New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) in collaboration with Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Govt. of India, introduces an IT Mass Literacy Programme. This IT Literacy programme is headed by the Vice Chancellor of IGNOU, Prof V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai as chairman.
The IT group has started its work by introducing a website on IT Mass Literacy Programme. One can find the link to the website on the IGNOU’s official website: http://www.ignou.ac.in/. This newly launched website is envisioned to be a complete portal on the Programme for certification and feedback. This website can even determine if a person is an e-literate or not. However, the key objective of this website is to give a common platform to all institutes/universities/corporates/colleges offering IT, to generate statistics about IT literates.
Sources said that as per the Letter No. 1(7)/2010-HRD from the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Department of Information Technology (Human Resource Development Division), Government of India and the recommendations of the Standing Committee of Parliament for Department of IT, the website on IT Mass Literacy has been launched to maintain the data with regard to literacy rate in computers.
In addition, there are numerous people who do not have any certification but are capable to work with IT facilities at basic level for information interchange or for their knowledge enhancement. Therefore, it became an impulsive need to define some standards of IT education, so that a person bearing specific knowledge with some experience in IT applications could be called a certified IT professional for basic level. And this website will definitely make it easy, with the help of people’s university, IGNOU.
