Technology

At GSTM Techlab and Services, we are working to build technologies that will bring about disruptive innovations in the field of social welfare and in higher education. Technology itself is not the innovation but the business built on the technologies will be the innovation. For example, the social technology platform that we are building is going to bring a paradigm shift in the way social benefits and financial help are exchanged between a giving individual or enterprise and a receiving individual or enterprise.

Social Technology Platform

We building a technology platform that will enable everyone who is willing to give just about anything to anyone who requires anything but does not have the means to have it. And all the exchanges through a transparent process which will be dynamically reviewed, approved, and then audited.

The technology platform we are building is not going to be just a mobile app or a web app, but a platform where anyone with or without smartphones or even without any phone can still access a very large base of willing givers.

How are we going to achieve that? Just by rethinking, by innovating, and especially by creating. By asking a fundamental question, is technology the end goal or reaching the benefits of social welfare to all is the end goal?

Education Technology Platform

We are trying to answer a simple question in building a super-tech platform that could be used globally by higher education institutions. The question is – how to make industry-academic linkage really work? By doing seminars and now in vogue, live webinars (pun intended)? Of course not. We know very well, once these seminars are over, academics go into their comfort zones and industry experts go back to their hallowed glass cabins. Nothing much really gets done.

How do we then make the process happen where real industry inputs are integrated into the academic curriculum? Well, it will be sometime before we unveil the technology that we are building but it will answer the question with a precise solution.

Another fundamental question in education we are trying to solve and build a technology platform is – how should a student’s academic performance be measured? How does one really learn which automatically reflects into some specific learning outcomes? How do we do outcome engineering possible? And how does one communicate his academic achievements or knowledge acquired or skills learned to others? By writing on a CV? By producing certificates? Well, that’s archaic. Sounds like 2 Centuries old.

Watch this space. We will make CVs redundant.

Education

We are developing programs to impart the much needed skills which make one ready for a fast emerging, fast-changing, and unpredictable world. A student of today will perhaps change jobs some tens of times and even switch career multiple times. Skills will become redundant and one has to acquire new skills all the time to stay relevant. To stay relevant in such situations, a student of today need to learn a set of fundamental skills and abilities which will make her fast adapting to the changing world.

At GSTM Techlab and Services, we are building curriculum, programs, and courses to develop the fundamental skill and abilities that students and young professionals of today will require to stay relevant to a fast-changing, fast emerging, and unpredictable world of work.

We are innovating the pedagogy and the teaching-learning outcome mechanisms. We are using outcome engineering to design the course curriculum and the pedagogy. We are building performance management mechanisms to implement a continuous assessment and improvement plan.

Watch this space for the launch of our programs.

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Future

Future is exciting, as we look at it. At GSTM Techlab and Services, we are looking at a future where futuristic technologies are applied to find out newer ways to bring about paradigm shifts and disruptive innovations in business and life which are critically required to face the challenges of a rapidly emerging, unstable, and unpredictable future. Right now, our focus is in the field of social welfare and education. But we see transferability of the concepts and technologies we develop in many other domains.

Social Welfare Delivery

There are enormous issues in scaling up and delivery of social welfare benefits to larger number of people. The typical route of piloting a project first, then scale up incrementally, then enumerate the project impact, and then raise fund based on the impact, etc. takes a very long time. This is a problem when to make the economy grow rapidly, we need to work at the fundamental social issues faced by the underpriviledged people or by the people who are out of the employment market for some reasons or the other.

Disruptions are required in this typical, conventional method of scaling up and delivery of social welfare benefits.

Education

Higher education in countries like India require a complete and exhaustive revamp. Too many aspects about India’s higher education require urgent changes. Right from course content to student performance assessment, everything requires new thinking.

The proposed National Education Policy of the Government of India is a step in the right direction. But for implementation of the policies in full spirit, what we will require is technological innovation in every aspect – from curriculum development, course content development, pedagogical architecture development, and teaching-learning method development to student performance and progress evaluation and outcome measurement, all aspects require technological interventions.

At GSTM Techlab and Services, we are looking at our significant and legacy building contribution to bring about the required changes in India’s higher education.