NASSCOM Foundation will be hosting its third National Consultation along with its NGO partners. With an over arching theme, ICT for rural Inclusion: Access, Empowerment, Employability, this three day National Consultation aims to discuss and deliberate on enabling rural inclusion, and take stock of the progress made by the various programmes to enhance access, empowerment and employment of the underserved in India. Experts from the industry, academia and grassroots organization will be attending the National Consultation.


Taking forward the theme of ICT for rural Inclusion: Access, Empowerment, Employability: there will be discussions on the role of Mobiles in Development. There will be deliberations on Mobile for Governance services, applications for development and some best in class case studies around some applications. Other sessions will be around a variety of topics which is around skills building for employment using ICT. Focus will be on connecting NGO’s to employability skills training, training for the differently abled, skills imparted for Rural BPO’s and Animation skills training youth and discussions around training for the retail sector.


Apart from these deliberations, there will be training programs for NGO partners on documentation. The objective is to build capacity of the grassroots managers to document their project experience and impacts. The National Consultation will also see participants from corporates who will be presenting their success stories around CSR and the impact that they made through their CSR activities.


NF is developing a web based application that can be used country wide by the NGO partners of the Nasscom Knowledge Network Program. The Software will cover various activities at center so that various reports will be generated by the software. The NKN management system will support two roles: the NGO on the grassroot level who will enter data into the system and ADMIN of the NKN program who will generate reports and statistics dynamically. The NGO will feed in data regarding the centers they are managing which includes students enrolled for different content, their performance during the course and subsequent job status.


This application is believed to provide a NKN Resource section wherein NGOs can download the documents / policies, etc. NASSCOM Foundation will thus be able to get a consolidated view on which content in which centers are being used to impact social development and be able to focus better on the program resources.

Vinod/ITvoir Network