Tinfo Mobile Wins Reliance Application Contest For An M-literacy App

Tinfo Mobile, a Thiruvananthapuram-based mobile content company, seems to be doing some “good” work. They have won the Reliance National Mobile Applications Development contest for the second time. This time, they have developed an application called TeachMe Akshara – which essentially seeks to remove illiteracy using mobile phone. TeachMe has been developed on Tinfo Mobile’s proprietary ‘VectorDraw’ engine that enables portability of any language.
They claim that theirs is the first vernacular language utility that teaches the letters of a language on the mobile. I haven’t tried their application, but a small note about their application sent to me by Tinfo Mobile’s CEO Jayadev Gopalakrishnan claims that it can be used to read and write each alphabet, learn how it is pronounced, and also how the letter is used.
I think it’s a great application for India since more than half of the population is illiterate while mobile as a medium is becoming really mass. Last year, Tinfo Mobile developed ‘All Minder’, an application that helps the visually-impaired ‘hear’ SMS and missed calls (perhaps the world’s first CSR programme for the visually-impaired in the mobile medium). It’s good to see such “socially responsible” applications from the mobile content industry once in a while.

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