1. Knowledge Sharing Platform Empowering Communities through regional Content and Services C. Kathiresan C-DAC, Hyderabad, India Session V : e-Content & ICT enabled Services for the future, 17 th March 2015

2. Global Trend in ICT in past 3 decades INFORMATION is wealth (1986-1995) KNOWLEDGE is power (1996-2005) KNOWLEDGE SHARING is wealth & power (2006 – )  ICT facilitates Knowledge sharing effectively 2

3. Need for e-Content in regional languages India: 418 languages; 22 official languages Population - 1.28 billion 302 million internet users in India (as on 31 st Jan, 2015); 2 nd largest in the world & growing fast 952 million mobile users (TRAI, report as on 31 st Jan 2015) –193 million mobile internet users –64% of rural users search content in Local Languages –25% of urban users search content in Local Languages Source: Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI ) & Indian Market Research Bureau (IMRB) 3

4. India Development Gateway (InDG) Initiative of Department of Electronics & Information Technology, MCIT, GOI & implemented by C-DAC since 2006 Key objective: Providing e-content and using ICT based applications for societal empowerment Use the power of ICT to empower the poor and under-served community through provision of regional specific information, knowledge and services in select domains Catalyzes the use of ICT for collaboration and knowledge sharing among development stakeholders Conceptualized, evolved and progressing under the guidance of Professor M S Swaminathan ‘Reaching the Unreached’ 4

5. Vikaspedia Portal www.vikaspedia.gov.in Launched in February 2014 Aimed at creating a collective knowledge repository Focus on social development sectors At present 9 Indian languages (Assamese, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu) and English; To be made in 22 Indian languages by June 2016 At present 6 domains (Agriculture, Health, Education, Energy, Social Welfare and e-Governance) 5

6. Collaborative Content Creation ‘Crowdsourcing Model’ inviting community for active contribution of content in their own language Any individual / volunteer can contribute content, edit / comment on the existing content Contributed content is validated by identified experts and moderated by State Nodal Agency in the respective states. Similar to Wikipedia, but, with more reliable and authentic content in local languages specific to the region 6

7. Information Services Information / Knowledge in local languages ( Success stories, technologies, best practices, Government schemes etc..) Multimedia products e-Learning Courses Value Added Services (e-Vyapar, Ask an Expert etc.) Mobile Apps related to key livelihood sectors 7

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18. Vikaspedia- Current status Hosted e-content & Services  Web pages - 14,000+  Multimedia - Audio 2330 min; Video 13,923 min; Flash 2.5 GB Portal utility (since its launch in Feb ’14)  9.2 million hits/month  2.12 lakh unique visitors/month  26 million page views/month  8405 content volunteers across 10 languages 18

19. Conclusion… 1.Search for need based regional language e-content is increasing owing to mobile internet users 2.The key challenge for Vikaspedia is to ensure the credibility and authenticity of content for the communities 3.Converging Vikaspedia with existing public library system in India will ensure better reachability 4.Crowd sourcing model is effective in meeting the growing demand for region specific information needs in India 19

20. Thank You Kindly visit www.vikaspedia.gov.in for more details 20