The document discusses challenges to quality education and proposes a platform called E-Ankuram to help address these challenges. Some key points: - Millions of children lack basic literacy/numeracy skills and many are denied education due to economic/social barriers. - E-Ankuram is a proposed free online platform utilizing volunteers to provide equitable access to quality education for all through online learning modules, one-on-one tutoring, and community engagement. - It aims to improve literacy, promote inclusion, and empower groups like women and vulnerable populations through educational opportunities.

1. CHALLENGES TO QUALITY EDUCATION
The COVID crisis in the past two years has undone decades of advancements and successes in the field of
education. Millions of students in the world lack basic literacy and numerical skills.
58 million children of Primary School age are still denied the right to education.
Rich can procure high-quality education for their children while the poor remain behind the scenes with no
engagement at all. In many of the developing countries like India, there are far too many people in villages
where there is a lack of quality teachers and no proper guidance to the future lookout in the field of education.

2. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
GOALS? ACHIEVABLE OR NOT?
EDUCATION: A PRIVELEGE OR RIGHT?

3. ONE PLATFORM MAKES MOST
OF THE GOALS ACHIEVABLE:
EDUCATION AS A BASIC
RIGHT!
• We aim to provide free and quality
education to every child irrespective of
their social, cultural, geographical and
economic background. We aim to reduce
illiteracy and incompetency through
quality and effective education through
the use of technology.
..Unleashing the power of
volunteers!

4. WHAT IS
E-
ANKURAM ?
A completely free, online platform built to provide
access to quality education equitably to all sections
of population.
Utilizes complete power of passionate individuals
who would volunteer to provide educational help
to learners and be trained for the same.
Designed to provide education in any medium
mutually agreed upon: text, audio or video.

5. A platformed empowered by
self-sustaining cycle of
learners, volunteers and
educators providing learning
help and educational
activities on a 24x7 basis.
Provides researched
educational modules for
basic skill training for the
21st century living and
beyond.
Empowerment opportunities
for women and vulnerable
groups.

6. TECHNOLOGIES REQUIRED TO CREATE E-
ANKURAM
IBM BLOCKCHAIN – Our website will run on information. The faster it’s
received and the more accurate it is, the better. Blockchain is ideal for
delivering that information on our platform because it provides
immediate, shared and completely transparent information stored.
This will help make our platform completely secure from unethical
practices that could lead to leakage of sensitive data in turn breaching
privacy of our community users.
IBM CLOUD - IBM cloud computing is a set of cloud computing
services offered by IBM. Our website also utilizes many other
functionalities of IBM CLOUD. This will enable us to build and deploy
our website very effectively.

7. TECHNOLOGIES REQUIRED TO CREATE E-
ANKURAM
IBM WATSON CHATBOT - IBM Watson Assistant is a service on
the IBM Cloud that will help us build and deploy virtual
assistants for proper feedback and reviews on volunteers and
modules. Chatbot will help in site navigation to facilitate smooth
user experience. Chatbot will also be used to answer some
frequently asked questions.
WATSON SPEECH TO TEXT API - The IBM Watson Speech to Text service
provides APIs that use IBM's speech-recognition capabilities to produce
transcripts of spoken audio and thus enable us to help differently abled
children especially those having hearing impairment in learning process.
For interactive modules, speech to text feature will be utilized to help in
reading exercises evaluation and to provide captions in video
presentations and classes.

8. TECHNOLOGIES REQUIRED TO CREATE E-
ANKURAM
WATSON TEXT TO SPEECH API - IBM Watson Text to Speech is an
API cloud service that will enable us to convert written text into
natural-sounding audio in a variety of languages and voices and
thus help blind children in learning process. This feature will also
enable the users to listen to the learning modules without the need
of looking at the screen the whole time. It will be used to create
interactive lessons for primary children.
WATSON MACHINE LEARNING - IBM Watson Machine Learning is a full-
service IBM Cloud offering that makes it easy for us to integrate predictive
capabilities with their applications into our website and thus making it
easier to find volunteers with specific skill sets and also to gauge the
module learning. Watson ML will be used to calculate average waiting time,
most active learners and volunteers, it will also predict the most active time
of our website. It will also recommend users to learn a particular module
and grow one’s learning path level.

9. TECHNOLOGIES REQUIRED TO CREATE E-
ANKURAM
IBM CLOUD DATABASE - IBM offers databases that deliver high
availability, enhanced security and scalable performance. This
includes auto provisioning, hosting, and 24x7 management with
automated high availability, backup and restore, version upgrades,
security and thus helping us manage our website with better ease.
All our data will be stored and will be available for 24x7 in the
working of our website all around the year.

