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P3.6 Towards Achieving Education for All: Realizing Sustainable Development Goals Through Space
Systems and Artificial Intelligence
Upasana Dasgupta (ACES Worldwide Alliance for Collaboration in the Exploration of Space,
Canada & Laval University, Canada); Joseph Pelton (ACES Worldwide - Alliance for
Collaboration in the Exploration of Space, USA); Ranjana Sengupta and Rana S. Prasad Namhata
(Nanritam, India); Sukdev Mahato and Sarthak Sarkar (Filix School of Education, India)

Education for All project of Nanritam, an Indian non-profit, is an ambitious yet necessary idea
born out of the difficulties faced during COVID-19 pandemic. One of its main projects is the Filix
School established in 2014 in a remote rural and economically backward area of Purulia, West
Bengal, India with the aim of providing holistic, equitable and excellent quality education to the
socio-economically challenged children of surrounding area. Filix School has very successfully
implemented a unique research-based experiential pedagogy over the past decade, significantly
improving the academic outcomes of these children. However, the pandemic meant that the school
had to provide education by digital means. Thus, ideated that the education provided to the students
of Filix school could be leveraged to a larger community. Co-created by school students under
supervision, the Filix Innovation Hub has created an artificial intelligence enabled system that
provides education to remote areas, including through space systems. Whereas the project is based
in India, it may be customized for other parts of the world. This project bolsters the idea that
excellent and contextualized quality education with the help of digital transformation can be
instrumental to achieve the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. For this project,
Nanritam has partnered with a non-profit space policy initiative - ACES Worldwide, reiterating
the importance of interconnectedness and the need of space systems in communications between
and with remote areas.

P3.7 Tiered Incentivization-Based e-Waste Management Standards

Nithyananda Kallur Venkateshmurthy (Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli, India);
Murthy S. K. (Intel Corporation, India)

Developing a standard and certification process to efficiently process e-waste is the need of the
hour. This paper identifies a few but effective requirements, which need to be incorporated into
the sustainability standards developed by IEC and other national bodies such as BSI and BIS.
Customized incentivization for the identified several players in the electronics manufacturing
ecosystem such as PC manufacturing ecosystem is identified and the rationale for such customized
incentivization and its probable impact on an efficient e-waste processing is discussed. Further, a
graded standard e-waste processing matrix is provided to encourage deeper and broader adaptation
of such e-waste processes.
P3.8 Recalibrating Technology's Role in Society
Brajesh Mishra and Abdul Kayum (Department of Telecommunications, India)

Social changes occur by a complex combination of technological innovation, often independent
and separate. This paper adopts the document analysis approach to decode how the dynamics
between technology and society have evolved post-industrialization. In this process, it maps the
existing role of technology and explores a few new trends with the growing influence of the
technology on society, including sustainability issues and dominance of technology hype. As the
outcome, the study has highlighted seven issues that need to be taken into consideration while
recalibrating the role of technology in society: standardization focus on technology role, enhanced
adoption in allied sectors to facilitate horizontal growth of technology, causality conundrum,
criticality of technology hype adjustment, approach to multi-dimensional sustainability, moving
beyond market regulation to strengthen technical regulation.

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