Upgrading skills of teachers

Jul 21, 2022 | Business


Several online courses are offered through DIKSHA to develop the skills of the teachers and school heads. NCERT has been offering NISHTHA (National Initiative for School Heads’ and Teachers’ Holistic Advancement) courses.


Till date there are 15 Crore enrolments in DIKSHA for the courses offered by various states and UTs, including various centers. This includes teachers, students, parents, and other stakeholders As per the courses launched as mentioned in (a), out of these 15 crores, there are more than 47 lakh teachers who have directly benefitted from NISHTHA and Continuous Professional Development (CPD) courses through DIKSHA Platform.


As of 14th July, 2022 there are exactly 2,91,168 e-contents on DIKSHA. Currently, the total number of QR coded textbooks available is 6477 textbooks. Upgrading of the website is a continuous process.


NCERT has taken several other efforts in building the competencies of teachers and enabling them to be a digital teacher. NCERT initiated a webinar series focusing to orient teachers, students and other stakeholders on various ICT tools, digital initiatives at national level, emerging trends in educational technology, cyber safety and security. Till date, nearly 625 live sessions of one hour each have been organised on ICT tools for teaching learning and assessment. A repository is also created for easy reference and can be accessed at https://ciet.nic.in/pages.php?id=webinar&ln=en .


Also, last week of every month on a given day online classes are being conducted in areas related to Education Technology (ET) and Information and Communications Technology (ICT). Around 11 such trainings have been organized. More than 3 Lakh teachers have benefitted from these training sessions. A repository is also created for easy reference and can be accessed at https://ciet.nic.in/workshop-training.php?&ln=en


State Resource Groups (SRGs) trainings have been conducted in all 36 States/ UTs in a phased manner regularly to develop the skills of using resources in DIKSHA as well as to develop quality digital content and distribute on DIKSHA. Around 720 State Resource Persons (SRPs) across 36 States/ UTs were trained. During the year 2020-21, around 770 SRPs were trained through online training in two phases and during 2021-22 around 643 SRPs were trained online training in four phases.


The information was given by the Minister of State for Education, Smt. Annpurna Devi in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.


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Hong Kong – Proposed upgrading of remaining sections of Kam Tin Road and Lam Kam Road gazetted

Sep 17, 2021 | International

Proposed upgrading of remaining sections of Kam Tin Road and Lam Kam Road gazetted

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     The Government gazetted today (September 17) the proposed road works to upgrade the section of Kam Tin Road between Tung Wui Road and Lam Kam Road and the section of Lam Kam Road between Kam Tin Road and Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden for enhancement of road safety.
      
     Details of the proposal are set out in the Annex. The plans and scheme of the works are available for public inspection at the following government offices during office hours:

Central and Western Home Affairs Enquiry Centre, 
G/F, Harbour Building, 
38 Pier Road, Central, Hong Kong

Yuen Long Home Affairs Enquiry Centre, 
G/F, Yuen Long District Office Building,
269 Castle Peak Road, Yuen Long,
New Territories

Tai Po Home Affairs Enquiry Centre, 
G/F, Tai Po Government Offices Building,
1 Ting Kok Road, Tai Po, New Territories

District Lands Office, Yuen Long,
9/F, Yuen Long Government Offices,
2 Kiu Lok Square, Yuen Long, New Territories

District Lands Office, Tai Po,
1/F, Tai Po Government Offices Building,
1 Ting Kok Road, Tai Po, New Territories

     The gazette notice, scheme, plans, the resumption plan and location plan are available at www.thb.gov.hk/eng/psp/publications/transport/gazette/gazette.htm.
      
     Any person who wishes to object to the works or the use, or both, is required to address to the Secretary for Transport and Housing an objection in writing, which can be submitted via the following means:
 

  • By post or by hand to the Transport and Housing Bureau’s drop-in box No. 6 located at the entrance on 2/F, East Wing, Central Government Offices, 2 Tim Mei Avenue, Tamar, Hong Kong. The box is available for use between 8am and 7pm from Monday to Friday (except public holidays);
  • By fax to 2868 4643; or
  • By email to gazettethb@thb.gov.hk.

      
     A notice of objection should describe the objector’s interest and the manner in which he or she alleges that he or she will be affected by the works or the use.  Objectors are requested to provide contact details to facilitate communication. A notice of objection should be delivered to the Secretary for Transport and Housing not later than November 16, 2021.

UPGRADING STORAGE TO SPEED UP THE BLOCKCHAIN BOTTLENECK: HOW ABEYCHAIN 2.0 PLANS TO BECOME A BLOCKCHAIN OF CHOICE FOR DEVELOPERS

May 26, 2021 | Business

VADUZ, LICHTENSTEIN, 26 May 2021, ZEXPRWIRE, Launched in March of 2021, ABEYCHAIN 2.0 is a leading public chain looking to solve the biggest problem confronting permissionless blockchains: the tradeoff between decentralization and efficiency. ABEYCHAIN 2.0 uses the DPoS Committee as a fast chain. This processes transactions and gives the committee’s oversight to the PoW node. The initial chain also integrates the FruitChain technology into the traditional POW algorithm protocol and implements the PoW protocol.

FINDING THE BALANCE BETWEEN DECENTRALIZATION AND CENTRALIZATION

ABEYCHAIN 2.0 wants to provide a secure storage server and distribution network that protects data from hacks and technical issues. ABEY Storage is spread out into different servers across the world in different nodes. That data is encrypted so it can’t be hacked. This storage system will be a fair, open, honest data storage solution with no central points of failure.

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ABEY STORAGE TOKEN AND FILECOIN

There’s no other blockchain project that has a similar type of cross-chain asset like the ABEY Storage Token against Filecoin. Filecoin was the original provider of an incentive layer to IPFS. Miners earn rewards, known as FIL, for the storage and retrieval of files on IPFS. But if any miners are out of compliance, they will be fined and potentially terminated from the network. The ABEY Storage Network solves this problem with a new advanced alternative data storage platform integrated with the IPFS. Those who participate in mining ABEY can also activate mining for AST, which means miners can contribute storage capacity from their servers and get AST back. AST has 100% parity with FIL and can be immediately traded at the same price (1:1) as Filecoin. AST has 100% liquidity and is issued on ABEYCHAIN 2.0.

ABEYCHAIN 2.0’S PERFORMANCE SINCE LAUNCHING IN MARCH

ABEYCHAIN 2.0 has seen the number of unique addresses on the ABEY ecosystem grow by more than 50% since launching in March. In the ABEY ecosystem, each account belongs to one individual person.  Adding that many new users to the network after just two months is nothing short of amazing.

HOW TO ONBOARD TO THE ABEY ECOSYSTEM

The ABEY ecosystem, including the ABEY Token is available right now. ABEY Token trading is on www.zbx.com or www.zbx.plus. For more information on the ABEY blockchain, you can visit the homepage at www.abey.com, where you can find the initial scientific whitepaper, download links for the wallet and the other information.

ABOUT THE ABEY FOUNDATION

The ABEY Foundation contributes governance, and research, for the ABEYCHAIN, while maintaining the integrity of the core technology. The Foundation provides guidance, and direction for the ABEY Community and Ecosystems, and has a strong a commitment to protect the immutable freedom of all ABEY users now, and for future generations. For more information, visit: www.abey.org