it@school
IT@School is a project of Department of General Education, Government of Kerala, setup in 2001, to foster the IT education in schools and which on a longer term would facilitate ICT enabled education in the state.
The Project is now been implemented from 5th to 12th Standards in the state covering as many as 8000 schools. An estimated 50 lakhs students and 2 lakhs teachers are now part of this project who have benefited from ICT enabled education. Today, the Project is on the verge of completing its 10th year of operation and it has a strong network of 160 Master Trainers and 5600 School IT Co-ordinators statewide, who are school teachers themselves. The Project functions on Free Software platform since it provides the freedom to an individual to study, copy, modify and re-distribute any content, a process which would ultimately benefit the whole society. The Project aims to empower all the school teachers in the state on ICT tools, making them IT champions and also to implement ICT enabled learning system for all subjects. Apart from infrastructure deployment to schools, the Project also ensures the proper maintenance of hardware equipments at schools through Hardware Clinics and reporting of faulty machines through the webportal which would then be rectified. Being the nodal agency of General Education department for e-governance, almost all the functions of the department has been automated by the Project
