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Targeting the Remote, the Rural and the Disadvantaged
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Targeting
the Remote, the Rural and the Disadvantaged |
| Project |
Initiator/s |
Target
Population |
Goals |
How IT is
used |
URL/E-mail |
| School
Net |
School
Net |
School children studying in
Kindergarten to Class X
across India |
To
catalyze a focus on non-formal education and vocational courses |
Schoolnet has developed
CD-ROMs and online content products |
www.schoolnetindia.com |
| Seelampur
Project |
Datamation Foundation |
Poor & semi-literate
women from the Muslim community of East Delhi’s slums |
To impart ICT based training
in vocations such as tailoring, quilt-making, food preservation,
embroidery, furniture design and apparel design |
Multimedia CDs focusing on
skills enhancement, women’s empowerment and lifeskills. The CDs will be
shown via the existing cable network |
www.datamationindia.com |
| Udaan |
CARE India |
Girls aged between 10 to 14
of rural areas of Uttar Pradesh |
To enhance learning levels of
young girls who are part of a primary education program |
CD based material is designed
and developed to teach math, science and social learning to students |
www.careindia.org |
| World
Corps |
Chief Minister’s
Empowerment of Youth Program (CMEY) |
Rural educated youth in
Andhra Pradesh |
To provide employment for
underprivileged youth in Internet centres |
IT
literacy is part of the package on entrepreneurship aimed at helping the
youth to set up computer kiosks |
www.worldcorps.org |
| Yuva.com |
Government of Karnataka |
Rural, educated youth in
Karnataka |
To train rural educated who
have passed SSLC, with income less than Rs 24,000 |
IT literacy for running
computer kiosks. |
www.karnataka
information.com |
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