The IT@School project, under Department of General
Education, Government of Kerala, India, is the single
largest simultaneous deployment of FOSS based ICT
education in the world. IT@School provides ICT enabled
education to 1.6 million students per year in the
state . It endeavors to enhance the intellectual productivity
of teacher and the curricular comprehension of students.
The work of the project saw 5 million students and
0.2 million teachers empowered in ICT through a network
of dedicated 200 Master Trainers and 5600 IT Co-ordinators.
IT@School is the nodal agency for implementing EDUSAT
network and runs an exclusive channel for education
called 'ViCTERS' (Virtual Classroom Technology on
Edusat for Rural Schools). The project has now associated
with BSNL to provide Internet broad band connectivity
to all high schools in Kerala. . The sucess of the
Project can be visualised by the conduct IT practical
examination in free software for about 15 lakh students,
first of this kind in the world with so much vast
resourceful deployment of free software. The efforts
of Project saw deployment of adequate IT infrastructure
to all schools including computers and other accessories.
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