http://www.mssresearch.org/?q=Towards_a_Knowledge_Society
“Towards a Knowledge Society”
A Vision for 2020
By Garry Jacobs & N. Asokan
An Educational Research Project
A proposal through the MSS Research (The Mother's Service Society), a non-profit organization established in Pondicherry, India in 1970.http://www.mssresearch.org/?q=about
This proposal goes into great detail on the initiative to have an adult literacy rate at 100 percent and increase India’s access to print and digital resources by 2020. Firstly, it lays out the literacy facts as they are in present day. It continues on to define a knowledge society and how India fits into its educational vision. The proposal is a PHENOMENAL resource from everything from India’s present stats on education, technology rates, enrollment rates, knowledge gap, to vocational interests.
Ex: (verbatim from the Introduction)
“Imagine an India in which elementary school enrolment (I-VIII) and adult literacy are approaching 100%, school drop out rates are near zero, all children who are not going on for higher academic studies receive vocational training, and computer literacy is almost up to the standard of Western nations. Imagine a country in which nearly all citizens have access to all forms of print and electronic communication media-television, telephone, the Internet.
Compare that with India as it is today, with only 64% of its people meeting even the most minimum standard of literacy, where 59% of students never complete 5th standard, where secondary enrolment is 58% but of those that enrol 54% (68% of the total age group) never complete 8th standard, where only a small percentage of youth receive vocational training before entering the workforce, and where probably less than 1% of the working age population is computer literate.”
The site in general goes into the MSS Research organization and what it’s long term goals. Other than this great article outlining education and technology in the future, the site has links to research proposals on the following subjects:
· INTERNET
· MONEY
· VALUES
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