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ShikshaLokam

1364 Registered Allowed team size: 2 - 4
1364 Registered Allowed team size: 2 - 4

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starts on:
Feb 03, 2025, 06:30 AM UTC (UTC)
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Feb 23, 2025, 06:29 PM UTC (UTC)

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Theme - 2  Shiksha Chaupal - Understanding the stories from the ground
Problem statement description

What issue are you trying to solve?


Grassroots women’s collectives are crucial in advancing education equity, yet their challenges, initiatives, and impact often go undocumented. The absence of structured data limits visibility, support, and opportunities for scaling effective interventions. How can technology be leveraged to systematically capture and analyze their challenges, best practices, and actions to enhance their efforts and drive meaningful change?
Overview of the problem statement Detailed problem statement. Cover the what and why of the problem. Talk about the impact it has. What is the need to solve this problem? Give examples of issues it is causing.

Shiksha Chaupal is a women-led groups formed to uplift and guide young girls on their educational journey, ensuring they receive the support they deserve. This initiative play a significant role in advancing education equity by addressing local challenges and implementing impactful interventions through discussions and coversations. However, their efforts often go undocumented due to the absence of structured data collection mechanisms. This lack of visibility prevents governments, NGOs, and funding organizations from accurately assessing the impact of these collectives, allocating resources effectively, and scaling successful interventions. Without proper documentation, policymakers also struggle to advocate for systemic changes that could further support these collectives.

The absence of an intuitive mechanism to capture and analyze the challenges, best practices, and actions of grassroots women’s collectives leads to fragmentation, making it difficult for these groups to collaborate, share knowledge, or receive the necessary support. As a result, many valuable grassroots initiatives remain isolated and underutilized, limiting their potential to create long-term, sustainable change in education equity.

The impact of this problem is significant. Without structured data, funding decisions may be misinformed, leading to inefficient allocation of resources. Successful interventions that could be scaled to other regions remain confined to their local areas, reducing their overall impact. Additionally, the lack of visibility hinders advocacy efforts, making it difficult to push for policy reforms that could further empower these collectives. For example, a grassroots women’s group working to improve girls' education in rural India may develop effective strategies for increasing enrolment and reducing dropout rates, but without proper documentation and analysis, their insights and solutions remain unnoticed by larger organizations that could amplify their efforts.

To address this issue, there is a clear need for a technology-driven solution that systematically captures, analyzes, and disseminates data on the challenges and actions of these collectives. Such a solution would provide governments and NGOs with insights, enabling them to make data-driven decisions, support advocacy efforts, and enhance collaboration among grassroots organizations. By bridging this gap, we can improve education equity, drive systemic change, and ensure that the contributions of grassroots women’s collectives are recognized, supported, and sustained.
Tech stack The solution should be built in line with the idea and principles of Digital Public Goods - Read about it here
Restrictions Solution is valid only if all the components, tools or services being used are completely open source and have open source license valid as per - https://opensource.org/licenses
Exact task

This can be divided into:


Mandatory tasks:

  • Ability to record conversations in a setting where multiple people are discussing and are often sitting far apart.
  • Reporting framework for recording issues being faced and solutions being undertaken
  • Dashboard to visualise the insights from the discussions
  • Support vernacular languages of India
  • Easy to use for non tech-savvy people
Good-to-have tasks:
  • Collaboration functionality/platform
  • Analysis and predictions of the challenges and solutions
  • Offline support
    • (User should be able to operate on the data which was previously loaded during the last internet connectivity and once the network is connected the data should sync to the backend)
Bonus tasks:
  • Gamification/ Recognition
Separate scores can be assigned to each category
Submission format A PPT which Include the following:
  • Architecture diagram
  • Solution note
  • GitHub code link - Complete code base should be open source
  • Video recording
  • Prototype link
Resources Typical format for a Shiksha Chaupal - Reading Material - Problem -Shiksha Chaupal

Set of Recording from Shiksha Chaupal Phase 1 - Recordings from Phase 1

Set of Recording from Shiksha Chaupal Phase 2 - Recordings from Phase 2

Shiksha Chaupal Phase 1 PhotoBook PPT - Photobook and PPT from Phase 1

Shiksha Chaupal Phase 1 Report - Report from Phase 1
Other details Some relevant open source solutions and capabilities in the education sector can be found here - ELEVATE and Sunbird

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