Objectives:
- Work in coordination with governmental, non-governmental and private agencies
- Work with appropriate agencies, to simplify the rules and regulations of export and import of software and hardware used in ICT
- Create a congenial atmosphere to utilise ICT in every walk of life by raising awareness among users, including women, children, Dalits, ethnic groups, and deprived and disadvantaged communities
- Conduct activities like study, seminar, workshop, exhibition and conference in the ICT sector
- Establish telecentres in rural areas, to uplift rural people
- Implement skill development training and programmes, to alleviate poverty of rural and semi-urban people
- Conduct programmes leading to the institutionalisation of democracy in the country
- Help the government improve its service delivery in rural area
Telecentres can provide solutions to a host of the following development problems:
- Bridging digital divide
- Public access to ICT
- Initiatives relating to health and well-being
- E-commerce
- E-education
- E-democracy
- E-governance
- Preservation of cultural and indigenous knowledge
- Rural and agricultural development
- Improvements in government's service delivery
- Forest management and conservation
- Sustainable development
- Tourism development
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