1. 2020: Education for the
under-privileged
Empowering kids in slums to educate
themselves

2. Motivation
• Education is empowerment
• The more people get educated, the less they can be
manipulated
• Social responsibility
• Better quality of life for greater society, reduce crime
• Titillate the young mind at the grass root level, create the
hunger to reach bigger heights

3. Research
• “Hole in the wall” experiment
• Studies from around the world show young children can
teach themselves fairly complex ideas without any guidance
using online resources
• Classroom model is obsolete
• Dinosaur from the “Colonial” times which needs to die now
• Children have the unique gift to teach themselves through
curiosity (adults lack this)
• Stress on English and Mathematics as core subjects, rest
can be derived

4. Resources
• We stand at an unique juncture
• Open source is the new mantra
• Free resources available which are getting better in
quality day by day
• Wikipedia, Khan academy, YouTube, Wolfram Alpha
• Our job is to provide access to young minds

5. Bringing everything
together
• Initial exposure to 20-30 kids per location
• Installation of “SimpuComp”
• Sharing of electric bill and internet connection by the
slum community
• Enough offline resources
• Accessible to CHILDREN ONLY for 24 hours
• Should be guarded by a responsible local guardian,
preferably the 80yr old “grandpa” who believes in our goals
• Electricity and internet connection

6. Finances
• Crowd-sourcing for the initial stages
• Enough pool collected to provide 20 SimpuComps
• Indiegogo project to be floated after initial success to
raise further financing
• NGO incorporation after the first substantial cheque

7. Our commitment
• Initial briefing for the children and parents
• Setting up our installation
• Who pays the bills? Electricity, Internet
• Providing direct mobile contact
• Visiting once a month to address issues
• Format and re-install if they manage to break the system
• Open source is the mantra
• Engage one educator in each location for regular
clarification – can be a high school student as well
• Should be responsible and aligned with our goals

8. Initial goals
• Kolkata and Mumbai
• 10 locations in each city – spread as far apart as possible
• Believe me, these machines will be like child magnets,
drawing them from a 100 sq. km area
• 20 rudimentary computers
• 400 students
• Only English tuitions

9. 5 year plan
• All Tier-I cities – Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata,
Bangalore, Hyderabad, Bhopal, Indore, Lucknow,
Ahmedabad, Jaipur
• 100 locations per city
• Minimum 50,000 BPL students influenced per city
• All subjects

10. Take away
• Empowerment of society
• Investment in human capital
• Some students will succeed in their small ventures
• Some of the students will go further ahead and create
employment
• Each student will titillate others, creating a domino effect
• They will be indebted to us for getting this opportunity
• Personal Motive:
• Being a part of a powerful NGO that shapes the future
• Funded by CSR grants from heavy-weight corporates