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Akshaya Project in Kerala

1. AKSHAYA PROJECT

2. 1 ST Started in Malappuram District Malappuram is said to be India’s 1 st E-literate District.

3. Launch of Akshaya project

4. AIM Government constituted the state information technology mission for achieving transparency and speed in administration so as to make it more responsive to the needs of the people and for grass roots level application of information technology as part of social engineering for development.

5. Specific Objectives 100% e-literacy Delivering of G2C Services Single window for all services Friendly Face of Government Empowering citizen through ICT

6. E- LITERACY evolved in 2002 with the mandate to train one member in each of the of 6.4 million families e-Literate. Survey was conducted to identify the beneficiaries • Total Trained – 3.5 million

7. This public private initiative was undertaken keeping four ambitious targets in mind: To provide basic functional skills (e – literacy) to at least one member of every family in the state To ensure universal access to various ICT tools and other technologies To provide relevant content to the local population in the native language To establish community access centres, which could be eventually developed as centres to provide integrated e – governance services.

8. At a more macro level, one could delineate an attempt to integrate two larger goals through the project, namely mass socio – economic development through increased computer and internet access while simultaneously ensuring financial viability via market driven entrepreneurship.

9. Akshaya evolving as CSC(KIOSK) Single window for All Services on 2 July 2009 through a Govt Order • Institutional Mechanism to Hand hold AKSHAYA.

10. e-Learning e-learning is in collaboration with INTEL and IGNOU. Insight - is one of the unique e-learning programs for visually challenged.

11. Major Outcomes Digital empowerment in the state One stop shop for citizen services Touched the lives of more than 75% of population Generation of 15000+ employment opportunities Women Empowerment -55% of Akshaya centres are run by them.