Haselfre Foundation is a public charitable trust (under Indian Trust Act 1882) that focuses on improving quality of education for children. This includes ensuring class appropriateness, age appropriateness & life skills to children studying in Government Schools in India. The initiative outcome and evidence based and promises key milestones to be achieved in time to all stakeholders. The initiative is transparent and evidences of progress are available online and in social media. Nidara has already impacted the lives of over 1,000 children in rural India where connectivity and electricity are intermittent and soft infra for quality education is not available.

Nidara is a digital initiative that is delivered to children in Government schools all over India. It uniquely tracks every single child using an ID system that identifies the district, the school and the child. The implementation faces key challenges in terms of intermitted connectivity and power supply. Haselfre Foundation takes on the onus for all aspects of soft infra provisioning for quality education including power back up, furniture, computers and edge server that connect with the Nidara cloud over intermittent connections. We have frugal engineered the implementation both in terms of hardware and software to ensure that goals are achieved with maximum ROI for stakeholder resources. Nidara has already achieved 180+ hours of digital education per child in Government schools located in remote corners of India and achieved the promised outcomes (raise their educational levels as per milestones) with the above implementation. Children use a Nidara Desktop application. Each child login is a virtual session on the Edge server and each Edge server is configured to support ~50 children. The Edge server will not allow the children to use any computing resources other than the Nidara Desktop application to ensure safety. The Edge server will deliver the content needed for the scheduled – sequenced learning and capture data about the child’s session, learning and development. New and personalized sequences or learning (and assessments) are sent back to the Edge server from the cloud. This may include new chapters of content developed to target specific areas of child development. Our key stakeholders have recognized the transparent availability of evidences and have responded to the outcomes with renewed commitment ongoing partnership.

We are geared up to cover 4,000 children in the State of Meghalaya (North East of India), 4,000 children in the State of Tamil Nadu (South India), 2,000 children in the State of Maharashtra (West India) and are also working on implementation in other states including the mining districts of Karnataka. Nidara works with a large number of stakeholders in the implementation of the program, including:1. The State governments and the Education departments2. The District Education authorities, their block and cluster coordinators3. The School administration (Head masters)4. Parent Teacher Association and the local community at large5. The (Corporate Social Responsibility) donors6. Technology and other infrastructure – service providers7. Nidara school coordinators and support services for uninterrupted delivery of quality education8. Internal content, assessment, personalization and analytics components with required hardware and connectivity infrastructureA key aspect of our digital orientation is that all actions for child development and quality education are data (evidences) driven and not subjective. This streamlines deliverance and works towards the promise (child development goals) inclusively and with a constancy of purpose.

Nidara uses latest SMAC (Social, Mobile, Analytical and Cloud) technologies in its Digital Literacy Delivery Platform. The Analytic Dashboard inbuilt in the Nidara system is based on advanced Business Intelligence techniques. It continually monitors and measures the activity and progress of the child on defined Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). It also makes these results available in easily understandable formats. Thus, it Provides (1) Radar charts with 360 degree view of the child’s progress in all subjects and activities in Education, learning and development of the Executive Functions of the Brain every quarter. This indicates whether the development of the child is holistic. (2) Line charts of progress in individual subjects and how it is faring month on month. It indicates whether the progress is even or uneven. (3) Drill down functions for every subject that the child has been working on that week – on what the child has attempted, for how long and with what result. (4) Daily report on who has been present and how long they have worked. (5) Suggestions for intervention that are positive and help the child realize the goals. All of these are ‘Real Time’ and transparent; made available to the Funding organizations through a unique user name and password. With this they can observe the progress of each child, or class or school, whenever they wish.

Gamesa, Danfoss, ARS Energy (ARS Steels & Alloy International Pvt. Ltd.), Birla HiTech Carbon, Kamarajar Port Limited, Canara Bank, Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Limited, The State of Meghalaya, The State of Maharashtra, The District Education Administrations in Tiruvallur, Kanchipuram, Tiruvarur - State of Tamil Nadu