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I’ve got a perfect picture for you. Mongolian President and 108 mothers.What is Mongolia’s solution to increase the birthrate?Mongolia awards its mothers with medals. In 2016, it awarded 108 mothers. If you give birth to four kids you get a Distinguished Mother Award 2nd class (the official name is : Order of Maternal Glory 2nd Class, but I like the other translation). If you give birth to six and more you get the Distinguished Mother award 1st class.(the official name is : Order of Maternal Glory 1st Class)While doing research I found out that the law that was passed in 1957 to establish this medal is still current. It’s in fact, the longest functioning law in Mongolia. To understand the enormity of it, Mongolia had two different constitutions since 1950s and complete change of the government system from Socialist to Democratic.Talk about consistency.So, did it work?All together more than 130,000 mothers received the medals. The population of Mongolia in 1958 was 884,000. Today, the population is 3,119,935. So, yes it worked.So what are the advantages of having the medal?1st class gets roughly 100usd, 2nd 50usd per year, so its not much even in MongoliaMothers can retire 5 years earlier than other women. The retirement age of women with these medals is 50 years. This one is better.In my opinion, the material advantages were too low to count. Being a Distinguished Mother was, on the other hand, prestigious. We used to say, without any irony, she did her patriotic duty.Even though my grandmother had the medal (she had 9 kids), I always thought this medal was strange. So once, when my colleague got the medal (she had 4 kids) I asked her about the medal and whether it is applicable, today. She looked straight at me and said: “Anand, when you give birth to 4 children, you can tell me if this medal is applicable or not. I deserve it!”Wisely, I chose to shut up…

This 15-Year-Old Tech Expert Is Proof That Good Education Is India’s Key To Success15-year-old Anuj Nirmal’s interests range from writing his blog, building robots and researching on how to create learning apps, to studying human psychology and predicting how people would behave in different circumstances. His personal achievements so far range from winning an inter-school parliamentary debate competition against 30 teams to placing second in a city-wide Kho-Kho competition organized by the BMC – naming but a mere few. He has also recently been the student facilitator at a Teach For All Conference which saw participation by leaders like Wendy Kopp (Founder – Teach For America) and State Senator (Colorado) Mike Johnston.Anuj and his family moved from a small village near Allahabad to a one room set-up in Prem Nagar Chawl in the bustling suburbs of Goregaon, Mumbai a few years ago to start life afresh. He is the youngest of 3 children and his parents iron clothes for a living. However, his tough circumstances have never deterred him from his dreams – Anuj is not only a brilliant student but also makes it point to find the time for his passion for technology.“I was 7 years old when sci-fi and superhero movies began to inspire me. I loved watching how superheroes were able to help the world using technology!” he says with a grin. It was then that he started to keep a journal of all the ideas that would strike his mind and experiment them on any object that he could find around him. “I dismantled a DVD player I found somewhere once and used its parts to create a locomotive engine for a small prototype crane lift. My experimenting actually caused a power failure inside the house once which made my parents ban the activity at home altogether!”In the absence of a computer at home, Anuj would save up money to visit an internet café to write his blog – where the owner discovered his ability to type fast and offered him a job. “I got to use his computers for free and paid my school fees with the salary he gave me. My weekday evenings and all Sundays since then are spent working at the café where I teach Microsoft Office and undertake admin duties along with learning the basics of coding and javascript myself.”Anuj draws inspiration from his parents and teachers alike. “Studying in Siddharth Nagar municipal school, I’ve been fortunate to have Teach For India Fellows as my teachers since 3rd Grade as they’ve always guided me and supported my ideas. I recently developed an interest in hacking and showed my science teacher and TFI Fellow Sravanti Didi how easy it was to hack into her computer. She wisely made me aware about cyber law and ethical hacking and recommended that I look up Ankit Fadia who wrote a book on ethical hacking in 2001 when he was just 15. Another Teach For India Fellow, Apoorva Didi, taught us how to debate and construct arguments. I’ve always been a shy public speaker but Apoorva Didi made me challenge my fear by taking us to the mall and asking us to debate in front of all the people there!”For a 15-year-old, Anuj has perfected the art of managing his time prudently. He wakes up at 5 AM every day, studies for an hour before reaching school at 7 AM. Being the Head Boy, he starts by making sure that everything is clean and ends the day by leading other students to disperse school in an orderly fashion. Since the school does not have a Hindi or Marathi teacher, Anuj attends tuitions 2 – 3:30 PM to address his weakness with language studies and then proceeds for Just For Kicks football practice (a TFI led annual inter-school competition) at 5 PM before heading to the internet café at 7PM where he works till 9.30PM. He has also been selected by Teach for India to be in the Planning Committee for the next phase of the organisation. “I feel so happy to be able to give my views and ideas. Teachers are usually aware about their classrooms to only a certain extent – when I interact with my classmates during recess and outside school, I get to see another side to them. I hope I can make as much of a contribution to the next phase of Teach For India as their Fellows have made to my life and thinking over the last 5 years,” he says solemnly with heart-warming humility and touching honesty.Anuj dreams to be the youngest founder of a technology company called Anuj’s Products that would build various tech gadgets and wishes to use the money that he makes from this company to build hospitals and schools for the poor. “God has given us one life and we should use it to the fullest. I feel like crying when I look at beggars and handicapped people on the street and wonder why nobody is even trying to train them to talk on the phone so that they can work in a BPO for example? After all they can still use their mouth to speak! I want to make technology that can help such people so that nobody is ever left helpless. I also see boys in my area who sit on their bikes all day – smoking and picking up fights all day. If they are so interested in fighting, they should do something useful and join the military!”Children like Anuj Nirmal are our hope for tomorrow. Hope that one day every child in our country would be able to nurture a strong dream of his/her own.Teach For India’s Fellowship program places outstanding working professionals and college graduates as Fellows – who work full-time for two years in low-income & under-resourced schools teaching underprivileged kids. Applications to the 2016-18 Teach For India Fellowship program are now open. Application Deadline: 2nd February 2016.Source: http://www.youthkiawaaz.com/2016/01/anuj-nirmal-teach-for-india/

Personal Robots ecosystem [think of Personal Computer ecosystem of yesteryears]Robotics in 2016 is similar to where Computers were in 1976. There are plenty of large industrial applications on one end and there is a thriving hobby market for kits on the other end. Then there are special purpose home robots like Roomba that does one job [vacuuming].A new category is entering this year - social robots - with cool new toys like Jibo, Pepper, Buddy and others. These focus a lot on communication and interactivity. 2016 will be a pivotal year for social robotsWhat Apple Macintosh and IBM PC Clones did in 70s & 80s is likely to happen in Robotics. Where the hobby, industrial and entertainment use are all likely to get fused with one personal robot with which you can attach many peripherals running on the new era Intel - Aruduino/Raspberry Pi.The single Robot on every living room can help your kids learn programming, can help you play in 3D world, can clean up the home, can help you communicate with your friends & officer workers via holographic calls, can convert voice to text for basic document management and can connect to your TV to stream. That general purpose robot with a number of optional peripherals [like how our grandfathers bought mouse, keyboard etc] controlled by a handful of large companies is likely to be a major investment driver.This "computer" can now be hooked into a 3D printer/scanner, just like how people did 2D printing/scanning 10 years ago, printing even new peripherals, applications or just cool toys for you.All of these technologies are available individually, but they are not connected to an ecosystem like how powerful the PC ecosystem came into place a few decades ago. There needs to be a whole range of large software providers who will spring from this opportunity and same with peripherals, 3d party vendors, retail providers, support etc.