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Do you have the Monday Blues? We’ve got you covered!
In exactly four days we’ll find out if our beloved Eleven and the kids from the town of Hawkins or the evil Vecna from the Upside Down win in Netflix’s Stranger Things series finale.
We are all “running up that hill” to find out on July 1st!
Speaking of Stranger Things, Caleb McLaughlin, the actor who plays Lucas Sinclair, made his first big purchase with his Netflix earnings. Last year, Caleb, who earns $250,000 per episode, bought a Tesla Model X and credits his parents with teaching him fiscal responsibility from his childhood.
Now that he’s an adult, the conversation has turned to investing.
Digital Mental Health Mapping
In India, two in five professionals have experienced increased stress, burnout or anxiety due to the pandemic, according to the LinkedIn Workforce Confidence Index “Mental Health” edition survey at the end of 2020.
In fact, within a week of the first lockdown in 2020, reported cases of mental illness in India rose by 20 per cent, according to a survey by the Psychiatric Society of India. From frontline workers to students, professionals, Covid survivors, young adults and the elderly, everyone was at risk.
As the pandemic accelerated a mental health epidemic that organizations and communities could no longer ignore, a digital disruption gradually began to alter the landscape of mental health care.
Key takeaways:
- Online therapy has been a respite for many, including the ever-hasty breed of emerging entrepreneurs.
- The technology-led digital mental health and healing space provides anonymity and accessibility and is perceived as safer and free from bias than traditional ones.
- The online boom has fueled a proliferation of mental health startups. But for care seekers who to trust remains a big question.
“Digital intervention has made mental health care accessible to everyone and I think help-seeking has become normalized,” says Berlin-based clinical psychologist Drishti Jaisingh, who offers online therapy to individuals and couples, mainly professionals or students in semi-urban and urban areas. Urban areas.
Uolo: You only live once
While many edtech startups were adjusting to the new normal, Uolo had one advantage up his sleeve: He had already partnered with schools across India.
Founded in 2013 by Pallav Pandey, Ankur Pandey and Siddharth Singh, Uolo Technology, or Uolo short for ‘You Only Live Once’, started as a school communication platform by linking up with 150 schools.
Edtech across India:
- Taking advantage of the boom in educational technology during the COVID pandemic, Uolo expanded its partnerships by 700% to reach 5,600 schools by 2022.
- Once a school has incorporated into Uolo, it provides students with K-12 paid mandatory programs in spoken English, advanced math, and coding, among others.
- Uolo aims to reach 25,000 schools by September 2023, incorporating 10 million students.
Artworks in metaverse
Probir Mukerjee noted that financial uncertainties in the primary art market were limiting the scope of the artworks. In January, this led him to found TheProNFT to “bridge the gap between traditional art and the metaverse.”
TheProNFT uses the transparency, flexibility, and security of blockchain and NFTs to digitally trade physical works of art and intends to make art accessible to all.
Key takeaways:
- The startup uses NFT to exchange physical artwork digitally.
- It has listed its collection of NFT paintings on the OpenSea marketplace and intends to give collectors sole ownership of the NFTs.
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