The
Government of Kerala is galloping towards a revolution in
IT, which brings out a massive change in all spheres of
life of the citizens. Envisaging that deployment of broadband
would make the administration better, speedier and more
transparent through egovernance; would spurt the entrepreneursbig
and small all over the state who would in turn cater to
the demands at national and international levels; develop
IT professionals of international standards through specialized
IT education. As all these steps would augment the quality
of life of citizens in Kerala, the government has taken
a big leap by leveraging broadband services for taking egovernance
to the rural areas. In this backdrop, an integrated project
called the "Akshaya" has been conceived by the
Kerala State IT mission, which is the nodal agency for the
development of IT for bridging the digital divide.
With
the emergence of new generation of technologies, the local
governments, i.e., thelocal, block and gram panchayats
and the district panchayats now have novel technology methods
and resources with which they could interact with their
citizens, constituents and other jurisdictions, and thus
help improve the quality of their life.
In
this background, the local and district administrators of
Malappuram, one of the developing districts of Kerala, took
the initiative and proposed for the deployment of broadband
technology for spreading cent percent eliteracy in the
district, by taking IT to the grass roots, to begin with.
Accordingly, proposals were submitted to the State administrators
who accepted the same, and introduced a unique project in
the district `Malappuram', under the name `Akshaya' `Bridging
the Digital Divide' Project, with the help of the Kerala
IT mission. |
