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Motorola Inc. announced a new project on Thursday an online education project in India that will link children in remote areas with teachers in other schools.
Using the company`s Canopy wireless broadband technology, Motorola will connect teachers and students by providing real-time video and audio feeds to a cluster of recipient schools from a classroom in a nodal school, the company said in a statement Thursday.
An always-on, high-speed broadband technology, Canopy is positioned by Motorola as a technology that is suited for providing IP (Internet Protocol) connectivity and providing services such as data, voice and video to locations where existing broadband infrastructure is not available or affordable.
For the online education project in India, the Schaumburg, Illinois, company will provide the broadband wireless link as well as the computers and software required for connecting the nodal and recipient schools. The curriculum and content will be provided by the nodal school, and made compatible with the Internet through a nongovernmental organization (NGO) partner.
Motorola did not indicate how many schools it plans to cover under the program.
We have started the first pilot yesterday in Delhi, and we are planning three more pilots over the next one year, said Amit Chaudhery, a spokesman for Motorola India in Delhi. This is a long haul project, and we don`t know as yet where it will take us, he said.
Motorola is partnering with Indian NGO Ritinjali for the first pilot in Delhi. Ritinjali has worked with marginalised communities in areas in and around Delhi, as well as in Gujarat, Uttranchal, Tripura and Meghalaya states of the country.
Motorola`s chairman and chief executive officer, Edward Zander, who is on a visit to India, demonstrated the technology to India`s President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, at his official residence, Rashtrapati Bhavan in Delhi.
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