Jaydeep Pathare

Jaydeep Pathare
जयदीप पठारे
Jaydeep Pathare presenting Drought Help Group at Manthan Awards, New Delhi
Born 6 November 1987
Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, India
Residence Pune, Maharashtra
Nationality Indian
Alma mater Auxilium Convent Highschool, Ahmednagar.
Pune University
Occupation Entrepreneur,
Director of Systele Solutions Pvt. Ltd.,
Social Worker
Religion Hindu
Spouse(s) Nikita Pathare
Parent(s) Sambhaji Pathare
Chanda Pathare

Jaydeep Pathare is an entrepreneur from Pune
He is Founder of Systele Solutions- Pune based, software & technology company.
He has earlier co-founded a software company in Pune. He has also initiated a mass Digital Literacy campaign for rural students through his NGO Prayas Youth Forum since 2008.[1][2]
Jaydeep and his group's work for drought relief were recently featured by facebookstories.com to celebrate 100 million Facebook users in India.[3]

Jaydeep is a supporter of Social Media & has leveraged social media to help people.

Early life and education

Jaydeep Pathare was born to a family from Wadule, a remote village in Parner Tehsil of Maharashtra. His father Sambhaji Pathare was then a professor & mother Chanda Pathare was a housewife. He had a very modest upbringing. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Pune.

Career

During his final year at Engineering, Jaydeep was working on a project which eased the way surveys were carried out. His solution was appreciated by the University and it implemented this technology for one of its major community project Samarth Bharat Abhiyaan. Pune Mirror had published an exclusive cover story about this.[4] Later in the year, Jaydeep co-founded a software company in 2009 which worked majorly in software development & web designing for Education & Healthcare domains. Through his leadership and vision, the company saw tremendous growth. He quit this firm as a Director early in 2014 and few months later founded Systele Solutions,[5] which works on innovative IT products.

Jaydeep also worked as founder secretary of the NGO Prayas Youth Forum, uptill January 2013

Social Work

Prayas - Digital Literacy Campaign
Prayas Youth Forum began in 2008 when Jaydeep Pathare & Nikhil Pathare along with their friends decided to reach out to rural & disadvantaged children. They aimed at creating awareness about computers among the underprivileged. Today, hundreds of students are rallying behind them in their cause. What began as a college initiative has grown into an organization.[6][7][8][9]

Gandhi Vichar Yatra

With an objective to create an awareness of teachings of Mahatma Gandhi, Jaydeep along with his 50 friends set out on a yatra from Ahmednagar to Kopargaon, in Maharashtra on 2 October 2011. The travel route was about 100 km & was covered walking.The 50 Youth involved in this yatra visited villages on this 100 km route to create awareness about teachings of Mahatma Gandhiji by arranging a lecture and interacting with villagers. Also these volunteers engaged themselves in visiting schools, meeting youth & talking to them. This event was dedicated to Joy of giving or daan utsav[10]

eduVarta

Students living in remote areas do not have exposure to the outside educational world, skill development initiatives or employment opportunities. eduVarta was an effort to connect these students to their more privileged counterparts in the cities so that they can seek help and guidance from them in shaping their career. Once they subscribe to EduVARTA, the students also got SMS alerts about college notices and announcements, government decisions, course admissions, trainings, workshops, seminars, scholarships and all the information related to exams and results. [11][12]

Drought Help Group

The Maharashtra state was reeling under drought in 2012. Jaydeep and his mentor Ravi Ghate brought together like-minded people from various fields to form 'Drought Help Group' on Facebook. With the help of the platform, the group managed to build a wide network of 1,000 members across the state and succeeded in providing help to many villagers. The group consisted of village coordinators who started posting photos of the drought-affected areas and donors from the urban areas started providing help in the form of water storage tanks, helping the villagers de-silt the rivers and canals so that the water holding capacity can be increased. Success story of using the social media platform to bring immediate relief service to drought-affected people also impressed Facebook. The group, which has now close to 12,000 members, received the prestigious Manthan Award from Digital Empowerment Foundation, New Delhi in December 2013. [13][14][15]

