Implementation plan and methodology:

Identification of thrust areas, gap areas, edge areas, for initiating e-infrastructure development projects

Establishment of a working Group for proposing, initiating, assessing and monitoring of national level programmes and schemes.

10. Institutional Framework:

The institutional framework will consist of organizations and stake holders from Government, industry, academia, including ERNET India, C-DAC, NIXI etc.

Adoption of PPP model involving a multistakeholder approach.

11. Recommendations for XII Plan

11.1 Initiate key programmes and projects in specific areas of internet technologies and proliferation. (a) DIT to liaise with DoT in order to ensure that broadband availability improves and it is economically affordable, in order to foster Internet growth. The implementation of proposed National Optical Fibre Network's (NOFN) connectivity to the Panchayats be dovetailed with various e-Governance initiatives. (b) DIT to take the initiative for integrating efforts of public and private players towards developing a ubiquitous Internet Search Engine; integrating technologies developed in Indian languages. (c) DIT and DoT liaise to integrate the infrastructure of NKN, NOFN, NMEICT, ICT @ Schools in order to create the genesis of a knowledge economy.

11.2 Steps need to be taken to improve the Network Readiness Index. 11.3 Infrastructure for user training and experiential learning methods.

11.4 Infrastructure initiatives with special focus on sectors like: Education, Health, and Agriculture.

11.5 Initiatives for Creation of National Cloud Computing Infrastructure, capacity for its regulation, development of open standards to address interpretability issues, amendments in IT Act keeping in view the challenges and opportunity presented by this new technology creating paradigm shift across the IECT uses and ownership.

11.6 Initiatives for identification of use and application of IECT for productivity enhancement cutting across the various sectors. Exploring the possibility of establishment of National Productivity Network (NPN) to facilitate use of IECT for enhancement of productivity.

11.7 Developing supercomputing capabilities and operating system as well as modelling capabilities; there is also a need to focus on building next generation data centres.

11.8 Initiation of Indigenous active components programme focused on: Transmission, Security, Routing, Threat management, Optical Chain, etc.

11.9 Initiatives for creation of capacity in Specification, Standardization, Certification, and Sanitisation in IECT keeping in view Indian needs for security, and economic stability.

11.10 Creation of Centers of Excellence for the Programmes to focus on: Cryptology, Cryptanalysis, Crypto-design, Algorithm design and development, Hardware realization of VLSI, FPGA, Boards, and systems, and Policy Research to create compatible and contemporary eco-system nationally and internationally.

11.11 Initiatives for creation of sideway network, so that every school going child to have access.

11.12 Steps towards innovative Last mile connectivity for Data Centres and Facility Virtualisation through Cloud-Computing.

11.13 Creation of unmediated environments / ambiance (like Wikis) for content development through participation, and the user will make contribution them selves.

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Summary Targets / Recommendations for e-learning

 Specific manpower development programmes need to be initiated in the frontier areas based on the immediate requirements of the Industry.

 Phase II for the Information Security Education and Awareness (ISEA) project in an integrated fashion and also to institutionalize the mechanism.

 In order to effectively harness the benefits arising out of our demographic advantage, it is essential to create capacity building infrastructure for generation of skilled human resource.

 R&D projects would be initiated in the area of e-learning tools, technologies and pedagogy.

 There is a need to integrate formal and non-formal system of education by introducing the concept of Virtual University or Central University with multiple campuses and blended learning mode.

 An integrated and holistic project for the development of North eastern region through capacity building in the IECT sectors need to be taken up.

 As a part of skill development initiatives, the capacities of DOEACC and C- DAC would be enhanced to generate 10 million skilled manpower by the year 2022 starting from the diploma level right up to doctoral level and in line with the emerging industry/market/society needs. The Central Government scheme for providing financial assistance for setting up of ICT Academy in each State/UT under PPP mode by respective State Governments/UTs along with industry/industry associations.

 Need to bring in an ‘IT Mass Literacy’ movement for inclusion of all the citizens of India (especially the rural and the far flung areas) in the IT revolution. There is a need to create the benchmarks for functional literacy for various segments, design course-ware in multi-lingual format for multi-modal delivery.

 Continuation of SMDP in VLSI Design and related software in XIIth plan with enhanced scope and coverage.

 There is a need launch an integrated and holistic capacity building programme for Electronics Product Design and Manufacturing Technology covering entire layer of human resources development (including faculty development) starting from certificate level upto PG/Doctoral level covering the areas of right from manufacturing/production floor upto product Design and Development as well as applied research.

 Create a pool of skilled labor for the semiconductor design industry.

 Technology Development Projects in mission mode to continue for development of language technologies, which is a complex inter-disciplinary area of research.  A National Localization Research & Resource Centre (NLRRC) to be set up to

focus on the development of software tools, standards, linguistic resources, localization of e-governance services, creating awareness and providing training and consultancy.

 Technologies and components for voice browser in Indian languages would be developed.

 Mobile phone is emerging as an access device, and hence initiatives would be taken for enabling mobile and wireless devices for Indian languages.

 Initiate key programmes and projects in specific areas of internet technologies and proliferation.

 Infrastructure initiatives with special focus on sectors like: Education, Health, and Agriculture.

 Initiatives for Creation of National Cloud Computing Infrastructure, capacity for its regulation, development of open standards to address interpretability issues.  Exploring the possibility of establishment of National Productivity Network

(NPN) to facilitate use of IECT for enhancement of productivity.

 Initiatives for creation of sideway network, so that every school going child to have access.

 Creation of unmediated environments / ambiance (like Wikis) for content development through participation, and the user will make contribution them selves.

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Projected Financial Requirements for XII Plan