Transcript Rama Hariharan-eNRICH Presentation

National Informatics
Centre
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A Government of India organization
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Promoting usage of IT in India since 1975
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Engaged in consultancy, network services including
video-conferencing,
software
development
and
implementation support
Has presence across the country
Addresses computing & communication needs of all
layers of Indian Administrative set up
NIC - Efforts in Rural
Informatics
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Has been providing a number of state-of-the-art
software solutions to address the needs of the
government and citizens in Rural Development Domain
Supported WARANA project in Kolhapur District of
Maharashtra (Village Level)
Implementing Community Information Centre (CIC)
project in North Eastern States of India (Block Level)
“Recall the face of the poorest and the
weakest man whom you have seen and
ask yourself, if the steps you
contemplate are going to be of any use
to him. Will he gain anything by it?
Will it restore to him control over his
own life and destiny?”
Welcome
to
… Mahatma Gandhi
eNRICH …
putting ICTs into the hands of the poor
Challenges in the emerging
networked knowledge society
Problems in Web Site development
 Time consuming.
 Need special skills to modify, revise and upload
information.
 Solutions are more information retrieval
oriented and less effective in providing
facilities for community communication.
Unfulfilled Community needs
• Information categorization in the net may not be
relevant.
• Information content in local language is lacking
• Illiteracy is a major barrier
• Provisions for active community participation are
lacking
• Communication needs within and between
communities are not met.
• Research data on access habits is not available
Difficulties in Information Search
• Time consuming
• Surfing is costly by access time
• Searching skills are necessary
• Relevancy and authenticity cannot be judged immediately
UNESCO’s Strategy
• To produce a generic browser for usage by Community
Multimedia Centers (CMCs) that
 Is a one stop access & delivery mechanism for communities
 Is customizable by individual CMCs in terms of local language
and content
 Encourages local content production through active community
participation
 Allows easy access to relevant and authenticated information
 Enables efficient communication within and among CMCs
eNRICH
a joint effort by UNESCO & NIC
Reaching out to the unreached through
 Customizable multilingual interface to suit specific local needs
 Easy to organize information resources and services
 Electronic community bulletin boards and community opinion
polls
 Local content and messages posted by community using text, audio
and video
 Quick links to email, chat and messaging services
 Learn useful and marketable skills using interactive multi-media
content
 Built-in research to analyze community needs and prefernces
eNRICH
Consists of two main components:
 Community Browser – the portal interface that will be used by
the community members
 Desk Manager– a site administration and analysis tool for site
Manager and researchers
The Guiding Star
• eNRICH is delivered with a pre-built information
categorization that has been arrived at after an
exhaustive study of the information needs of the
underprivileged sections of the society
• eNRICH also comes packaged with URLs that
have been identified as relevant & authentic vis-àvis the identified information needs
Thank You
National Informatics Centre
Department of Information Technology
Ministry of Communications & Information Technology
Government of India