After having been associated with Parikrma through YEFI-Parikrma school for more than 4 years, I decided to take the plunge and work with Parikrma full time. So on one friday morning I walked into one of the 4 Parikrma schools and gave Shukla (CEO of Parikrma) the news that I had decided to leave behind my Yahoo! days. Then I looked at her hopefully and asked if there was anything Parikrma could use me for.
Things moved at lightning pace after that. She roped in Vivek and started running me through the role that they were just begining to feel the need for. I joined the following Monday and things are moving forward so fast.
Parikrma is a tech friendly school. It might have something to do with being in Bangalore, or being associated with so many tech companies, or the tech savvyness of the founders. In any case, they try to embrase technology as much as possible and recognize the role technology can play in their orgainzation. They needed someone to oversee all the initiatives they have started.
The 4 schools are connected through a dedicated wireless ring. They have in house servers and their vision is to have not just an intranet, but also have virtual classrooms. They are looking to get software for donor management, inventory management, child academic tracking, child health tracking, child family tracking etc. They hope to get a digital library as well. Now the challenge for them is to have someone head all of these initiatives and put them together in a cohesive manner. And of course, they have tons of logistics issues like no power backup, no dust free rooms AC rooms to put their hardware in, lack of trained technical staff etc.
As I write this, I realize, I have a LOT on my hands. I better get down to it right now.
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