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Describes the problem statement (why) and vision (what) of cQube & cQube Ed along with their roadmap (how)

Product Overview

cQube Vision

cQube is envisioned as a ready-to-use / pre-packaged, configurable, and extendable DPG solution to enable observability and action towards effective policy implementation in education and other sectors, involving various stakeholders across govt, society, and private sectors.

Problem Statement

There are several challenges that government program owners face while leveraging technology for monitoring public programs:

• Program administrators face challenges in defining actionable insights and relevant indicators for tracking
• Data ingestion, processing & visualisation available as disaggregated products, not packaged into a solution
• Governments are unable to hire expert technical staff (architects, engineers) to smartly leverage a combination of available products together for end-to-end monitoring
• Governments have budget and digital infrastructure (server) limitations

cQube as a Solution

cQube offers two core differential value propositions for monitoring programs:

• A domain-agnostic product packaging of ingestion, processing and visualisation layer in a manner that is:
  • Easy to deploy with minimal engineering staff
  • Lite deployment (minimal infrastructure requirements optimised to program needs)
  • Built for scale (to be scale tested with ~500k users)
  • Leverages reference schemas and spec-compliant API based implementation
  • Brownfield ready with modular components interoperable with existing systems
• Domain-specific configuration layer allowing out-of-the-box contextualisation of indicators, insights, role based nudges and actions

cQube Ed

Vidya Samiksha Kendra was initiated by Ministry of Education as a program to improve monitoring of schemes / programs in education:

• Objective to effectively collect, monitor, correlate and analyse data to take timely decisions
• Envisioned as state-level systems to monitor schemes / programs and build accountability in field-staff
• Overall goal to drive a big leap in learning outcomes through meaningful data based actions

cQube Ed is a pre-packaged solution for education with 120+ pre-defined actionable indicators & insights like attendance, assessment etc. It acts as an accelerator for states in fast tracking their Vidya Samiksha Kendra journeys.

Design Principles for cQube Ed

cQube Ed is based on the following design principles:

1. Solution: cQube is neither a tool nor a platform. It is a ready-to-use/pre-packaged, configurable, and extendable solution to enable observability and action towards effective policy implementation in education and other sectors, involving various stakeholders across govt, society, and private sectors.
2. Education-specific: A pre-packaged solution of cQube for education, cQube Ed, comes with a set of predefined actionable indicators and insights which are specific to education. For eg: the metrics could be related to attendance, enrolment, assessments etc. The schema for data ingestion will also be defined for edu-specific indicators.
3. Based in Indian Context: cQube is based in the Indian context, implying that the jurisdictions and hierarchies will be defined accordingly. For eg: The hierarchy for cQube Ed will be as follows - State > District > Block > Cluster > School > Class.

cQube Ed Roadmap

The cQube Ed Roadmap till June'23 has been published below. You can access it from this link as well.

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