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About DKC (Digital Knowledge Centre)
A digital repository of best digital content for development interventions in India and South Asia in audio-visual format. These digital interventions area are to be selected from as many intervening areas as feasible. Documentation in print in case study book format shall be the other component of the project.The need for a digital repository has arisen due to the following:
- As a digital reference platform for digital content practice replication, deployment
- As a knowledge reference platform
- As a research platform
- As a governance reference platform
- As a digital library reference for digital content practices
The Audio-Visual documentation of best practices shall have the following target groups:
- ICT practitioners and promoters
- ICT experts
- Policy makers and implementers
- ICT for Development civil society agencies
- CSR wings of private agencies
- Academic Institutions
- Individual ICT experts / pioneers / researchers
Objectives of DKC
- To serve national requirement of an information and knowledge repository on ICT and content applications addressing key development and governance challenges in key sectors like education, health, livelihood, entrepreneurship and so on;
- To serve as a policy referential platform to choose best ICT provisions in meeting common man needs
- To serve as research platform for academics and practitioners in further examination of ICT innovations as problem solving applications.
Current Digital Resource Scenario
There are emerging digital resource repositories in India & South Asia both at public and private domain;
- This emergence is notable in the cultural domain (e.g. Kalasampada, Digital Library- Resource for Indian Cultural Heritage (DL-RICH) project sponsored by the Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology] ; in governance domain (e.g., Governance Knowledge Centre project of Dept. of Administrative Reforms) ; the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library on traditional medicine practices of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare is another notable; the Digital Library project of Bangladesh is another at the behest of the Country’s Planning Commission. These resources are at public level
- Educational and research institutions like IGNOU, Delhi University, India National Science Academy are also taking lead in creating education digital repository like eGyankosh from IGNOU; Aligarh Muslim University has undertaken a project to digitise and preserve about 16,000 manuscripts and 5,000 rare books in different languages
- In private domain or in civil society domain there is no such digital repository. Few emerging trends are the India water portal created by Arghyam (a not-for-profit) supported by National Knowledge Commission.
- In private sector domain, mention can be made of Indmedica by Ind Medica Pvt. Ltd of Punjab providing a resource base of medical practitioners and share information.
- However, as far as such repository is concerned in the development domain to address key development and governance challenges using ICT there is hardly any such in India.
Areas of Best Practices to Be Covered
- Community Broadcasting
- e-Business
- e-Culture & Entertainment
- e-Education
- e-Enterprise & Livelihood
- e-Government
- e-Health
- e-Learning
- e-Localisation
- e-News
- e-Science & Environment
- m-Content
- Any other content applications having development impact
Selection of Best Practices
The selection of practices shall be from both winning, nominees of award platforms, awarding events conducted by Government agencies like DIT, DARPG and leading media players like Dataquest, Manthan Awards, mBillionth Awards etc, and others relevant best practices recognition from pool of resources across South Asian countries and India. Selection will be eventually from non-award platforms also.
Scope of Work
The following shall be considered as selection criteria of content applications and projects:
- Replication,
- Sustainability,
- Cost effectiveness,
- Speed of service delivery,
- Participation,
- Transparency & accountability
- Business Model
- Community participation
- Linkages with existing schemes for citizens
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