IIITH explores AI-driven Education Data Models for Schools
A IIITH Raj Reddy Center for Technology and Society (RCTS) curated Roundtable on ‘Common Education Data Models for Schools’ brought together key stakeholders in the largely unwieldy education sector. They were tasked with the quantitative categorization of problems with the end view of building AI/emerging technologies-based solutions to specific issues. ‘If you judge a fish […]
Deliberations On Last Mile Connectivity For Healthcare
A roundtable meeting on problems that plague critical care centres especially in rural areas saw experts from various fields coming together to brainstorm on possible solutions. Here’s a short summary. In late April this year, the Compassionate Pandemic Response (CPR) Group – a voluntary group comprising doctors and healthcare entrepreneurs – and the Raj Reddy […]
Rumble-strips in the Last Mile. NGOs leveraging tech for rural transformation
AI-driven initiatives may soon be overhauling the collective social initiatives in Rural India. A roundtable with Hysea CSR group and CSR leaders, academia and NGOs explored challenges and possibilities for new tech to catalyze rural transformation in key sectors. A roundtable organized by the Raj Reddy Centre for Technology and Society (RCTS) on 23 February 2022, […]
Raj Reddy Center: Where Technology, Innovation And Impact Converge
A thought-provoking conclave of great minds drawing from the government, industry, academia, non-profit sector and many others fittingly marked the inaugural Conference on Science and Technology at the formal unveiling of the Raj Reddy Center for Technology and Society. For those who missed it, here’s a brief roundup of what transpired. Applied research has been […]
IIITH To Develop Early Oral Cancer Screening Tool
The automated solution, arising out of a collaborative effort with Grace Cancer Foundation and BioCon Foundation, requires just a smart phone. It aims to flag abnormal oral lesions before they progress into advanced stages of cancer. A blue-coloured bus trundles to a stop at Pangra village in Nizamabad district and sets up a mobile camp. […]
AI to catalyze technology-driven social change in rural India
IIITH’s Raj Reddy Center for Technology and Society (RCTS) is leading the way toward a tech-savvy rural India. A think-tank is going glocal, percolating the essence of emerging technologies in public health and grassroot education, to solve societal problems at the base of the socio-economic pyramid. Low income rural communities across India face area-specific challenges […]
Mapping An Industry-Academia Collab Via Tech Clusters
A brainstorming session with various industry heads was held at IIITH recently on challenges that exist in industry-academia partnerships, and the scope of technology clusters in dealing with them. Here’s a brief summary. Not too long ago, universities worked on their own churning out research and academic papers that oftentimes had little relevance to the […]
Intelligent Technology to Help India Leapfrog that Last Mile in Rural Healthcare
There’s good news in the pipeline for India’s rural healthcare system. A roundtable on ‘Technology to address the last mile in Healthcare’, hosted by IIITH’s Raj Reddy Centre for Technology & Society, grappled with challenges in the rural Medicare system and emerged with innovative technology-based solutions. The Great pandemic of 2020 turned the world on […]
Thought Leaders Brainstorm On Bringing Rural Students Back To School
A roundtable meeting on ‘AI & Emerging Tech for Grassroots school education post-pandemic’ was recently organised by International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH) to uncover and deliberate on challenges faced by children in rural government schools. When the ICMR chief Dr. Balram Bhargava recently suggested the reopening of primary schools first followed by secondary […]