ViCTERS education channel

ject 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

IT@School is the nodal agency for implementing EDUSAT network and runs an exclusive channel for education called ViCTERS (Virtual Classroom Technology on Edusat for Rural Schools), which is now aired for 17 hours a day- from 6am to 11pm. The project has now associated with BSNL to provide Internet broad band connectivity to all high schools in Kerala. . The success of the Project can be visualised by the conduct IT practical examination in free software for about 4 million students, first of this kind in the world with so much vast resourceful deployment of free software. The efforts of Project saw deployment of adequate IT infrastructure to all schools including computers and other accessories. Today, the Project is termed as the "Single largest simultaneous deployment of FOSS based ICT education in the world."