We shall create Smart
Villages and Smart Cities through our Digital Villages Program. A Digital
Village is basically a public place where people shall access computers, the
internet and other digital technologies that enable them to gather information,
learn, and communicate with others while they develop essential 21st
century digital skills. Digital Villages shall enable people at the bottom of
the pyramid to use digital technologies to support community, economic,
education, and social development, reduce isolation, bridging the digital
divide, promoting health issues, creating economic opportunities, reaching out
to the poor. Digital villages shall be facilities that offer the community members
the ability to use Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in a
public shared manner. They shall be places where people can meet, talk, share
stories, and learn new skills, access information resources and online courses.
People shall use them as technology centres, business centres, innovation
centres, civic engagement centres, information centres etc.Our topography of services shall include:
Informational services
computer training(basic computer skills, software
development, call center agents training) which shall be either funded with
vouchers or provided for a fee; education, job listing, government schemes and
procedures, news, market prices, computer-aided education (e-content related to
school curriculum), internet browsing, utility bill payment, computer-based
services (digital photography, desktop publishing, data entry), Skype, PayPal,
disability empowerment, land records, photocopy for birth registration, book
publishing, newsletters, promotional materials for businesses, graphic design for politicians/businesses,
web design etc. We shall disseminate generic (non-customized) information, such
as agricultural practice, health, weather forecasts, and contact information.
We shall offer transactional services such as internet access (e-mail and web
browsing), word processing, printing, lamination, binding, scanning,
photocopying, which shall be offered at a fee. Courier services, sending fax,
community health mapping, community resource mapping and biodiversity mapping.
Obtaining loans & insurance, entertainment/ringtones,
e-banking/remittances, e-commerce transaction etc. On the other hand we shall
offer e-government services; this shall be transactional services that involve
local, state or national government, providing land records, submitting
complaints to local officials, and confirming a user’s presence on electoral
rolls. Downloading and submission of forms, status of pending work, land
records, ration cards, government certificates, licenses/permits,
below-poverty-line lists and vehicle registration etc.
Each Digital Village shall target to impact over 2500 beneficiaries. Each
Digital Village shall be converted into a state of the art technology center
that shall spearhead the creation of Innovation Parks, Residential Parks,
Business Parks and Industrial Parks at a village level which shall enable
locals to occupy small portions of land as we reserve large portions of land
for economic use thus solve the emerging global land crisis.
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