 I will also take this opportunity to briefly mention NPTEL although I do not see NPTEL coordinators here. Of course it is not required because everybody knows about NPTEL but briefly I think I will explain its importance with a small story. There was a lot of publicity for when Stanford came and said that Stanford Engineering for everyone or something like that. They released some 13 courses and everybody was talking about it and there was a group that said, this I am talking about something that happened in 2008 or something like that 2007-2008 time frame and this group said how come so many people are talking about Stanford courses. Is this the only program that is offering such a set of courses? They did a survey and found the first one I think it was Berkeley, second one was I think Yale or MIT's OCW. These two, so let me say second was Yale, third was MIT's OCW and then they said hey what is this thing called NPTEL? That was the fourth. At the time NPTEL had not even uploaded all its 120 video courses, I am talking about the first phase. There were about 120 video courses, 120 web courses, out of the 120 only 50 had been uploaded. Still this was ranked fourth at that time and then the Stanford thing came fifth. So they said it is just that it shows that we don't publicize and people don't know enough about our program. But the NPTEL program has come a long way now. I think there are close to 1000 courses, each course having about 40 lectures and it is a fantastic effort and I thought that for completeness sake I will mention this here. I already showed the NPTEL website to you, there is an NPTEL stall here I would like you to go and visit that. So that brings me to the last of the projects, Spokane Tutorials 1203. I think we are not too far away from the time. So I will take that 5 minutes for talking about Spokane Tutorial also. So we actually started Spokane Tutorial as a documentation project. I told you that open source software that is what we started with. We said that one way to popularize open source software is to create documentation and a convenient way is to ask an expert to run through a session explaining, giving a running commentary of whatever he or she does, record the whole thing and release it as a video. That's how it started. It's a whole session so people will know what all you have done. So they will know otherwise you write a documentation it takes a lot of effort to do that. So many screenshots have to be created, inserted in the PDF file, takes a lot of time whereas this is a lot easier way to do it, the software automatically creates the video and gives it. Then we said in most colleges we found that there are too many people who actually want to learn and the experts are very few. So we said how do we make use of these beginners? So we said that let a beginner certifies that the video that we create is actually something that can be accessed by some other beginner. So for that we wrote a script for every tutorial we write a script, pause it through a novice check and novice has to certify that it is indeed working. So only then we accept it for recording, we record it and so on. Because of this self-learning nature it is we are able to organize workshops even without teachers, without experts the workshops are happening in about 5000 colleges in the country. 5000 colleges have signed up with us. I know that in 1000 of them the workshops are actually happening, they are active centers and we have trained until now about 8 lakh students. We will probably train about 7-8 lakh students in this year alone. Training means it is a 2 hour workshop, we call it self, spark and tutorial based education and learning through free fast study workshops. So in that workshop the students learn how to learn from the spark and tutorial and then they download and take it. By the way all the content created by the ministry, by the mission are created and released under CCBYSA that is Creative Commons, Attribution, ShareAlike. That means anybody can use it free of cost, only thing is they have to say that they took it from here and in case they modify it, they have to release the modified content also under the same license. Subject to that you can do anything, people can even sell it, we can make money out of that and so on and so forth. Previously we used to have something called NC Non-Commercial that the ministry removed saying that if that is going to help people, lot more people using it, let it be. So it be and then so be it and then that is how it started. So now it is released under CCBYSA, it is an amazing thing. For a long time it was felt that India has not contributed much to open source software but through our project we are doing it. The other important thing about Spoken Tutorial is we dubbed the Spoken part into all Indian languages. So you can see that these are some of the topics on which Spoken Tutorials are available. There are about 30, 35 of them and these are all dubbed into all Indian languages. There are about 650 in English and then you have in more than I think about 15 languages we have 100 plus tutorials already dubbed. In some languages like Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Bengali, Gujarati and so on we have close to 400 or close to 500 tutorials already dubbed. In fact I would say that ours is probably the largest collection of instructional material in all Indian languages guaranteeing the same quality because remember it is created for self-learning. We dubbed only the Spoken part not the video and that allows people to still aspire for employment in IT companies like TCS, Infosys and so on because they use normal computers, normal keyboard and so on. And I of course also believe that just because somebody is not fluent in English it is not that they are not smart. I did all my schooling in Tamil medium when I went to IIT Madras to do my BTAG I had a hell of a time. I can assure you that how the 16 year old guys treat somebody who does not speak proper English. And of course I had an opportunity to come up to their level but unfortunately this may not happen to many of our brethren. So even if we cannot do much about other things at least from employment point of view can we create this opportunity and one of the things that is not said in you know that is implicit in all our projects is the reason why our projects are successful is that all the PIs of our mission projects are very passionate. As President Muzundar said you know why I mean why do people do this? Because we are all mad, we are all mad people okay another way to say that is we are passionate and we are able to transfer that passion to our