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NASSCOM Digital India is a nationwide indigenous oral knowledge and cultural information digitization project. NDI will create a platform for people's participation to digitize Indian people's diversity and oral knowledge heritage. It will collect information from communities that are poorer, less literate and more ecologically sensitive. This collected knowledge will cover areas of agricultural practices, environmental knowledge, biodiversity use and folk medicine, and community identity, arts and crafts.

NDI will create a People of India 'Virtual' Museum that takes advantages of innovative new media implementations to display, preserve, reconstruct, disseminate and store the collections as digital artifacts and databases. This can then be stored on the virtual museum's file server. The digital devices would also be in the form of CD-ROMs and/or web pages showing specific aspects and a general display of the collection, as well as, learning materials for cultural and educational purposes.

Key Highlights of the NDI:
This is NF's first venture that uses ICT for socio-cultural preservation and development.
It will improve common man's access to local and regional knowledge and cultural attributes.
Multimedia technology will help preserve, display and recreate aspects of the region, through the creation of cultural products from music and video CDs to interactive digital exhibitions or 'virtual museum'.
NDI is coordinated by the NASSCOM Foundation using its National Knowledge Network partners and other networks from NGO sector, government, academia and industry. It will draw individual people from diverse locations and communities, residing across the geographic spread of India. Reaching out to as many of the 4000 distinct communities that Anthropological Survey lists as the "People of India", the NDI process will encourage people's participation in the collection, especially of poorer communities.

The previous experience of the NF supported CATAPULT ARTS CARAVAN has shown how local screenings of collected knowledge help build an atmosphere of sharing. The main aim is:

To facilitate NGOs to have easier access to technology – both hardware and software.
To encourage technology companies to donate their products and services for NGOs and non-profits in India.

 For more information please visit http://www.nasscomfoundation.org/NDI

 
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