To view our latest interviews with our DTA II project participants please see our YouTube channel at the following link:
DTA II User Interviews
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View Interviews with Amadeyr Tablet users
To view interviews with our current users, please visit our YouTube channel at:
http://www.youtube.com/user/amadeyrcloud?feature=watch
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Channel I Site Visit - May 18, 2012
On May 18, Channel I visited the DTA II project site. This gave the project participants the opportunity talk about their experience in using the tablet.
The interview will be aired on May 26th.
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Preparation For Closeout of DTA II
On Sunday, June 24, 2012, the ACL met at site with the local site staff to begin the closeout process for the DTA II project. Members of household who participated in a baseline survey will be given an end line survey this week. The purpose of the surveys is to compare what users know before the tablet intervention, and after. All of the information that they will be tested on is in the tablet and the questions in both surveys are the same except for a few additional questions on their experience with the tablet in the end line.
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Amadeyr Cloud Ltd. partners with Eucalyptus System Inc.
We are proud to announce that we have signed a partnership contract with Eucalyptus Systems, creators of the most widely deployed open source on-premise infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud platform. For more than 2 years Amadeyr Cloud Ltd. has been building its own infrastructure on open source technologies.
About Eucalyptus Systems
Eucalyptus Systems provides IT organizations in enterprises, government agencies and Web and mobile businesses with the most widely deployed cloud software platform for on-premise Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). To date, over 25,000 Eucalyptus clouds have been started all over the world, including more than 20 percent of Fortune 100 companies. Eucalyptus is specifically designed for enterprise cloud use, and the software platform is uniquely suited for private cloud or hybrid cloud computing. Built as an open source cloud product, Eucalyptus supports the industry-standard Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud APIs, as well as all major virtualization platforms including Xen, KVM and VMware vSphere, ESX and ESXi. The company has an active and growing ecosystem of customers, partners, developers and researchers that benefit from Eucalyptus’ open, fast and standards-compliant path to cloud computing. For more information about Eucalyptus, please visitwww.eucalyptus.com.
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Digits to All (DTA) II Project Closeout
On July 9th, 2012 the ACL staff along with two Board Members traveled to the site for the purpose of handing out Certificates of appreciation and to personally thank the Moishal and Amarachala villagers for participating in the DTA II project. Above are a few photos from the certificate handout. Although many participants were sad that the project was completed they all said they appreciated the opportunity to learn from the tablet.
Of the 138 contents on the tablet here is a list of the top 10 most viewed:
Most Viewed Contents
Complimentary feeding 4
How to File a General Diary
Action taken after acid attack
Bengali alphabets (Okkhor) - application
Bead-urea related folk song
Empowerment of women
Women’s role in agriculture
Improving cultivation of herbs and fruits
Animals - interactive application
Rats infestation
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DTA II Project Closeout Report
In reaching towards Bangladesh’s Millennium Development Goals alternative methods need to be utilized in order to achieve the desired targets. Technology fashioned in a usable form can provide the “tool” for development to the masses that currently only an intimate group has access to, this tool being information.
Below is a copy of our DTA II project closeout report. The report discusses in general the findings of the project. The results of this project demonstrates that technology can be used to deliver information to literate, semi literate, and illiterate users alike. The tablets used in the project are by no means intended to replace facilities, rather to provide immediate information in the interim.
This report is the sole property of Amadeyr Cloud Ltd. and may not be reproduced in part or in whole with out our written permission.
Click on the link below to download the report.
