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Community Service Center
The Community Information Centre (CSC) Project was undertaken in the North Eastern region comprising the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura in April 2000. The basic thrust is to put the region on the IT map of the world. This region lacks proper communication infrastructure due to difficult terrain. This raises the cost of setting up and maintaining equipment in the region. In such a situation, communication among villages or communities is a tedious process. The CSC Project was setup to overcome this problem and provide many IT-related facilities and
services to the people. These services can be categorized as follows:
Reaching the Unreached:
Most towns and villages in North Eastern India are situated in difficult terrain.CSCs offer them instant internet access and facilities for entertainment via NICNET. Visitors also utilize the internet facilities to browse for information and tele-consult doctors for serious situations. Sports enthusiasts were overjoyed by the live broadcast of the cricket tour of India to Pakistan and other such games. The viewer response in terms of turnout was tremendous.
Bridging the Digital Divide:
Today, it is imperative to be IT literate for employability in many organizations.IT education and certification from Department of Electronics Accreditation of Computer Courses (DOEACC),Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is being provided by many CSCs. Providing both education and certification, is a two-pronged approach aimed at raising the IT knowledge of the youth,children, even the elderly, while providing certification for the courses from the organizations that set the standards for the IT industry in the entire country.
Access to Government Information:
People need information in the public domain from time to time for various purposes and in this regard, they need to access government information banks. Remoteness from the distribution center of such information and lack of communication facilities make it doubly difficult for citizens to achieve this purpose. Sensing the seriousness of the problem, most government departments have set up their own websites that contain detailed information about all the forms thatneed to be filled up.
Citizen Centric Applications:
E-governance offers the facility of applying online for documents from a government office from the comfort of one's home or a cyber-cafe and now they are available at CSCs.The government has already created the e-governance applications for many departments. Since the volume of paper work carried out as part of administrative activities is huge, total e-governance is likely to take a long time. Meanwhile, many state governments have already begun implementing this citizenfriendlymeasures in piecemeal fashion.
Common platform for knowledge sharing:
CSCs provide a forum for people of various communities operating from far flung locations to come together to exchange knowledge and information that can be of greater utility to the people of North Eastern region. This is a win-win situation for both receiver and provider of knowledge and results in greater benefit of society at large.Important Links
*click here to visit the Official CSC Website
