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GRASSROOT
DIGITAL Local Language Content Competition IMPLEMENTING AGENCY Nenasala ICTC, Uva OBJECTIVES Make content available in local language Promote writing habits among the local community Contribute to increasing foot falls and, consequently, income of the Nenasala
CITIZEN CHOICE #2
OUTCOME Is registered with IGNOU to conduct Certificate, Diploma and Associate Degree Programmes Been able to share content and make partnership with various organisations
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his project hopes to increase the volume of contents in local language using the Information and Communication Technology. Consequently, local people will be able to get information in their language according to their need. The community will be involved in the project by submitting content for the competition. Most importantly, therefore, community participation is a key factor for the success of the project. At the end of the project, the Tamil speaking community will be able to collect information in Tamil language about Sri Lanka. Because of the availability of the content in local languages, the Nenasala will start getting many users than ever before. As a result, its income will also increase and the telecentre will be able to sustain itself as well as the project. In the long run, the community will also benefit from the content aggregated through this competition and uploaded on its website. Through this project, they hope to divide the digital gap among the rural community and also contribute towards building the knowledge society combined with ICT empowerment. The project aimed to target and benefit the users of telecentre covered area in the villages. For the implementation of the project the area schools teachers, some educated volunteers, youths gave support to the telecentres.
OUTCOME Benefit the community through access to information and knowledge in local languages Rural people can learn to use ICTs for generating and uploading content Enhance ICT usage within the community
VADALUR Knowledge Centre
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adalur Knowledge Centre is a village knowledge centre located in Vadalur, Cuddalore District, Tamilnadu, India. It is a partner in Grameen Gyan Abhiyan (Mission2007). Every village, a Knowledge Centre) is chaired by Prof. MS Swaminathan. Vadalur Knowledge Centre follows former Indian President, APJ Abdul Kalam’s Providing Urban Amenities in Rural Areas (PURA) model for Rural Prosperity. The project was started to implement and showcase a model village knowledge centre, which is a frontline delivery system in the PURA complexes for providing knowledge connectivity. Vadalur Knowledge Centre wishes to empower the youth to undertake development tasks of the villages and establish rural enterprises to provide large scale employment to the youth of the village. This Village Knowledge Centre is one of the essential components for realising the goal of graduating into a knowledge society and transforming the nation into a developed country before the year 2020. There was a initial struggle to make people understand what is Village Knowledge Centre and how to use ICT to provide services. People initially hesitated and did not believe that doctors could able to speak with them through computers from different town. This initial resistance was overoame by doing lot of offline activities.
egov / www.egovonline.net / august 2010
IMPLEMENTING AGENCY Vadalur Knowledge Centre OBJECTIVES Act as a front line delivery system in Vadalur PURA complex for providing knowledge connectivity Provide skill development for the rural youth, women and farmers. Make use of ICT tools effectively for knowledge dissemination in rural area