Directi's Educational Initiatives
At Directi, my colleagues and I have been devoting significant personal time and energy towards enhancing the quality of education within India. We firmly believe that progress is most likely to be achieved when private companies work hand-in-hand with educational institutes. It is in this spirit that we have undertaken a number of social and community based initiatives. Our goal is to encourage students to bring their technical and business ideas into the real world so that they can help shape the companies of tomorrow. This page highlights our most important educational achievements.
- .pw Suite for Educational Institutes
- CodeChef - India's Largest Programming Competition
- Directi Case Study Competition
- Directi teaches courses on Online Marketing B-Schools
- Directi holds technical workshops in engineering institutes across the country
- Directi sponsors the Indian ACM ICPC 2010 world finalists
Feel free to connect with us and share your feedback or know how your institute can benefit from these initiatives.
Cheers!
Bhavin Turakhia
CEO, Directi
.pw Suite for Educational Institutes
.pw provides real-time collaboration tools for businesses and teams. Directi offers the complete suite of .pw products free for life to educational institutions. The product suite enables students, faculty and alumni to connect in a seamless manner and form an online campus community. Below are a few key points of the offering
- Email for Life - Faculty, Staff, Students & Alumni, such as student-name@institutionname.ac.in & student-name@alumni.institutionname.ac.in
- Anti Spam and Anti Virus for Email
- Instant Messenger / Chat for students
- Hosting of Institute websites
- Student Blogs & Wikis
- Dedicated Support Personnel
To find out more about how .pw can help your school or university contact us
CodeChef - India's Largest Programming Competition
With participation from over 25,000 students and professionals across the country, CodeChef is India's largest programming competition. Since its inception in January of 2009 CodeChef has rewarded and recognized hundreds of top programmers, and given tens of thousands more ways to improve their software engineering skills. CodeChef also hosts regular meetups allowing programmers to socialize and meet the people behind the geeky handles. Additionally, CodeChef works directly with engineering institutes to host technical talks and local programming contests. Our goal is to create a community of software developers that truly fosters learning and growth.
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Directi Case Study Competition
In December of 2009 Directi hosted its first ever Business Case Study Challenge. With over 1400 participants from the top B-Schools in India, the competition attracted some of the countries brightest minds. The case study asked students to develop marketing and monetization strategies for internet businesses, giving them critical exposure to an emerging industry.
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Directi teaches courses on Online Marketing B-Schools
Directi has created a course on Online advertising and Social Media Marketing which is currently delivered at SP Jain, NMIMS and ISB. The course sheds light on how online advertising and Social media is collaborative, where consumers help shape brands as opposed to traditional marketing which used to be one way communication. Similarly by empowering students through these tools, they can help shape the direction of the class. It's no longer one way (teacher to student), but the students take ownership in driving the direction of the course. You can view all the course videos here: http://vimeo.com/7914192
Intro to Paid Online Marketing - Directi from Amit Klein on Vimeo.
Directi holds technical workshops in engineering institutes across the country
Tech-inclined Directians have been volunteering significant personal time and energy towards constantly enhancing the programming talent across the country through several social and community initiatives. Over the last few years we have delivered sessions at multiple colleges, festivals, conferences and community gatherings. You will find more presentations in our Dev University
CodeChef Talk at MPSTME, NMIMS (Mumbai) from Directi on Vimeo.
Snippet of Vineet Gupta's Session on Building Highly Scalable and Available Web Applications from Directi on Vimeo.
Kamala Yazhini gives a session on Dynamic Programming at the CodeChef MeetUp in Delhi on 31/10/2009 from Directi on Vimeo.
Directi sponsors the Indian ACM ICPC 2010 world finalists
Sponsoring the ACM ICPC world finalists is another initiative on our part to assist our champions in putting India on the map within the coding circuit. We at Directi have personally interacted with all the members in these teams - all brilliant individuals - and we are proud to have sponsored them for the ACM ICPC world finals.
