Beyond Internet Access, EdTech Must Secure Confidence of Parents
Access to technology is still a questionable reality in most states of India today. This disparity is further skewed with a clear gender bias – fewer females have access to phones or internet than their male counterparts. For example, the Delhi government under its ‘Mission Buniyad’ initiative is using Interactive Voice Recording – so that parents, siblings, or students can give a missed call to get an audio lesson every alternate day – to the 8,00,000 children enrolled in classes 3-8 across government schools. The penetration of technologies such as SMS, audio calls, or even radio is far higher than smartphones, tablets, computers, and internet connections. In the 1990s, India developed effective broadcast education programmes, but we moved past them after Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan promised universal access to schools.
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