Distribution of Aakash tablets among NIELIT students.
Commissioner Secretary, IT Department distributes Aakash Tablets at NIELIT Srinagar.
NIELIT as one of the select technical Institutes across the country, has received over 200 Aakash tablets from IIT Bombay under project Aakash.
These tablet’s will be tested for effectiveness as a teaching aid in a class room environment and also as a potential R&D device for promoting application development in FOSS (Free Open Source Software).
In order to inculcate and promote application development on Android
platform, NIELIT held a seminar where in students presented various project ideas targeting Android based applications on Aakash tablet. The application ideas presented by NIELIT students ranged from developing location based warning systems to e-Learning applications for students and faculty.
Sh. Bipul Pathak (IAS), Commissioner/Secretary to Govt., IT Department, Govt. of J&K attended the function as a chief guest. He distributed 93 Aakash tablets among the participating students of MCA and B-level course of NIELIT. He highly appreciated the role of NIELIT to bring in the state-of-the-art technology to promote quality education and training. On the occasion, he encouraged students to develop world class products particularly on Android platform and promised all help from the Department of IT, to the students in doing so. He also announced to give laptops to the winner of the best application developer on Android, which would be reviewed by a peer expert committee. Sh. A.H.Moon, Director NIELIT spoke about the experience of “hole in the wall experiment” which proved that technology can be learnt even in an unsupervised environment given the right kind of conditions. Sh. Muneer Ahmad Dar, Scientist-B & project Aakash coordinator, coordinated the presentations. The function was well attended by staff and students of NIELIT.
Commissioner Secretary, IT Department distributes Aakash Tablets at NIELIT Srinagar.
NIELIT as one of the select technical Institutes across the country, has received over 200 Aakash tablets from IIT Bombay under project Aakash.
These tablet’s will be tested for effectiveness as a teaching aid in a class room environment and also as a potential R&D device for promoting application development in FOSS (Free Open Source Software).
In order to inculcate and promote application development on Android
platform, NIELIT held a seminar where in students presented various project ideas targeting Android based applications on Aakash tablet. The application ideas presented by NIELIT students ranged from developing location based warning systems to e-Learning applications for students and faculty.
Sh. Bipul Pathak (IAS), Commissioner/Secretary to Govt., IT Department, Govt. of J&K attended the function as a chief guest. He distributed 93 Aakash tablets among the participating students of MCA and B-level course of NIELIT. He highly appreciated the role of NIELIT to bring in the state-of-the-art technology to promote quality education and training. On the occasion, he encouraged students to develop world class products particularly on Android platform and promised all help from the Department of IT, to the students in doing so. He also announced to give laptops to the winner of the best application developer on Android, which would be reviewed by a peer expert committee. Sh. A.H.Moon, Director NIELIT spoke about the experience of “hole in the wall experiment” which proved that technology can be learnt even in an unsupervised environment given the right kind of conditions. Sh. Muneer Ahmad Dar, Scientist-B & project Aakash coordinator, coordinated the presentations. The function was well attended by staff and students of NIELIT.