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Digits to All Project cited in World Bank IC4D 2012 Report
We are proud to announce that our “Digits to All” project has been featured in the World Bank 2012 Information and Communications for Development (IC4D 2012) Report entitled Maximizing Mobile (see page 24). To view this report, please see the World Bank link below:
www.worldbank.org/ict/ic4d2012
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BBS Consumer Price Index (CPI) Digitization
On the last day of August 2012, Amadeyr Cloud Ltd. (ACL) signed a contract with the Bangladesh Bureau Of Statics (BBS) to digitize the collection process of consumer prices for four index baskets. This job entailed creating a system where BBS field employees (rural and urban) using a seven-inch tablet could seamlessly collect the required index information and directly send the prices to BBS headquarters. Along with the collected price, the BBS will be receiving GPS coordinates for each collected itemed along with a time/date stamp. Reports as per the BBS requirement, will also be automatically generated and stored using a SaaS program developed by and hosted on a cloud server maintained by ACL.
On November 11, ACL successfully demonstrated the completed digitized CPI process and is prepared to begin training 185 BBS employees nominated for training.
Digitization of the CPI will not only reduce paperwork but it will also increase efficiency, accountability and transparency.
From left: CPI live data collection in Kurigram; CPI live data collection from Potuaichali
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ACL Intern Selected as a Session Chair for ICCSPA'13 in UAE
Ms. Sabah Shamsy, an intern with Amadeyr Cloud Ltd. was selected as a session chair for the First International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing and their Applications (ICCSPA'13) in Sharjah, UAE (February 12 – 14, 2013). During the event she presented her paper on “EXIT Chart Analysis of Repeat Accumulate Codes for Log-BCJR Algorithm in Iterative Decoding” which will be published in IEEE Xplore next month. Her presentation outlined a simplified version of the complex BCJR algorithm (used in wireless communications) that she developed by using a trellis diagram and then preformed the algorithm in a turbo-like code to analyze the performance. Ms. Shamsy did her MSc in Wireless Communications from University of Southampton, UK, and is currently focusing on Network Latency and Alternative Energy.
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ACL Partners With the StreetWise Education Foundation
On May 30, 2013 Amadeyr Cloud Ltd. loaned 21 Android seven-inch tablets to the beautiful students of the StreetWise Education Foundation. The six-month project’s aim is to provide public information to the children through a focused delivery system. Content on the tablet includes government promotional videos on: saying no to early marriage, dowry, domestic violence, health and hygiene, nutrition, how to file a general diary etc. The tablet also has other promotions such as what to do after an acid attack, laws against eve teasing, your basic rights, alternative income generation ideas and more.
For more information on the StreetWise Education Foundation, please visit their Face book page: https://www.facebook.com/streetwise.bangladesh
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ACL Partners with University of Virginia Research Team
In May of this year Amadeyr Cloud Ltd. (ACL) was approached by a research team from the University of Virginia (UofV) for the purpose of testing the Amadeyr Tablets at BRAC’s Gonokendros (community libraries). The intention was to test “the potential integration of tablets into this system”. ACL supplied the team with five tablets fully loaded with the Digits to All projects' content using the ADS to deliver information, monitor and measure usage.
The team found that regardless of age, the Gonokendro users were highly interested in the tablets, had no difficulty accessing the information on the tablets which could be easily integrated into the library system.
All photos By: Paige McDermott
A big thank you to University of Virginia Research Team members: Paige McDermott, Daniel Ng, Jack Sullivan, and Sarah Turkaly for including us in their "needs and capabilities assessment" of the BRAC Gonokendros! The university team members were recipients of the Jefferson Public Citizens Award: http://www.virginia.edu/jpc/projects.html
Special thanks to Paige McDermott for the photos above!
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Streetwise Foundation Follow Up Visit
we conducted a four-month follow up visit with the staff and children of the Streetwise Foundation project. The purpose of the visit was to conduct a survey of their progress (in relation to tablet usage), have a question and answer feedback session and give an introductory talk on what programmers do & programming as an occupation.
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Amadeyr Cloud Ltd. Featured In UN-APCICT ODL Case Study
Amadeyr Cloud Ltd. was featured in the United Nations Open and Distance Learning in Asia and the Pacific ICTD Case Studay 3 Report. To view this report, please see the link below:
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