Urban to Rural Mentorship

He formed a group of professionals from pune to mentor rural students. [16]

professionals from pune double up as mentors to rural kids

Social Peace Force

In mid 2014, some derogatory and anti-national messages/images were circulated on Social Media which resulted into Social Tension and Riots in the state of Maharashtra. Jaydeep Pathare along with his friends & mentor Ravi Ghate came forward to form a Youth Group 'Social Peace Force'to stop Anti-Social Messages. This group was appreciated by the Police and higher authorities as it involved citizens to curb digital nuisance. However some people created a controversy and quoted this as a barrier to freedom of expression. Many national and international journals & news agencies took note of this group.[17][18]

Mentor to international students

Pathare has worked as mentor to international students visiting India in exchange programs. He has guided them on youth development projects during their internships.

Personal life

Pathare is fond of photography.[19]
He is married to Nikita Lagad who is also a Computer Engineering graduate.

Awards

Innovative Exhibitor - Annamalai University January 2008
Vodafone Mobile for Good - Vodafone India Foundation December 2010
Manthan Award Social Media for Empowerment December 2013

External links

References

  1. ↑ The next big mobile app |url=http://www.mid-day.com/articles/punekar-develops-what-could-be-the-next-big-mobile-app/15612157
  2. ↑ Technology in Elections |url=http://www.punemirror.in/pune/cover-story/Candidates-tech-on-each-other-to-remain-ahead-in-the-game/articleshow/44348220.cms
  3. ↑ Facebookstories: Bringing drought aid to people in need |url=http://www.facebookstories.com/stories/66630/bringing-drought-aid-to-people-in-need
  4. ↑ One SMS Solution | url=http://www.punemirror.in/news/india/One-Sms-Solution/articleshow/32610224.cms
  5. ↑ Systele Solutions| url=http://www.systelesolutions.com
  6. ↑ Computer basics to rural students|url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/volunteers-take-computer-basics-to-schoolstudents-in-20-villages/743734/
  7. ↑ Mission Education|url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/mission-education-kashibai-nawale-engg-college-students-take-to-villages/449786/
  8. ↑ city-students-bring-scholarships-to-village-kids| url=http://www.thepunekar.com/city-students-bring-scholarships-to-village-kids/2009/09/
  9. ↑ Soul Collective | url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/soul-collective/825270/
  10. ↑ Gandhi Vichar Yatra|url=http://joyofgivingweek.org/events/gandhi-vichar-yatra-2011
  11. ↑ Career Guidance through Mobile| url=http://cityplus.jagran.com/city-news/career-guidance-through-mobile_1398858311.html
  12. ↑ Mobile for Good, Vodafone| url=http://www.mobileforgood.in/about-us/m4g-award/project-visits/eduvarta/
  13. ↑ Drought Help Group | url=http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report-how-a-facebook-group-from-pune-brought-aid-to-drought-affected-maharashtra-1977251
  14. ↑ Facebook - Drought Help Group |url=https://www.facebook.com/groups/droughthelpgroup
  15. ↑ Facebook has a success story from Pune|url=http://www.iamin.in/en/pune/news/facebook-has-success-story-pune-33081
  16. ↑ |url=http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-professionals-from-pune-double-up-as-mentors-to-rural-kids-1898497
  17. ↑ Wall Street Journal Social Peace Force|url=http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2014/06/18/indian-online-vigilantes-to-police-facebook-for-offensive-posts/
  18. ↑ IFEX Social Peace Force|url=https://www.ifex.org/india/2014/07/02/social_media_peace_force/
  19. ↑ Jaydeep Pathare 3rd place winner|url=http://preciouspicsphotocontest.blogspot.in/2011/03/mixed-emotions.html