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Innovation and Digital Transformation for a Sustainable World
program partners with experts on the supply side provides a user-friendly experience for
for technology and content and on the other students and provides teachers with valuable
hand, partners with various organizations rooted insights into assessments and progress
in the community with direct access to children tracking.
for fast proliferation of those knowledge and
technology. The Filibot’s features includes interactive and
dynamic Learning through Filibot's well
The EFA project uses the following innovative designed executable lesson plans, contents and
approaches in order to make real and sustainable visuals together with ChatBot Sequence Design.
change: It also allows users to explore subjects by asking
(a) It relies on local population of remote areas questions to the chatbot. Further, Filibot
to spread education there. In order to reach monitors students’ performance and provides
every remote corner, it is not sufficient to grade insights. It also aims to use generative
depend on only highly qualified and formal artificial intelligence by training large language
teachers. model with the gamut of knowledge developed
(b) Hence, it is important to identify the existing at the Filix school.
and potential dedicated and passionate
educators and/ or change maker clusters and This EFA program is a significant step towards
networks alreadt existing in the remote India’s National Initiative for Proficiency in
areas. These people may range from formal Reading with Understanding and Numeracy
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school teachers and community teachers to (NIPUN) Bharat Mission which is a key
large institutional community volunteers. feature of realization of National Education
Nanritam’s EFA has identified and trained Policy 2020 (NEP) which aims to achieve
nearly 2,200 people to spread education, universal foundational literacy and numeracy in
thus impacting more than 65,000 children in primary schools by 2025. The EFA is also a
5 states in India. major step towards Digital Infrastructure for
(c) For a sustainable solution, it is important to Knowledge Sharing (DIKSHA) of NEP.
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equip, empower and train these educators by
leveraging the world class proven pedagogy
and body of knowledge tested and perfected
at the Filix school. The educators can access
this gamut of knowledge and pedagogy
through an educational technology platform
developed. The technology platform imparts
education on foundational literacy and
numeracy such as addition, multiplication,
opposite words, position words, rhyming
words, vowels, etc. The platform is also
training a large language model based on
curriculum developed at Nanritam’s Filix
school. 4. Partnership between Nanritam and
(d) Filibot is an artificial intelligence enabled ACES Worldwide
Ed Tech platform, co-created by bright
young minds at Filix school under the Nanritam was established in 2002 by a group of
supervision of their teachers and experts. professionals who were inspired by the
The Filibot empowers the EFA program and teachings of Swami Lokeswarananda, revered
builds connection between several monk of Ramakrishna order. Nanritam has four
stakeholders including the students. verticals: health, education, support to agri-
(e) As of now, using existing livelihood and nutrition and health of
telecommunication network in India, Filibot developmentally challenged children. Starting
just with a handful of dedicated individuals in
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