1. Products/Solutions/Expertise of C-DAC Mumbai in Smart City Domain
eBasta

3. About eBasta
eBasta provides a framework to make school books accessible in digital forms as eBooks.
Conceived to lessen physical burden of carrying school books.
eBooks/eContent from various Stateboards and publishers available at one portal.
Target Users – Schools, Teachers, Students
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4. Problems Addressed 4

5. Components of eBasta Framework
eBasta App
Students can view the downloaded eBasta using eBasta App
Renders eBasta as defined by teacher/school in eBasta structure
Available for free download on Android, Windows Mobile and Desktop (Windows & Linux) platforms
eBasta Portal
Schools
Assemble resources (eContent) in form of an eBasta.
Students
Download prescribed eBasta
Explore eBasta/eContent and download
Publisher
Upload eContent
Don’t put stakeholders etc.
Write Publishers, teachers and children/ 5 5

6. eBasta Framework
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7. Comparative Study eBasta Existing systems
Many publishers and state boards have their own portals. Each has its own way of organisation/structure for the eContent on their portal. It is tedious for student to understand structure of each portal while accessing eBooks of multiple publishers.
Each portal usually caters to only one or a small number of providers.
eBooks/eResources available as a single book/resource. Collections of study material for a Class or for a topic is not available.
Students tend to get lost while accessing various resources downloaded from web: filenames as chosen by the provider.
Scattered in various directories generally as a flat list of files.
Readers for downloaded resources may not be available on student device.
Generally tied to one DRM vendor.
eBasta
Teachers can organise the resources in a pedagogically appropriate manner (we use the term eBasta for this)  that will be uniform for all students in the class.
For students also, this saves them from having to deal with a number of individual files on the device, and visiting different portals and resource centres.
Built using open source technologies, so development/maintenance costs are minimal.
Support for multiple DRM vendors’ solutions.

8. Technologies & Standards
Process model - ISO 9001:2008 R&D process model of SDG, CDAC Mumbai
eBasta Portal :
Developed by customization of Open Source Learning Management System Drupal (version 7.33)
Database: PostgreSQL
eBasta App :
Android - Android Programming, ADT
Desktop - Java Fx, JDK 1.8
Windows Phone - Microsoft C#.Net, Windows Phone SDK

9. Screenshots

10. Home Page

11. Search eBasta

12. Search eContent

13. eBasta App – Splash Screen

14. Available eBastas

15. Contents of book

16. Overall Statistics Number of eContents – 1691
Number of eBasta Downloads – 1520
Number of eContent Downloads – 16,886
Number of Registered & Active Schools – 735

17. Publishers on eBasta Portal
Stateboards
Private
CBSE
Punjab State Board
Katha Books
Madhya Pradesh SCERT & Textbook Board Corporation
SIERT,Rajasthan
ManPari
Maharashtra (Balbharati)
West Bengal
Pratham Books
Karnataka Textbook Society
SCERT Haryana
SBPD Publications
Tamilnadu TextBook Corporation
SCERT Chhattisgarh
Unicorn Books Pvt. Ltd
Kerala

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