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Student Competition

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In cooperation with TATA Consultancy Service (TCS), one of the world's most successful IT companies, ITU offers all students at ITU an opportunity to participate in the ‘Spread the word’ competition which runs through 2008. The winning team will receive air-plane tickets to India, and an invitation to visit TCS and share with them, the result of the competition.

Want to help illiterate people learn to read in 40 hours?

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Yes. It’s actually true. The Indian IT Company TCS (www.tcs.com), which is one of the world's leading information technology companies has developed a Computer Based Functional Literacy programme (CBFL) which enables adult illiterates to gain basic reading skills (400-700 words) within 40 hours of training.

You can read more at www.tataliteracy.com.

Read in 40 hours – no way!

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TCS has succeeded in helping 180.000 people in India and Africa to become literate using the CBLF programme. Although this is a tremendous success, TCS is concerned that with the current rate of dissemination, the global literacy problem will not be solved within the near future. TCS and ITU have therefore agreed to ask the ITU students to help with the following things:

1. Develop a dissemination model, aiming at the fastest possible spread of CBLF; taking the problem of hardware/software supply and maintenance into account

2. Improve the existing software, by re-designing/developing CBLF to a generic form.

3. Improve interface design and usability4. Include user interaction into the teaching/learning model5. Create an educational game with the same purpose of teaching

adult illiterates to read6. Design and implement CBFL for mobile phones7. Suggest your own improvement and implement it

What can you contribute with?

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Who and how?

Who:Anyone with a valid ITU student ID card can participate in the competition.

How:ITU students can use any available project period during 2008 to take part in the competition; an elective module (by signing up for a project in the projects base), a specialisation module with embedded project (by signing up for the relevant course) or a thesis project. Groups should find supervisors, sign up for projects/courses, and take exams as usual. To participate in the competition you should additionally pre-register your project idea for the competition by sending a short (max. 10 lines) project description to Marie Gottlieb (mago@itu.dk) at latest 10 days after the beginning of the project period.

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When do I have to hand in my/our suggestion for the competition?

The deadline for handing in projects to the competition is 22-12-2008 at 14 pm.

Contact:For further information, you can contact Marie Gottlieb (mago@itu.dk, 72185220) in the International Office