managers, senior managers who in turn transfer it to their managers, junior managers and staff members and that is and given full freedom that is the only reason why this has succeeded. So to come back I was very passionate about the languages and by the way here you see that policy on adoption of open source software for Government of India. In fact the Government of India has made open source software as a policy that it should be used wherever possible and in fact they go on to the extent of saying that if somebody wants to use commercial software they have to first prove that open source software will not do the work which is going to make it very difficult and I believe that the number of large numbers of people whom we train here are going to be very useful for this national effort of ours. So I would want the Spokane tutorial team members to just stand up. So we have two big groups one is the creation group the other is the events or training group. We have Nancy who is the senior manager for the creations so I told you about 655 tutorials have been made and total of 4500 including all dubbing and so on. So Nancy heads that effort can the creation team sit I want the events team training team to just be training team once again they are all busy so they are the people who help organize these workshops all over the country and they put together these 86 colleges in a very short time. So thank you. So we will now have some sharing their views by partners. I would just like to add one thing you mentioned about madness. The madness actually prevails all across so there was a visitor in my office about couple of years ago spent couple of days and he observed that madness and he wrote a very interesting line on my board says you do not have to be crazy to work in this place but it helps. I am sorry we have to leave I have a tech defences thank you. So what we will do now is there are visitors partners of our projects. So I would want them to maybe one person one or two people from each institution a faculty member to stand up and say in what project they are working on and so Professor Madhavan are you going. I want Professor Madhavan to say a few words he is our senior colleague at chemical engineering department we work in the same field. So I want him to say a few words. Welcome to all I am a relic from the post in a very digital era so I may not have much to tell but you know knowledge is power and digital platform in able to integrate that knowledge consolidate that and use it for creative purpose which Kannan and his team are doing. I am sure that digital platform will help us to achieve many things and all the best to all of them and best of luck Kannan for the other parts thank you. So Professor Madhavan was a senior colleague when I joined IIT Bombay so I am really happy that he could make it here. So we will have visitors I can see Professor Sawant let's start from Professor Sawant you want to say a few words hello I am Dr Rajidhar Sawant in fact we started working with spoken tutorial project somewhere five years back when I was working in rural college somewhere around 600 kilometer away from this place and it was a backward kind of place where the graduate enrollment ratio is below 10 and there was an there was an engineering college which are short of faculty in some basic courses. Once upon a time because I am alumni from this place IIT Bombay for M.Tek and Ph.D. degrees so I used to come here to meet my guide and some work related to projects so once upon a time I met Kannan in some program and then he invited me to come to office. I met him in the office and I was inspired by him with the kind of work which he has done he has demonstrated also some spoken tutorials to me and thereafter the journey started. All of the college where nearly 700 students are actually working there studying there so all 700 students were given a training on CC++, Python and other stuff like Latek for post graduate students also Latek was helpful and my experience of five years was it was fantastic that his spoken tutorial project is giving us a lot of inputs and a lot of training. So the rural students especially. Thank you very much. Thank you. Is there anybody else? Yeah. Instead of technology we are working with IIT Bombay on this ask question and last three years we are using this facility it's really wonderful especially our student and especially our staff are getting a lot of benefit because you know if there are any questions they can attend this program and ask some questions so I think but this project has to be extended to some remote location which that's my thought process and but we are we are benefiting out of this. Thank you. So let me just explain what ask a question is sorry we didn't in the short time we were not able to explain all the projects that we are working on ask a question is a program that our team has been doing for I think we have finished how many 250 sessions in electrical engineering and yeah it's five years five years it's 250 programs and then physics we have done 50 sessions so a session means it happens once a week one hour every Thursday four to five it was inaugurated by the then Minister Honorable Minister Sri Kapil Sibal in I think it was in 2010 2010 2010 in the on the education day national education day it was inaugurated so the idea is the following even smart students have you know questions sometimes and they may have questions only in a small subject matter let's say 5% of the things they may not understand 2% of the things they may not understand and there is nobody to help them nobody to ask these questions and if they post a question in let's say Yahoo or somewhere some other portals they will get answer but what is the guarantee that that answer is correct so we thought that if so the only option available to them to get the get those difficult questions answered is to join some coaching class why that 2% 5% is important is because those are difficult concepts and in competitive exams they will there will be questions from those topics and if they don't do well they will not clear those so they have to they're forced to go to coaching classes and so on and first of all there are two problems first of all they have to pay lots of money which many people cannot afford that's the first thing the second thing is even for the people who go to these coaching classes they have to learn all the 98% because the coaching class doesn't know what this guy already knows so they in order to learn the 2% they have to you know put in 50 times the effort to learn the whole thing so why don't we set up a session in which students will ask