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Nirmala Shankaran
Co-Founder, Hey Math! talks about a different curriculum which is intended to provide students access to the best teaching methodology by collaborating with high performing Mathematics system
Interviews
Intellectual Capital Needs Actual Investing : N K Sinha, Joint Secretary, Bureau of Distance Learning and Scholorships, Government of India
Standardisation of content is our challenge. It has to be in the Wiki kind of approach. Leave it on the web in a tentative format, and let all the experts do the value addition till it is stabilised. The community of intellectuals should take up the responsibility
Impacting Agriculture : N K Das, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture
The National Agriculture Policy lays emphasis on the use of Information Technology for achieving a more rapid development of Agriculture in India. In pursuance thereof, the Department of Agriculture and Cooperation(DAC) has taken up an initiative to prepare National e-Governance Plan in Agriculture (NeGP-A) with a view to promote focused and integrated implementation of
e-Governance activities in Agriculture. N K Das, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture speaks to egov magazine about the various ICT programmes being implemented under the aegis of the Department of Agriculture and Cooperation.
A Leap Forward to e-Readiness – e-Governance Scenario in Haryana : V S Kundu,, Managing Director, Haryana State Electronics Development Corporation Ltd.
“To facilitate the users/citizens in the rural areas, steps are being taken to immediately start escorting services through CSCs for delivery of various services being given by district administration or line departments from the district headquarters, so that the villagers could avoid the harassment of traveling to district headquarters several times for services like getting an income certificate, caste certificate, domicile certificate and so forth”, informs V S Kundu, Managing Director, Haryana State Electronics Development Corporation Ltd., and Special Secretary, IT, Government of Haryana, to egov magazine.
Delivering Unified Security Architecture : Bhaskar Bakthavatsalu, Country Sales Manager, Check Point, India and SAARC Region
Because a cyber attack on a public sector organisation has the potential to have a much broader impact, secu
Ushering IT Revolution in Haryana : Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Hon
“To promote e-Governance and improve delivery of citizen services using ICT state government has taken several initiatives, such as setting up of the State Wide Area Network and establishing Citizen Service Centers in more than 1100 villages. Besides this, government has directed all departments to prepare their IT plans with particular emphasis on automation of citizen services”, says Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Hon
Kenya’s University of Nairobi-Keen on ICT : Dr Ndunge D. Kyalo, Kenya’s university, Kenya
Tell us a bit about the ICT programme(s) in the University. The e-Learning division is in the same campus which houses the School of Continuing and Distance Education. Our e-Learning initiative is something that is intrinsic part of our University. We have some e-Learning platforms that were
Learning by Doing : Madhuri Parti, Kothari International School
How do you see the usages of ICTs in teaching and learning processes?
Until and unless we as schools and as teachers have our role clear in ICTs, it may seem like we are just the facilitators, guides, and the outsiders. It is very important to understand how do we watch and how much we see from outside!