10. E-ANKURAM
LEARNERS – Everyone on the platform would be engaged in
learning process in one way or the other. They can participate in
community discussions, engage with learning modules, and
learn in one-to-one setting.
VOLUNTEERS - Everyone in the world above 14 years of age can
create their account and participate in the volunteering process.
Volunteers are the main powerhouse of our platform facilitating
the learning-educating process.
EDUCATORS - The highest hallmark of quality is the tag of
Educator. Volunteers can transition to become an educator in the
skill of their choice after passing a skill assessment test.
Education degree holders in any area of study or those pursuing
study in any area could directly apply to become educators.

11. LEARNERS PROCESS: CONNECTING TO
VOLUNTEERS LIVE

12. ROUND THE CLOCK EDUCATION
OPPORTUNITIES- UNLEASHING THE POWER
OF VOLUNTEERS
• COVID pandemic has shut back the entire world. The educational processes were at a
big halt. Students and teachers alike were no more able to interact one-to-one as it
was possible in institutions. Our platform touches upon this very urgent need of the
entire student population- the need for volunteers on a 24x7 basis.
• Everyone in the world above 14 years of age can create their account and participate in
the volunteering process. The initial steps would require you to select three of the
topics in which you are most proficient. Based on participation in the community,
completing a set of training modules, and positive feedback earned from learners,
volunteers would be able to level up and unlock additional perks.
• The platform would allow learners to put up an open request for learning specific
topics or asking questions or doubts on a 24x7 basis. Volunteers and Educators would
be able to see the open requests and either of them could accept the request based on
their topic of expertise.

13. A BASIC LOOK OF VOLUNTEER’S WINDOW

14. POWER OF PERSONAL REQUESTS
To give full controls to learners
from whom they wish to learn
among volunteers and
educators
Personal requests can be sent
to a particular volunteer and
educators currently online or
can even be booked for future
time slot based on availability
Initially, the option will be
available to learners to send in
problems or query through text
or audio message. Future
advancements will also add the
facility of video class bookings.

15. PERSONAL REQUEST WINDOW FOR
LEARNERS

16. VERIFIED EDUCATIONAL UPSTREAMING:
EDUCATORS
Imparting quality
education is one
of our most
important
outcome
indicators .At
every stage of
the process, we
aim to ensure
proper
upstreaming with
effective
The highest hallmark
of quality is the tag of
Educator. Volunteers
can transition to
become an educator
in the skill of their
choice after passing a
skill assessment test.
Education degree
holders in any area of
study or those
pursuing study in any
area could directly
apply to become
educators.

17. HOW CAN LEARNER BECOME VOLUNTEERS?
We have imagined a continuous cycle of
inflow of learners and volunteers on our
platform.
A learner would come to learn a skill and
will be encouraged to participate as a
volunteer and teach those skills to other
learners.
After they accumulate a certain number
of activity points, they will be unlocking
pathways to become volunteers in
several other fields of their choice.

18. FREE PRIMARY AND
SECONDARY EDUCATION
• Our platform remains promising in
achieving free primary education for
everyone around the world irrespective of
education boards in the country or state.
• 101 million or 9% of children in grades 1
to 8 fell below minimum reading
proficiency levels in 2020.
• 12.6 million primary teachers were
needed to be recruited by 2020.

19. MODULAR TEACHING
METHODOLOGY: BASIC
PRIMARY EDUCATION SKILLS
There will be a well-researched collection of skill
modules for children in primary years of schooling.
The basic skills that we aim to impart using our
modules are reading, writing, speaking, numeracy,
and listening.
Skills would be put into use through community
participation, one-on-one sessions, regular
competitions that will help gauge the outcome of
the modular learning process.

20. WINDOW OF PRIMARY EDUCATION
LEARNERS

21. GROWTH PATH, ONE-ON-ONE, LIVE SKILL
CLASSES
There will be an interactive
growth path for children in
primary years that will aim to
engage them in friendly
activities related to key skills.
Children will have option to
engage in one-on-one
session with dedicated
volunteers especially signed
up for children in primary
years of schooling.
Educated women unemployed
will particularly be outreached
to participate in engaging with
children to ensure utmost
care.
Live skill classes for every skill
module will be conducted on
daily basis with a limited slot
of 10 in every batch to ensure
personal attention and
cumulative learning.

22. INTRODUCTION TO
GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP
• The second part of the modular teaching
style is our Awareness section, where we
aim to bring every learner, volunteer, and
educator alike to a basic understanding of
global skills that have become an urgent
need for our society.
• Well-researched materials prepared by
our educator community would be used to
harness global citizenship and human
rights values among the community
members.

