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THE EVERYTHING BOOK

DENTSU CREATIVE, Gurgaon / VEDANTU / 2024

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Overview

Why is this work relevant for Innovation?

India grapples with educational disparities, particularly in rural areas, where children face unequal access to quality education. Although the country boasts 692 million internet users, unreliable internet speeds remain a significant hurdle.

To address this challenge, Vedantu, a leading e-learning platform, introduced 'The Everything Book' a ground-breaking, patented internet signal aggregator. This innovative solution combines weak 2G signals to create a hyperspot, providing high-speed internet comparable to 4G.

Through this frugal innovation, Vedantu leveled the playing field, offering young minds in underserved areas equal access to quality education and igniting their potential for a brighter future.

Background

India's educational disparities persist, particularly in rural areas where children grapple with unequal access to quality education due to factors like inadequate infrastructure, teacher shortages, and poverty, often compelling them to abandon school for work. Online learning platforms promise to alleviate this challenge, yet a crucial obstacle remains unreliable internet speeds, especially in rural India, where only 5% have access to high-speed internet. Despite ongoing efforts to connect the country, completion dates are uncertain.

Vedantu, India's foremost e-learning platform, emerges as a solution ensuring uninterrupted education nationwide. Recognizing the need for an easily installable, user-friendly & scalable solution, Vedantu has introduced 'The Everything Book' This innovative, patented internet signal aggregator transforms weak 2G signals into a hyperspot, providing high-speed internet comparable to 4G. Vedantu's commitment to overcoming challenges in education aligns with its goal of delivering uninterrupted connectivity and education to students, regardless of their location, fostering a more inclusive

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India is a vast country, with terrains and cultures changing over distances. And kids in remote parts of India get disconnected from quality education, teachers, infrastructure and hence opportunities. While urban India is moulding itself per the needs of today, rural India still upholds older ways of being. They are closer to culture but aren't aware of the progress. While the sky is limitless, the children of rural India are still seeing a restricted view of the sky. They accept the lack of opportunities as their fate and henceforth had to be inspired by relatable stories of people around them.

The idea to use traditional art styles was to help make this advanced piece of tech inspire them. The drawings paired with stories that came from villages like theirs was to illustrate to them simply how life can change for the better with the right knowledge and tools.

“The Everything Book” by Vedantu tries to bridge these disparities by presenting a patented ingenious solution that solves for bringing high-quality educational content through a frugal technological solution.

Describe the idea

The Everything Book is a game-changing patented signal aggregator, operating as a cloud-based AI packet broadcaster and assembler service that groups multiple data blocks from weak 2G mobile networks and combines them into one strong “hyperspot”. By tapping into India’s network of 518 million rural telco subscribers, it allows children to connect to Vedantu’s learning platform from the remotest corners of India.

Since the device is handheld and needs to be charged like a mobile phone, it can be transported anywhere easily. Children access courses for free right from grade 1, their foundational years of education to grade 12, which is the most critical year in an Indian child’s education.

Through rigorous research, curation, and thought into designing the most fundamental aspects of the book, from the details in the pages to the overall experience of making it inclusive, distinctive and easy to absorb for the minds building India’s future.

What were the key dates in the development process?

Prototyping: 15th July 2022

Beta testing: 10th January 2023

Final deployment: 15th July 2023

Describe the innovation / technology

• How it works:

The Everything Book is a one-of-a-kind patented internet signal aggregator that combines existing weak 2G signals to form a hyperspot that delivers high-speed internet of up to 4G.

• Components:

Physical books

Online course curriculum

Airtel internet dongle

Vodaphone- Idea internet dongle

Jio internet dongle

Internet signal aggregator

Wireless power receiver module

10000 mAh internal battery

Hotspot module

Encryption and security layer

• Platforms:

Online & On-ground

• Development stage:

Final

Describe the expectations / outcome

Vedantu, India’s leading e-learning platform, is helping India learn and ensuring education won’t stop, no matter where you are. Ensuring the solution was easy to install and use, as well as scalable to cover a significant part of the country, bringing uninterrupted education and connectivity to students. Housing the patented internet signal aggregator and featuring educationally-led success stories to inspire children, The Everything Books covered 60+ villages.

"The Everything Book" is a groundbreaking patented signal aggregator, utilizing cloud-based AI to combine data blocks from weak 2G networks into a robust "hyperspot." Targeting India's 518 million rural telco subscribers, it enables children in the remotest corners to connect to Vedantu's learning platform, revolutionizing education and connectivity.

• Results/successes/developments to date:

The Everything Books covered 60+ rural villages.

50K+ hours of Vedantu content was streamed.

900 kids learned from The Everything Book.

37% increase in class attendance.

• Investment received:

5-10K USD

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