| Name of person |
Name of organisation |
At a Glance |
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| Amitabh Dabla, PhD |
Educational Development Center, Inc. |
The mandate of this report was to examine how the enabling environments promoting the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for primary and secondary education have been successful and supported ... Read |
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| A.S. GUHA, Jt. Director. T.U.Fulzele, Deputy Director |
Regional Services Division, Indira Gandhi National Open University |
The objectives of the paper is to see how Community Information Centres can effectively function as community leaning centers...Read |
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| Guilherme Vaz |
IL & FS, Educational Technology Services |
New Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) provide alternative provisions for access to education without compromising the achievement of comparable goals through different and more appropriate arrangements and means...Read |
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| Robert B. Kozma |
International Consultant Technology in Service of Developing Countries |
National ICT policies will have the greatest impact if they are aligned with other strategic and operational policies...Read |
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| Susha John |
Director. Everonn Systems India Limited |
It is important that the existing economic and digital divide is bridged...Read |
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| K.S. Muralidhar. CEO |
Learnsmart India Pvt. Ltd
(24X7guru.com) |
with the Department of Education, to help in strengthening every child’s academics in their early foundation phase through the use of modern tools and techniques that all schools across India can uniformly use to encourage the students to learn concepts... Read |
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| Dr Harish Kumar. IT Division, Indian Council of Forestry Research & Education |
Sunil Bhaskaran Lecturer and HOD, Department of Computer Science. Army Cadet College Wing. Indian Military Academy |
A national level policy on school education should take into account several keypoints like applicability and accessibility for all, potential, adaptability and the acceptability of the society, capability of the end users at the implementation side, ...Read |
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| Jimmy Kokaji |
International Marketing Specialist. SMART Technologies |
Need for a policy has to be understood within a complex network of national political, economic and socio-cultural systems. The answer must address the implementation, as well as the results, of ICT in India’s schools...Read |
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| Dr. Shabnam Sinha |
Sr. Education Advisor. IL&FS Education and Technology Services Ltd. |
ICT in Education is potential to leverage the knowledge resources in the country through appropriate ICT mechanisms and tools; to obtain and maintain a competitive edge in the world...Read |
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| Michael Gurstein |
Centre for Community Informatics Research, Training and Development |
A detailed account of the policies, practices, wrongdoings and right measures, what else can be done and how it can lead to a better future...Read |
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| Prof Jitendra Shah |
Senior Lecturer, VJTI, Mumbai |
A Policy should be for the majority, by making softwares in local language, giving incentives to state governments for creating the contents in the local language for free distribution, all educational content in schools under Creative Commons license or GPL, All educational software be mandatorily FOSS (Free and Opensource)...Read |
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| Rajeev Singh |
Oracle India Private Ltd., |
A detailed account of how SDH can help materializing the goal of UEE...Read |
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| Rajeev Singh |
Oracle India Private Ltd., |
Challenges of Higher Education Delivery in India lie with its geographical vastness; outdated curriculum; population; faulty delivery system; lack of political will...Read |
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| Shilpi Kedia |
BarrierBreak Pvt Ltd |
The objectives of the national policy should include assistance and education of the persons with disabilities. This should be measured to ensure that the implementation can be documented...Read |
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| Prof Utpal Mullick |
Joint Director, Central Institute of Education Technology |
As the interface between the technology and society is expanding, there is a need for an unambiguous policy statement saying ‘why ICT in schools’....Read |
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| Arivanandan |
Research Scholar, Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras |
This paper gives ideas to improve the condition and quality of rural education through the use of ICTs, especially the computer related technologies. It also provides some suggestions for effective implementation of the national policy for ICT in education in rural areas. ...Read |
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| Dipendra Manocha |
Project Manager. DAISY for All |
Students with print disability are significant part of educable group in the country. These students need their books in Braille or talking book format whcih is prepared through computerised methods, but is given very low priority resulting publishing of the books at the end of the academic session. ...Read |
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| Deepak Bhardwaj |
Director – Corporate Relations. Texas Instruments Inc |
How technologies can be effectively used in classrooms to make studies more enjoyable and enlightening at the same time. ...Read |
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| Arvind Kumar |
General Manager Knowledge Centre, Globus Infocom Ltd. |
New age pedagogy and instructional methods for effective delivery of education, both in the classroom set up and virtually. ...Read |
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| Anjlee Prakash |
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Concerns, challenges and scopes of a National level Policy on ICT in Education and benefits of a consultative process. ...Read |
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IT for Change |
The paper intends to explore some key issues relating to national education in the context of the information society (IS) and considers some of the major critiques against present uses of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Rather than only proposing a revised curriculum for ICT teaching to ameliorate these shortcomings, the paper instead outlined a framework for how ICTs can play a role in creating a more equitable education system and suggest some policies that may emerge from such a framework. ...Read |
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| Dr.(Mrs.) Sharad Sinha |
RIE-NCERT , Ajmer |
The paper is about the policy requirements for ICT in education, related issues, all of which premised on the positive relationship between ICT and social and economic development as well as on the necessary relationship between ICT and learning and teaching. In outlining these relationships, and arguing that a systemic approach using policy as the mechanism to systematize it is the most logical route to follow, the paper further noted a range of critical issues that need to be addressed. Though no exhaustive, it gives a good sense of the issues to confront when developing integrated ICT in education policy. ...Read |
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| Pandav Nayak |
Indira Gandhi National Open University |
ICT’s role in any developing country, more focally in India’s schools, has got to be more than mere transmission of information. Few can outmatch ICT’s role in contributions to effective ‘inclusive growth’ especially in the context of educating the society at the school stage. ...Read |
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| N. Thiagarajan |
Holy Cross Matriculation Higher Secondary School |
A complete education will improve the standard of life among common population. Since Computer is a powerful tool and common sense is the only basic requirement, the dream to bring quality in life can be achieved through education with the help of ICT. ...Read |
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| M K Senthil Kumar |
Development Azim Premji Foundation |
The paper does a Situation analysis of the Education Perspectives of Technology in India, Long term purpose of Technology in Education, ICT in Future Schools of India. The author has also given some Suggestions for ICT Policy for Education, Guidelines Directions for implementation of the policy and has given some insights regarding the Way forward. ...Read |
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| Punam Medh |
iDesign Skills |
ICT is an initiative designed to deliver educational content to school children throughout the social strata and especially in remote rural areas, using various technology based devices ...Read |
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| P.S.Narotra |
Senior Director, Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology |
One of the major reasons for introducing e - learning is to better prepare for a knowledge-based economy. ...Read |
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| Shuchi Grover |
Educational Technologist, Bangalore |
The NCERT’s National Curriculum Framework 2005 (NCF 2005) has spawned
much literature, debate and discussion, especially in the arena of constructivism
– its validity in the context of the Indian classroom, ...Read |
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| Venkatesh Hariharan |
Head - Open Source Affairs, Red Hat India Pvt. Ltd. |
ComputeRs have emerged as the Fourth R of education ...Read |
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| Mr V K Bhatia, Mr. S N Goswami, Mr. B S Bhatia, Ms. Sunetra Deshpande |
Media Lab Asia |
The following points were recommended for implementation in future by various stakeholders namely IGNOU, PSSCIVE, Bhopal, NIOS, Media Lab Asia & other NGO’s. ...Read
Vocationalisation of School Education: A Backgrounder
Annexure I,
Annexure II,
Annexure III,
Annexure IV,
Annexure V,
Annexure VI
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