Kerala set to launch total digital literacy drive
TRIVANDRUM: Kerala is all set to launch a massive total digital literacy campaign ensuring benefits of an inclusive knowledge-based society reaches down to the grassroots level.
Powered by Kerala State IT Mission, “I am Also Digital” will be in a participatory model with resource persons drawn from the society itself down to the municipal ward level.
“It aims at building capacity to enjoy benefits of digital technology including online services and educating people about cybersecurity,” an official release said on Friday.
“The campaign will seek to create public awareness about the e-governance and equip them to make use of various digital platforms offering a wide array of services.”
Educating people on the growing significance of social media and equip them to guard against their misuse for mischievous purposes like spreading fake news will be part of it.
The project will be pilot-launched in the city soon, starting with the selection of 50 master trainees having a sound basic knowledge of handling online IT tools.
They will instruct five trainers from each of the 100 wards of the city, who will carry out the mission in their locality.
Those who are wishing to partner with the campaign as master trainees need to have basic knowledge of digital technology, internet and its possibility, new media and cybersecurity, handling online financial services, use of online platforms on which the government services being delivered online and use of Malayalam as a medium on computer and mobile handsets.
People from all walks of life including government servants, college students and socially concerned individuals associated with organisations in the public domain can come forward as trainees of the campaign.
The master trainees of the programme will be awarded certificates on completion of their training, jointly by IT Mission and State Literacy Mission, to acknowledge their service.
Recently, Kerala received the honour of India’s best wellness destination at the Outlook Traveller Awards 2020. The Kerala tourism board described it as a robust validation of the state’s authentic Ayurveda and other traditional systems of “holistic healing.”
Officials received the award from the former lawmaker, columnist and author Jay Panda at a function in New Delhi last week.
Tourism minister Kadakampally Surendran said the state provides a range of other relaxing therapies that rejuvenate people tired of monotonous city life. The award is a huge recognition that will further bolster the state’s reputation as a destination for holistic healing,” he said.