questions and our people will answer them so that was ask a question do we have any staff members here of ask a question here okay they are all here they are all outside please visit the stall and they are the in fact they are the people who they and the TT and TT team together organize the entire stalls and so on okay so now that I have made amends for not talking about ask a question and we have a partner from there we will move on is there any other person who would like to talk about their experience please keep it brief yeah it will be brief sir good afternoon we are actually the TKT and TT remote center for this from IID Mumbai we our staff have actually got very much benefited from this programs we have covered around 14 to 15 so where are you from I am from Theme College of Engineering sir RC-81172 this is in Mumbai yeah it is it is in the suburbs of Mumbai sir it is in district Palga right now and we are also these Akash centers so many of our students have developed many applications on this Akash Android tablets and all so they have also got benefited and this Moodle through Moodle we have very good interactive sessions and all and it is very useful for us okay thank you is there anyone else who'd like you have a student yeah yeah yeah let my name is Abhishek Shanwal I'm a student from the University of Mumbai I like to talk about my experience with Iyantra so what like it all started with you know workshops in our which they conducted which IID Bombay conducted in our college and like you know there's always this fear among early or so I've noticed in engineering colleges is that students they have no idea where to begin their projects from what to what I what I need to do to like you know achieve the goal that I have in mind so it was these workshops that we that they conducted that gave us the initial push you know so we could start working on our projects and then there was this competition which brought which brought together so all all colleges from India to one place and then we understood we had this sort of idea you know where we exactly stand when it comes to the amount of knowledge we have and the amount of experience we can gain in the future so that was I mean that is one really wonderful experience that Iyantra gave us especially in the embedded systems and robotics thank you thank you is there anybody else like to share you want to yeah yeah I'm Dr. Deshmukh from Thakur College of Science and Commerce I'm a nodal coordinator for virtual lab very happy to say that we have benefited almost I think more than 500 students till now through the virtual lab and basic concepts in even biology physical sciences chemistry you know it is I'm come encompassing not only engineering sciences but also other sciences they're wonderful I've got my students also who are there to witness this digital India week program and I'm sure they're all happy if you could stand my students there are I think more than 10 students who wanted to be a witness of this program they're very happy with the animations and simulation specially some of the basic concepts are very clear that also I stand here in the capacity of a participant of environmental science workshop T10 KT where I've received knowledge as a participant through Thakur College of Engineering and Sciences I'm very happy okay thank you so much myself I'm with the PGT computer science KV IIT Pavee spoken tutorial team conducted various workshop for teachers as well as students especially software chemistry physics and computer science J.K.M. lab expresses and the python model these are very useful for school education also so we are also using this so thank you sir thank you so that was a computer faculty member in the Kendri Vidyalay IIT Bombay so we are happy that we have representation from a faculty member yes thanks do the do any of the students want to say anything we have KV students anyone bold enough to say a few words no first of all I'd like to thank my sir who has given this opportunity to me to witness such programs I'm standing here I think that these are very important things for my future and some of the things that you mentioned like the tutorials and all these things they are very essential for learning many new things and some things which are not only about me I'm very fortunate to have these facilities but I'm also talking about the other people that may not have such good conditions so thank you you want to say something is past the mic there I am G.S. Singh from Sophia College we are part of the spoken tutorial and along with the we are running the B.S.C. I.T. there so along with that I'm telling our student to do the some certificate course so the moment they will do their T.Y. at least five or six certificate courses will be there so it will give them a better opportunity to work in the I.T. industry I'm really thanks to Swapnil sir who is helping a lot in that one to conduct this course thank you sir thank you one second almost done hello everybody I'm from Thakur College and we are a resource center for spoken tutorials last year I conducted about 10 workshops on different courses there most important thing is our M.S.C. computer science students participated in Sylab workshop and they were very happy to know about Sylab open source which is which is available as a choice as a alternative to MATLAB and in spawning from there we have changed syllabus of University of Mumbai I'm working on the syllabus committee member also and now the new syllabus approved by University of Mumbai and there we have introduced Sylab software instead of using MATLAB so that what a change we will be implementing from this academic year thank you sir you want to say hello everybody I'll not take much of time so I am a lecturer at SM Shetty College Powai just nearby and since like two or three years we are conducting spoken tutorials in sky in Sylab in PHP and in Java so like they are organized very nicely even I have visited all the tutorials with respect to Java and it is helping the students as a level of the kind of in the process or the thing which we expect at industrial level as an academician there is always some limitations as Professor Patak just discussed that we have a short time tenure so we may not be able to give the kind of a knowledge we really also wanted to give because of some time less as compared to the syllabus so spoken tutorial is helping a lot in overcoming this barrier when it comes to students and I'm very thankful to Vidya Kadam ma'am who's helping us a lot in making this successful thanks a lot I came here from the institution of engineers India and my student group is different from