Department of Electronics & Information Technology

Government of India

“Knowledge Management through

crowdsourcing - Vikaspedia as a Platform”

Harnessing the Strength of Collective Wisdom for Development

C-DAC, Hyderabad

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 at Pune in 1988

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

About C-DAC

PARAM 8000 - (1991) PARAM Padma - (2003) PARAM Yuva - (2008) PARAM Yuva – II - (2013)

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11 Locations in India

3200 members

R&D on Electronics & Software

Products & Services

Training & Skill Development

C-DAC in a Nut Shell

C-DAC Hyderabad

Started in the year 1999

Located at Hardware Park near Shamshabad Airport (own premises) and Ameerpet (leased premises)

Own Premises – 40,000 Sq.ft

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C-DAC’s core Research Areas

High Performance Computing & Grid Computing

Multilingual Computing

Professional Electronics & Ubiquitous Computing*

Software Technologies, including FOSS*

Cyber Security* & Cyber Forensics

Health Informatics

Education & Training*

ICT for Development (InDG)

Vikaspedia …

• National level Initiative implemented by C-DAC,

Hyderabad

• Unique Platform for knowledge sharing

• Core objective is to leverage ICT to provide relevant

information products and services to communities in

local languages

• Act as a catalyst for collaboration and knowledge sharing

among development stakeholders

‘Facilitate Rural Empowerment’

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• Vikaspedia is a knowledge portal targeting specific country needs in the domain of social development.

• At present, 6 domains (Agriculture, Health, Education, Energy, Social Welfare and e-Governance).

• This multilingual portal is developed as a single-window access to information, products and services, with specific objective of reaching the ‘un-reached’ communities of India, especially poor.

• This portal is to be made to be in all Indian official languages

• A crowd-sourcing platform which allows registered and authenticated users to contribute content in regional languages for the benefit of a wider audience

Vikaspedia key features:

Partnership

• Content Development & Outreach Activities

• Academic institutions

• Research Organisations

• Non-Governmental Organisations

• Private- CSR initiatives

• International organisations

Vikaspedia portal follows a ‘Collaborative Content Creation

Model’,

•It facilitates communities to actively contribute content in their

own languages, specific to their region use

•Any individual/volunteer/expert can contribute new content

related to any of the six specified domains

•Edit/comment/update the existing content

•The contributed content is validated by identified experts in the

respective languages

•All the contributors (volunteers) are suitability acknowledged in

the portal

Vikaspedia portal, a Collaborative platform for

localized Content Creation

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User of this portal can be

• Contribute new content in interested domains/ Topics

• Edit the existing content

• Comment / Update the available information

• Participate in the discussion forums/ polls

• Share the information with others through social media

networks

Vikaspedia portal, a Collaborative platform for

localized Content Creation

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• Discussion forums

• Opinion Polls

• Rate a page [star rating]

• Monthly e-Newsletter

• Suggestions / Comments

• Subscribe to RSS feed

• Search facility

• Feedback

• Share content via email / social media

Interactive features of Vikaspedia:

For video tutorial on the above, Please click here : http://vikaspedia.in/help/

• Any one can create a

thread in forum and

discuss interested topics

• Any one can reply to a

discussion topic

• Moderated threads can

be displayed on the portal

Discussion forum :

For video tutorial on the above,

Please click here : http://vikaspedia.in/help/

• Opinion poll is to collect

user choice / voting on a

particular topic or

statement

• Any one can participate

in opinion polls

Opinion polls :

For video tutorial on the above,

Please click here : http://vikaspedia.in/help/

• Any user can rate the

page with a star rating

• End of an each and

every page user find

rating column - As

shown in the picture

5 - stars to a page is

represents excellent

Page Rating :

For video tutorial on the above,

Please click here : http://vikaspedia.in/help/

Online Services from Vikaspedia :

Access online services through : http://vikaspedia.in/online-services

Ask An Expert

Dept of Agriculture,

Andhra Pradesh -

adopted this

service for

AGRISNET

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Market Information through mobiles

13 secondary markets in 3 states

161 perishable commodities

Wholesale & retail price

47109 users (Farmers, Traders, NGOs,

IFFCO-Kisan Sanchar, KVKs)

SMS & e-Mail

Horticulture Dept, Govt of Tamil Nadu

- to scale up in entire state

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6 hourly forecast

Daily Forecast

86% accuracy (validated by IMD, Pune)

90% users are from rural areas

Farmers, KVK scientists and Agri Extn Officers

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

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)

How it works?

How it works?...

Calls sent 2 times a day

10.30 am and 7 pm

Health & Family Welfare Dept

Gov of Andhra Pradesh

‘Voice based alerts in Telugu

16.5 lakhs Pre-natal beneficiaries

23 districts

MCTS data

Online course on Financial Literacy

Content developed by - National Institute of Security Markets

(NISM), Mumbai (a SEBI institution) developed the content

Translated in 9 Indian languages (Hindi, Assamese, Kannada,

Bangla, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam)

Hosted for public use through multilingual e-Learning

platforms -e-Sikshak and Moodle

Plan to bring out publications in association with partners for

wider reach

Learning Resources :

Access online services through : http://vikaspedia.in/online-services

•Anonymous user

•Registered Member

•Content Contributor

•Content Reviewer

User roles in the portal:

There are various user roles in the portal to enable

volunteer to contribute new information, images and any

other data in the area of their expertise. The portal supports

the following four distinct types of users:

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Mobile Applications :

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Vikaspedia Android Applications

Beti Bachao Beti Padhao This app contains details about the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao programme that seeks to create awareness on celebrating

the Girl Child and enabling her education.

Vikaspedia Android Applications

Online General knowledge Quiz

Vikaspedia Android Applications

Five Keys To Safe Food This application provides simple tips in the form of five keys to keep our food safe and clean in english.

Vikaspedia Android Applications

Eco Tips This mobile application provides simple tips in the form of do's and dont's on various topics such as vehicular

pollution, water pollution, sound pollution and energy conservation in english .

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A Precision Agriculture pilot initiative from

Government of Andhra Pradesh for sending

personalised Agro-advisories to Groundnut farmers

How the developed model works?

WSN nodes will sense the micro-climate data at crop canopy level on real-time basis

Transfer to the data periodically to the remote server, through a field ‘Gateway’ having internet

access (SIM card)

At server level ‘Decision Support Models’ are executed based on the data received from the field

and alerts are generated by the system

Based on the alerts generated by the system, experts will send personalised crop advisories to

the farmers in regional languages.

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Communication & Power Unit

Open field deployable WSN model developed as

outcome of this research

Sensor Unit

WSN Unit

Sensors deployed

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Sensor unit

Temp & RH

Gypsum Block Soil Temp Probe

Leaf Wetness

Sensor

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Advisories sent to farmers by MAO based on

disease alert generated by WSN

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WSN Alerts generated for Dharmapuram

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Advisories sent by Agri Officer to farmers

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Scheduled Advisories sent to farmers

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WSN installations at Kothapeta and Dharmapuram villages

on 4th and 5th January 2015

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Interaction with farmers

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Field review & Training to Agri staff

Why should I Participate ?

•National Level Initiative that targets specific country needs for

achieving an Inclusive Social Development

•Opportunity to work for people of India especially

underserved for their development through providing

knowledge and services

•Due acknowledgement and appreciation to all CCs will be

given in the portal/publications/events

•Incentives in terms of attractive gifts/free access to relevant

trainings/events of C-DAC

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What you can do:

Join hands to take this

Voluntary Knowledge Movement

to great heights !

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