Information about India

• Meta-survey on the Use of Technologies in Education in Asia and the Pacific 2003-2004
• ICT Policies - summaries and links to actual policy papers
• ICT use in primary and secondary education
• Examples of ICT use in non-formal education
• ICT for special needs education
• ICT in development programmes
• Teacher training programmes
• Performance indicators workshop presentation
• Developing and Using Indicators of ICT Use in Education: A Situational Analysis

Projects

• Training and Professional Development of Teachers and Other Facilitators for Effective Use of ICTs in Improving Teaching and Learning
• ICTs for the Promotion of Literacy, especially in E-9 Countries

External links

• Educational Software Evaluation database

  This initiative gathered more than 250 evaluations of educational software being used in Australia , Indonesia , India , Malaysia , Philippines and Thailand. The evaluated software is available in a number of languages, focuses on a wide range of topics and is based on diverse pedagogical approaches.

• Links on ICT in NFE and development programmes - Here you will find a variety of links to different programes. Do a search for India (ctrl+F) to find relevant links
• MoE's list of Open Universities in India
• Project in a nutshell: Computer Software Development for Literacy/Post-Literacy Learning and Training for Literacy Teachers
  Implemented by the State Resource Centre, Rajasthan Adult Education Association, Jaipur India
• Learning Technology for a Better Life: Taking Literacy to the Theshold of ICT Implemented by the State Resource Centre, Rajasthan Adult Education Association, Jaipur India (National Literacy Mission)
• Skills Development through Distance Education
  Providing information on the various aspects of delivering skills training by open and distance learning, this book also looks at ways of teaching practical skills. Case studies are included from Africa, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, India and the United Kingdom, as well as information and advice on increasing access to technical and vocational education using open and distance learning.
• SchoolNet India.com 
  SchoolNet India is a social initiative to propagate lifelong learning. Schoolnet primarily aims at enhancing the quality and delivery of education across the learner spectrum and learning segments, through Networked LearningTM. While the Schoolnet project has been developed indigenously, it has actively sought and received inputs from a variety of international agencies and multilateral institutions in order to incorporate the best practices globally.
• ENO-Environment Online
  ENO-Environment Online is a global virtual school where environmental data is shared with both participants and the global community. ENO unites schools to learn interactively together in spite of location, cultural differences or levels of prosperity. There are 73 ENO schools in 43 countries, many of them in developing countries - in the Asia-Pacific area, there are two in Australia, one in China, four in India and one in New Zealand. Four different environmental themes are studied within a school year (Social, Natural and Cultural Environment and Sustainable Development), with a special curriculum with weekly tasks. Students from participating schools study together, submit data from their local environments and analyse it together, using the database, the discussion forum, videochats for online lessons and e pals for social connections
• Projects integrating ICTs in primary and secondary education

• Bicycles Bring Connectivity in Rural West Bengal  

  In an effort to spread the telecom revolution to the 700 million rural communities of India, a project from the non-profit Grameen Sanchar Seva Organization (GRASSO) sees young men riding out on bicycles, carrying mobile phones equipped with CDMA Wireless Local Loop into 5,000 West Bengal villages. These men get to keep 25 percent of profits from all calls made while bringing telephone services to villages for the first time.

• The M S Research Foundation Information Village Research Project 

  The Information Village Research Project has connected ten villages near Pondicherry in southern India by a hybrid of wired and wireless network, consisting of PCs, telephones, radio devices and email connectivity through telephone lines. Enabling the villagers to access necessary information to improve their lives, the project involves local volunteers who gather information, put the information on an Intranet and provide access through nodes in the villages.

• Government CIC Project in North-East India
  Under this project CICs are in the process of being set up in schools, colleges and government buildings. In order to ensure uninterrupted communication, the Centres are connected through a satellite based computer communication network. Each CIC is equipped with a VSAT, computer systems, printers and networking equipment. Many of the CICs receive over a 100 visitors every week who use e-mail facilities, word processing applications, browse the Web, attend Training sessions and generally improve their familiarity with computers and awareness of IT.

• Community - Government Partnerships and Open Source Technology for Low Cost IT Access in India
  This case study reviews the evidence from the experience of the Goa Schools computers project (GSCP) in using an open-source technology solution - Linux Terminal Server - based on a community-government partnership and also private sector involvement to substantially reduce the cost of putting computers in schools in the state of Goa. The study hails the school based telecentre as a model of sustainability for Internet access, while cautioning against the use of open-source and recycled equipment in every setting. The conclusion provides some policy recommendations for implementing similar low cost projects to installing computers in schools.

• All India Co-ordinated Programme (AICP)
  In an effort to achieve the aim of "IT FOR ALL BY 2008", AICP is setting up Multipurpose Information Technology Centres throughout the rural and tribal areas of India, supported by the government's Department of Electronics (DOE) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST). So far, over 2300 training centers in 24 states have been set up, offering a wide variety of training and servicing modules in Indian languages, and nurturing entrepreneurship in electronics and IT.

• FORCE, Foundation for Computer Education
  FORCE collects old and unused computers from business organizations, tests and repairs them, and then redistributes them to schools and colleges. They accept all models of computers, as well as peripherals and hard drives. The voluntary agency seeks financial support from residents of the United States who have an Indian heritage. Based in Bombay, FORCE is the only project of its kind in India.