Survey Findings- E-Learning Readiness Among College Students
Background India currently has 95.2 % of its population who have access to electricity (World Development Indicators, 2017). The country has 86 mobile cellular subscriptions for every 100 people (World Development Indicators, 2018). However, it does poorly in terms of hours of service of its electricity as well as internet connections, only 1.3 peo...
Ten Steps to make your Campus Carbon Neutral
Have you heard of Carbon Neutrality? Carbon Neutrality means annual zero net anthropogenic (human caused or influenced) CO2 emissions by a certain date. By definition, carbon neutrality means every ton of anthropogenic CO2 emitted is compensated with an equivalent amount of CO2 removed. Why should your Campus be Carbon Neutral? The idea is to reduc...
Satellite Community Gardens
M S SWAMINATHAN BOTANICAL GARDEN CAMPUSSDG Stories on Biodiversity Conservation Behold an integrated and decentralized Garden for 'RET' (Rare, Endemic and Threatened) trees and plants managed in partnership with Community Conservers or Custodian Farmers. This Garden identifies ex-situ, on-farm and in-situ methods and approach of partnership mode by...
Revolutionizing the education to mainstream SDGs : Dr M.S. Swaminathan way
In the morning I get zoomed on subjects like 'recreating the education'. Come evening and I get webexed on 'reimagining education'. Then I get youtubed on 'rebooting the education', followed by facebooked session on 'redesigning the education'. Finally, when I go to bed I dream of 're-dreaming the education'. I consider it a welcome sign that many ...
Welcoming our new member Dr MS Swaminathan Research Foundation’s Botanical Garden campus to the Smart Campus Cloud Network Initiative
Dr MS Swaminathan Research Foundation's (MSSRF) Botanical garden campus in Wayanad, Kerala was registered with the Smart Campus Cloud Network(SCCN) this month to support the best practices in biodiversity conservation on campus. Dr Anil Kumar, Senior Director of MSSRF hailed SCCN as an initiative much in need for mainstreaming the Sustainable Devel...
IITM ENVIS and TERRE Policy Centre organized a unique World Ozone day celebration on the 16th of September. It included speakers from NASA and UNEP , Question and Answers and prizes for the winners of the various competition. Dr Paul Newman from NASA and Dr Gilbert Bankobeza from UNEP were invited to celebrate 35 years of Ozone layer protection und...
Engineer's Day in India is celebrated as a tribute to the greatest Indian engineer and Bharat Ratna Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya who was born on 15th September, 1861. Apart from being one of the greatest Civil Engineer from India he also served as Diwan of Mysore in the year 1912. In the year 1955 he received Bharat Ratna which is the highest hono...
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) unanimously agreed by all the 193-member states countries in the world in September 2015 at UN Sustainable Development Summit in New York are basically the 17 Goals to transform the world. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries - developed and...
"There are few global agreements as successful as the Vienna Convention forthe Protection of the Ozone Layer. Today, on World Ozone Day, we celebrate 35years of this convention, which was the first step in fixing the hole in the planet'sozone layer.Gases used in aerosols and cooling appliances were causing this hole. Underthe convention's Montreal ...
Young Leo , one of the interns of the International E-Internship Programme, launched by TERRE Policy Centre,asked a simple question that itself embedded a hidden solution to world's most pressing and clamouring challenge. How to feed, soon to be, 9 billionhumanity without ravaging our planet's ecosystem? Remember 'Malthusian Trap'?Thomas Malthus, ...
The word 'sustainable' is now ubiquitous and used as free-for-all adjective even for profits and wealth. 'Sustainable Profits' has entered in many corporate reports. That, however, is not the only reason to understand and differentiate between such terms and 'sustainable agriculture'. The benefits of Sustainable agriculture are critically related t...
Recently, SCCN launched a nationwide survey seeking to understand the 'E-learning readiness' for the college goers in the country- a particularly relevant subject in the current pandemic induced remote learning. The survey is designed to assess the preparedness in terms of access and quality of infrastructure related to e-learning for college stude...
"Hackathon 59 for Atma Nirbhar Bharat 2020 (HAB 59)". The HAB-59 was devised to provide a platform to young Indian talented groups in application development for IT-based solutions in multiple categories related to the 59 Chinese apps banned by the Government of India. Hackathon 59 was a National Level Hackathon that was being jointly organized by ...
There is a renewed interest in 'VUCA World' (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity in the World) during this pandemic. VUCA – first used in 1987, drawing on the leadership theories of world-renowned guru on the subject, Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus. COVID 19 situation fits well into VUCA world. COVID19 challenge is extremely serious and...
''This Policy proposes the revision and revamping of all aspects of the education structure, including its regulation and governance, to create a new system that is aligned with the aspirational goals of 21st-century education, including SDG4, while building upon India's traditions and value systems.'' – New Education Policy of India 2020. The UN h...
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