all others other coordinators over here they are from the company working people and government sector peoples they are from different age groups also some have completed their diploma some are working since from 20 years in a company or in a government sector so due to that institution they used to complete their AMI degree and while completing that degree they used to face means attend these such type of courses open source tutorial is there so with the help of spoken tutorial they they are able to cover their CNC++ programming most major part from CNC++ programming and such how these courses are useful that also they come to know from these courses thanks a lot for IIT Pabai anyone else you want to say hello hello sir I am professor Chhatriya from the engineering college actually I'm working on the python and bridged with her or interface with the Arduino cards different types of cards mega and you know but problem with the eye what I faced I'm explaining to all actually it basically the python is not having access the GUI builder that is what I'm facing the problem one problem another freely available as such so we may have to maybe we can try to develop some GUI builder for the python itself so I would want you to we are working on the silab Arduino the team is there in the Farsi stall I would like you to in fact we are looking at controlling Arduino Uno from python also yes we would very much love to talk to you and then actually I then I shifted with the process actually the processing 2.0 which is a language generated by the MIT is the one of the very powerful language it has the image processing controlling audio interfacing RFID Bluetooth every interfacing is there in the processing 2.0 I mean 2.2.7 actually it is on which I am working and that has a basically GUI builder with a control P5 or maybe a G4P but there are also some lacunas in that in that they are but that is what I am facing so we can discuss it later yeah because not everybody will be interested in this but we can go to the start that is the opposite language all the processing and this thing opposite language so Kavya Ria wanted to say something this is just an invitation for any of the colleges here who not who not engaged with Iyantra yet we'd be very happy to work at more colleges in Bombay and I noticed that KVIT school is doing some things with some of the projects here we're quite happy to explore playground with robotics with you guys if you're interested okay so you can speak to us offline can you pass the mic there thank you Kavya I'm from Ruperil college who has become the resource center for the spoken to drill we are conducted workshop for the faculties and almost though there was reading heavily that 25 colleges faculties reported to that particular workshop now when we are interesting these types of workshops there is huge requirement from the pure science people that why there is no workshops you are conducting on some sort of a software which would be freely available for the simulation in physics or chemistry or some biological concepts so which they could use it into their classrooms where they can show some simulations on laptop projector and they can deploy that particular concept very well in the classroom itself so is is there any kind of an venture which would have by IIT Bombay where it will start this kind of activity in various colleges because most of the colleges which are there in Mumbai are from commerce art science background rather than engineering so even there is that particular requirement from these colleges so good question in fact we have Dr. Snehalath Akali upon here can you please stand up yeah so she is actually can you just once again just give the mic so we have for chemistry something called as J-mole which is a free open source software for 3d visualization of molecules small molecules as well as no macromolecules such as DNA or any protein structure so you we have created around 11 tutorials for that so you can go through that and we do actually conduct workshops and we have something for physics also just started so this called as X-Pyce and we have mathematics called as GeoGibra so we do have she is also beginning the work on biopitone yeah so we are we are acutely aware of this only thing is we need more people to create this and then one of the problems that all the projects phase in IIT is the shortage of space we are unable to recruit more staff members that's the biggest problem in Mumbai okay in even more so of course I would like to point out that IIT has been very generous in giving space to accommodate 300 staff members but the need is much bigger we need but it is happening we are aware of it in fact we want to do something for commerce front accounting is what we are looking at and then we are looking at you know statistics or is another thing acutely in need of it we need to address all of this so we have Dr. Snehalathath who will look after this science thing it's really incredible to see you know visualize a benzene molecule rotated and sometimes you see talk about this reason why some kinetics happens pathways and so on and you say that you know sometimes you say that hey this thing is so far away how come this influences the other end but if you actually visualize it this thing bends around and it comes so close not touching each other okay long chain but they are actually very close so all these things become very easy when you look at it and some of these software systems are amazing open source and they even run our run on our laptop which is the 6000 rupee laptop that we have come up with and you know even in such as you know simplest low cost laptops all these things can be made available and they are exceedingly useful thanks for asking that question actually we are doing for biology a lot many open source software in a short period of time you may see those okay thank you so are there any more comments by any of the visitors I just thought that because people have come from long distances they could say a few words you are there this university from Polytechnic College we conduct spoken tutorial workshops in our college it helps a lot because it saves time and also we added up the substitution for substitution for matlab that's the silab in our curriculum as well cc++ in our curriculum because these videos help students a lot and it saves a time and thank you to with them ma'am she coordinates very well with us to and she helps a lot to organize these workshops thank you okay okay so if there is nobody else so I would like to thank let's all stand up and sing our national anthem and then close is it here somebody search for it