diff --git a/content/projects.md b/content/projects.md index d7ed093..acb5cc6 100644 --- a/content/projects.md +++ b/content/projects.md @@ -7,14 +7,29 @@ menu: main weight: 30 --- -As part of our mission, we are actively working on projects focused on rural development, starting with bridging the digital divide in education. These initiatives also aim to enhance local livelihoods and promote long-term community growth. Our ongoing projects are described below. +As part of our mission, we are actively working on projects aligned with the Sustainable Development +Goals ([SDGs](https://sdgs.un.org/goals)). Our initial efforts focus on SDG #4: Quality Education, particularly in the context +of rural development. We begin by addressing the digital divide in education, ensuring better access +to learning opportunities. These initiatives also aim to strengthen local livelihoods and support +long-term community growth. Our ongoing projects are described below. -**Solar lighting for rural classrooms** +**Low-bandwidth Educational Access Platform – [LEAP](https://github.com/t4eq/leap)** -This project offers a portable, easy-to-assemble lighting solution for rural classrooms where electricity is limited or unreliable. +Through their Eureka Village Centers, [AID India](https://aidindia.in/) provides accessible education operating in 647 villages of +Tamil Nadu. AID India relies on online educational content to ensure consistent, high quality education to +these villages. However, many of these villages either do not have any internet connectivity or have very +low-bandwidth connections, which makes the distribution of the content problematic for them, as they +currently rely on video streaming during the classes to multiple devices in the classroom. This situation +results in a poor experience for the kids attending the classes. They get impatient when a video does not +load fast enough, and many eventually give up. -**Video delivery system for remote classrooms** +LEAP offers a solution that performs the video downloads ahead of time and only once for each video. +During lectures, the LEAP node (a small single-board computer) serves the contents to the classroom, +which does not require internet connectivity anymore. The system is designed to automatically fetch +the content for each week ahead of time, and is centrally managed by AID India. -This project offers a solution to the challenge of accessing educational content in low-bandwidth rural areas, where slow internet disrupts teaching and reduces student engagement. +**Solar lighting for rural classrooms** + +This project offers a portable, easy-to-assemble lighting solution for rural classrooms where electricity is limited or unreliable. -Please feel free to reach out for more information about the projects. \ No newline at end of file +Please feel free to reach out for more information about the projects.