GetVidya
Company type | Economic Development |
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Founded | Mumbai, India (April 2007 ) |
Headquarters | , |
Area served | India |
Key people | Vishal Singh and Ankur Goenka |
Website | https://www.getvidya.in |
GetVidya was a registered (
GetVidya was an organisation committed to spread education amongst underprivileged and special children of different statures of the society in order to bring them on a common platform with the rest of the society.
History
GetVidya started with an aim to promote free education to engineering entrance aspirants preparing for
GetVidya also developed another software called "Autisto"[2] that asks questions and provides answers using only images, animations and sound. This software is targeted to help teach kids with Autism. Autistic kids have significant problems in reading and hence they need special means of teaching through images and sound. GetVidya distributes Autisto free of cost to Autism centers and schools catering to children with special needs. As the software is open source the teacher has immense flexibility to put any image or sound she wishes. This makes learning very empathetic. The teachers can put images related to the kid's parents, siblings and home which helps the kid to relate to these teaching fairly easily. GetVidya has given this software to about 17 autism centers in Bangalore, Chandigarh, Delhi, Mumbai, Pune and Hyderabad. It also does extensive training of the teachers of the centers to ensure they are enabled to fully use the software.[3]
Products
Kiddo, Autisto,[4] Screamer[5]
Team
GetVidya was essentially a student run enterprise turned into an organisation focused to help the young kids. The team consisted of young professionals and primarily students from IITs.[4] GetVidya had about 50,000 registered members and had recorded about 1 million page views in September 2011.[2]
Recognition
GetVidya was praised by many national newspapers
References
- ^ http://itnewswave.com/their-package-interchange-young-being-deccan-version/ [dead link]
- ^ a b c d Zavery, Tasneem (3 October 2011). "On the open-source highway to spread literacy". The New Indian Express. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
- ^ "Our Affiliates | Spreading Education". Getvidya.in. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
- ^ a b "Cities". Deccan Chronicle. 30 June 2008. Archived from the original on 2 March 2012. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
- ^ "For children who cannot speak, a communication tool". Indian Express. 16 March 2012. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
- ^ "Media Archive | Spreading Education". Getvidya.in. Retrieved 24 May 2013.