The Hindu Business Line : Red Hat, CII arm Shiksha in pact to distribute free content to schools

RED Hat, the provider of open source solutions to enterprises, and the CII's Shiksha India Trust have signed an MoU to work together to modernise the Indian education system.

Under the agreement, Red Hat and Shiksha will make the latest in IT and educational content available to educational institutions across India.

Shiksha India is a not-for-profit initiative by CII aimed at bringing in education equity through technology.

It has developed educational content that it is distributing free of cost to schools across India.

The objective of the agreement is to make software and content more affordable within the Indian education system.

Prof Y.S. Rajan, Principal Adviser, CII, said: "India has the second largest education system in the world and there is an urgent need to modernise it using IT. We have, therefore, developed content that we offer free to educational institutions.

"Even the CII-Shiksha content for teaching in schools is based on the open source concept. We will allow capable and motivated teachers to creatively modify the content and give a distinct flavour to suit the local conditions and use it for teaching in other languages."

Mr Javed Tapia, President (Indian Subcontinent), Red Hat, said: "This agreement signifies the growing acceptance of open source in India. We will work with Shiksha India to create a community of Indian educators to create content and software that can be shared freely among educational institutions."

Shiksha empowers schools with technology tools, totally free of cost, and help integrate technology effectively in the teaching-learning process.

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Red Hat, CII arm Shiksha in pact to distribute free content to schools