Mercredi 10 Mars 2010 14:27
One of the two videos of the study visit of the African Delegates organised by CTA in the Indian provinces of Kerala, Karnataka, West Bengal and Delhi from 29 November 2009 to 8 December.
Supported by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), the ground-breaking initiative, whose theme is “Social and Economic Development using Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs)”, aimed at enhancing participants’ knowledge on how India has harnessed ICT to promote its overall growth.
The high-level African delegation, which is on its last leg of its India study visit, on Monday participated in seminar which deliberated upon the role of government in ICT for development.
The last day of the visit to India by a high-level Africa delegation concluded in New Delhi on December 8, 2009. The delegation not only acquired a first hand knowledge about ICT initiatives put in place by various provincial governments by visiting CSCs in the Indian provinces of Kerala, Karnataka and West Bengal, but also had an opportunity to interact with a wide range of policy makers, civil society leaders and officials of public and private enterprises, including those who spearhead the telecentre movement in the country.
The African delegation had a rare opportunity of listening to a foremost disaster management expert on Sunday, when Prof N Vinod Chandra Menon, member of India’s statutory National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) shared his views on exploiting advances in ICT for disaster communication.
Prof. Menon informed that the delegation that NDMA is proposing to use CSCs, which are being set up in different provinces in the country, for spreading disaster preparedness and emergency response awareness among the communities.
are very important, he said adding with the increasing profusion of ICT will prove to be a boon in the fight against natural disasters and reducing casualties in the decades to come, Prof. Menon said.