Benefits

Broadly, UP ME is meant to rationalise and thereby uplift the use of digital screen media by individuals and families.

The benefits of UP ME include:

• Builds awareness of many standard guidelines, rules and tips for Digital Wellness
• Aids development of a disciplined approach to use of screen media.
• Through the rules, it aims to safeguard health and prevent many serious physical, mental and social disorders.
• Enables additiontour the guide/beneficiary’s own rules to improve upon available rules and achieve better results.
• Builds capacity of doctors and counselors to guide clients, and mentors like teachers/social activists to guide others.
• Facilitates guidance to parents and youngsters by experts in child health and other media mentors.
• Gives a blueprint for role-modelling by elders in the family.
• Allows consideration of personal and family value systems in development of media use plan.
• Facilitates creation of a common plan for the entire family, as well as customised plans for each individual depending on age and needs.
• Overall, facilitates provisioning for more off-screen time, helping mental and physical development, family bonding and social skills.
• Can be easily shared, to safeguard/benefit others like friends, neighbours, clients and others in need of such discipline/help.
• If used religiously, UP ME can ultimately lead to a healthy and happy future for you, and spread of the same to your near and dear ones and clients.

Main features of UP ME

1. Quick and easy creation of standard and customised plans for media usage by individuals and families.
2. Plans usable as templates to provide specific points of guidance to parents and youth.
3. Ease of adding rules in custom plans, to augment benefits to users.
4. Printing, and easy transmission of the created plans by WhatsApp and Email.
5. Uploading letterhead and printing of the plans by members of IAP on their letterhead.
6. IAP members and media mentors like teachers and social workers can save and use plans as templates.
7. Screeners for several common health conditions associated with excessive or indiscriminate use of screen media.
8. For download and printing, beautiful posters encouraging lesser and rational use of screen media.
9. Easy sharing of the app with other people intended to benefit from it.
10. Availability in several Indian languages.
11. Educational videos.
12. Links to relevant news items directly or indirectly related with Digital Wellness.