunteer can contribute content, edit /

comment on the existing content. Similar to Wikipedia, but, with more reliable and authentic content in local languages specific to the region

• Contributed content is validated by identified experts and moderated by State Nodal Agency in the respective states.

State Nodal Agencies (SNAs)• Managing the regional portal

• Coordinating the collaborative content creation

• Organises awareness programmes and trainings

• Support the volunteers on technical issues

CRD

IIIMXISS

IGSUERDS

CPRWSSS

WOTR

Uthaan

State Nodal Agencies

Outreach Activities➢ Orientation and training programmes for SNAs

➢ State level content mapping workshops

➢ State expert group meetings

➢ District level capacity building workshops

➢ Community level events with CSCs

➢ Vikaspedia Awareness programmes for development

stakeholders

➢ Coverage of events in print and mass media

Outreach

Vikaspedia currently hosts• Vikaspedia currently hosts

– 3200 topics – 4.5 lakhs pages – Multimedia content

• (audio (2330 min) & video (38,250 min (~ 10,000 min), flash (12.5 GB).

– Multilingual mobile apps - 56 – Volunteers – 14,680, 270 agencies– Online services

• Ask an Expert, e-vyapar, Online quiz for children, e-learning course on financial literacy, Recaller, VLE corner

Language Partner Institution Bodo Institute of Science and Technology, Guwahati University

Kashmiri Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Patiala

Konkani Goa UniversityMaithili Sarai Ranajan College, Samstipur, Bihar Manipuri North Eastern Regional Language Centre (CIIL and IIT

Guwahati )

Nepali Institute of Science and Technology, Guwahati University

Punjabi Central Institute of Indian Languages(CIIL), Patiala

Sanskrit Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, MHRD institution, New DelhiSantali Department of Tribal and Regional Languages, Ranchi

University, JharkhandSindhi National Council for promotion of Sindhi Language.

Urdu Maulana Azad National Urdu University Hyderabad

Partnerships for other languages

All users Mobiles Desktop

Portal utility - Day-wise User statistics – Vikaspedia

Day-wise user statistics – Device-wise – Vikaspedia

Portal access

Portal utility – Geographical distribution

State Visits %

Maharashtra 36.85Delhi 20.40Karnataka 6.84Tamil Nadu 5.02West Bengal 3.98UP 3.24AP 2.96Gujarat 2.90Telangana 2.78

Portal content utility

Domain-wise pageviews Language-wise pageviews

Portal utility - content

Content collaboration stats● Topics created – 38,806● No. of Edits – 1,34,966, Avg edit / topic - 3.7

Portal content – most viewed topics

Agri Education Health Social Welfare

Energy E-Gov

• Crop production

• Animal husbandry

• Best practices

• Policies• Fisheries

• Career guidance

• Children’s corner

• Policies, schemes

• Child rigjts• Teachers’

corner

• Women health

• Child health

• Diseases• Sanitation,

Hygiene• Nutrition

• Govt. schemes

• Women &child welfare

• Financial inclusion

• Minority welfare

• SC welfare

• Energy basics

• Environment

• Technologies

• Best practices

• Policies, schemes

• Online services

• Resources for VLEs

• Mobile gov• Digitial

India• RTI

Ask An Expert

Dept of Agriculture, Andhra Pradesh - adopted this service for AGRISNET

69

Buyer-Seller Platform (Vyapar)• Post items for Buy / Sell / Rent / Consultancy

• Extensive product category

• Multilingual support

• VLE - one of the main stakeholder

• SCAs (Sub-Admin) can monitor VLEs posting

• No financial transaction possible

C-DAC, Hyderabad

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Dynamic Market Information

• 13 secondary markets in 3 states

• 161 perishable commodities

• Wholesale & retail price

• 47109 users (Farmers, Traders, NGOs,

IFFCO-Kisan Sanchar, KVKs)

• SMS & e-Mail

• Govt of TN & TNAU

76SMS service provider: Evolgence, Hyderabad

Problem faced Innovation• Non reaching of timely

personalized health information directly to the pregnant and lactating mother and their family members leading to Maternal Mortality and Infant mortality

• Developed a tool to schedule and send the personalized health alerts as voice calls in regional language, directly to the mobile phones of the pregnant and lactating mother

Benefits • The beneficiaries receive vital information in the form of voice calls,

personalized to their pregnancy and childcare• Creating awareness to pregnant women and sensitizing the family

members, indirectly helps in reducing maternal mortality, infant mortality and morbidity

Mobile based Maternal Health Awareness (MOTHER)

Mobile Apps

Mobile based Expert Solution

Krishi Vigyan Kendra Locator

Mobile based Maternal Health Awareness

Common Service Centre Finder Student Hostel

Locator

Portal utility• Portal utility – since its launch in Feb ’14

➢ 12 million hits per month

➢ 13,000 registered members

➢ 3.43 lakh unique visitors

➢ 56 million pageviews

• Monthly e-newsletters released in 9 languages and

sent to a subscription base of about 75,000 users

Thank you

08/01/2016

+91- 9490 191 088 kathiresanc@cdac.in