Interviews
State Data Centre: Backbone for Service Delivery : S.P. Singh, Senior Director, Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and IT, Government of India
S P Singh has been with Department of Information Technology for over 25 years and held various positions. S.P. Singh has been involved in the preparation of National e-Governance Plan. He is also responsible for e-Governance implementation in Urban Local Bodies (Municipalities), Agriculture sector and e-Procurement which are very large and ambitious initiatives of the Government of India.
0% illiterates by 2010! : Keshab Majumdar, Minister, School Education, Government of Tripura
While the all India teacher student ratio is 40:1, that too is probably for the SSA (Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan), in our state it is 30:1. Our goal is to bring it down further to 20:1.
Maximum Coverage Of CAL : Deepak chauhan, MIS Officer, Government of Gujarat
Any innovative activity needs some time for the end users to conceive and accept. Similarly, the main challenge was the acceptance of the innovative activity. A strong dedicated team at State and down the line are the strong points for successful implementation of innovative programmes.
Top Educationists Just A Click Away – Online Academy : Monica Malhotra Kandhari, Director, MBD Alchemie
MBD has a quality and name to keep. Every time we are bringing out a product, we think a lot about the quality. Content, which is the bread and butter of e-Learning, is everybody
Policy And Framework For Engagement – Need Further : Sonjib Mukharjee, CEO, Metalearn
Most important is to know the value of focus. We recently rolled out a programme in Sweden where restructuring the whole assessment system happened faster than we thought, since the partners knew well in advance what they needed and we could focus on the matter at hand
More ICT = Better Results? : N. Ravi Shanker, Jt. Secretary & Group Coordinator E-Infrastructure/E-Learning Group
ICT in schools would be such that, were there are a number of facilities lacking, if you are able to deploy ICT, you may be able to perhaps, permeate better into the minds of the students with the use of ICT.
