What rules you need to follow to create a MIE?

These are excerpts from i4donline.net Centre for Science, Development & Media Studies

A set of guidelines have been developed that enables educators to set up their own MIE kiosk facilities. These include:

General instructions

• Site selection
• Architectural plans
• Purchases required including proprietary pointing and remote sensing hardware and software
• Electrical installation
• A portal to help children navigate to sites and applications
• Downloadable utilities
• Downloadable games
• Educational tests and remote sensing data analysis tools
• Legal and safety related issues

Based on the experience and data gathered over the last four years, it can be argued that such “playground” access points should be a part of every primary school. Where primary schools are not available, such facilities could provide even more vital “emergency” educational inputs. MIE for children through public Internet kiosks should form an integral part of primary education in the 21st century. It has the potential to not only close the “digital divide” rapidly, but also to unlock the creative potential for self-development of children that eminent educationists have sought to do for over a century.