23. KEY AWARENESS MODULES
Climate Science
Sustainable
development
Promotion of
inclusivity, and
acceptance of
diversity
Human rights Gender Equality

25. A
PLATFORM
TO ENGAGE
WOMEN
• According to the recent NSSO survey, 2017-18,
in urban areas unemployment among educated
women was twice their male counterparts. The
rate went up to a high of 19.8 per cent in
2017-18 from 10.3 per cent in 2011-12.
• For rural educated women, unemployment
stood at 17.3 per cent in 2017-18 increasing
sharply from 9.7 per cent in 2011-12.
• Our platform would engage educated women in
educational activities of primary children for
training them in basic key skills and also to
enhance the learning outcome through one-to-
one conversations in addition to modular
learning.

26. A PLATFORM TO ENGAGE WOMEN
23 million girls in India drop out of school in teenage years due to lack of sanitary infrastructure in schools,
especially in rural areas. Our platform, being completely virtual and free will provide a stress-free and safe
environment for girl children to carry on with their educational activities.
Educated unemployed women, especially housewives who are otherwise not allowed to go out of houses to carry
professional activities could use our platform to engage in educating primary children and youths.
Women can engage themselves in creating fun and interactive modules for young children to impart basic key
skills.
Girl children are endowed with option to send personal request to female educators and volunteers if they wish
to.

27. EMPOWERING YOUTHS FOR
HIGHER EDUCATION
OPPORTUNITIES:
As a part of outreach events, we would maintain a high influx of volunteers who
have been fortunate to receive a college education or even have graduated.
This will allow us to put our platform into use for higher educational
opportunities by empowering people.
People can learn more about funding opportunities, college education, degree
information and make educated choices for their proposed area of study.
Our volunteers would help them navigate a path to college education and
identify strong prospects for employment and nation-building.
This will help maintain a successful outflux of passionate individuals taking up
college education.

28. A PLATFORM FOR
EVERYONE: PROTECTING
RIGHTS
Protecting rights of minorities
Anti-discrimination measures
Accessibility for vulnerable groups
Ease of navigation for persons with disabilities

29. Online space is considered as most
accessible but equally dangerous
especially for children, ethnic
minorities, groups vulnerable to
discrimination and people with
disabilities.
1
Our platform will feature a series of
options for ease of navigation,
accessibility tools, text to speech for
people with limited eyesight,
highlighting and colour contrast
features for people with color
blindness.
2
To raise awareness about
inclusiveness and diversity among
populations, the core modules will be
required by everyone to be completed
in stipulated time
3

30. In case of any breach, users will
be provided with report buttons
where they can submit
discrimination reports or loss of
privacy for that suitable actions
will be guaranteed.
Every user will be provided with a
treasure of options they can use
to select while asking a question.
Learners can either choose to
engage with a volunteer or
educator by sending out personal
requests.
Girl children could choose to
engage with girl/women
volunteers or educators by
specifying in their open request.

31. REPORTIN
G AND
FEEDBACK
MECHANIS
M
• Any community member can flag a profile
of heinous users creating disruption on
platform: sending spam requests, breach
of community guidelines, trying to get
private information from users,
inappropriate behaviour including
harassment and discrimination toward
vulnerable groups.
• After every one-to-one session and group
discussions, learners will be prompted to
complete a feedback form based on which
quality of volunteers and educators will be
ensured.

32. ADDITIONAL ON-HAND EXPERIENCES:
Small skill-based
projects
Community
competitions
Friendly research
discussions
Informative
debates
Literary/ Creative
engagement

33. RECOGNITION, MOTIVATION,
ENCOURAGEMENT
• Volunteers can gain perks based on their activity in the community. They
will be able to gain experience points by doing the following:
• Upon receiving every positive feedback
• Community engagement
• Reviewing skill activities in the community based on volunteer levels.
• Every time on leveling up, volunteers can add one extra skill they would
like to impart to the learner community.

34. RECOGNITION, MOTIVATION,
ENCOURAGEMENT
Our platform would provide engagement opportunities around the world for students to put their learned
skills into practice after which they would be awarded the skill badge for a particular awareness module.
Every volunteer profile would display a list of three initial topic badges that they select to learn in the
community.
After volunteers transition to becomes educators, there will be different set of badges to display quality
hallmark gained through skill assessment test.
Regular community participation would also help community members earn different rewards in the form
of rank badge.

35. FURTHER POSSIBLE UPGRADATIONS
Online library or selected
pdfs to enhance learning
capability of community
members
Book donation drive by
partnering with local
schools to provide ample
books to school children.
Physical rewards in form
of cash or required
stationery items including
books to high performing
candidates on platform.
Payment to household
women engaged on our
platform to empower
them.