Oracle Cloud Infrastructure announced on August 2 that the Ministry of Education has chosen it to revamp the Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing (DIKSHA) national education technology platform. The move will help DIKSHA become more accessible and cut its IT expenses.
Shailender Kumar, senior vice-president and regional managing director, Oracle India and NetSuite Asia Pacific and Japan, stated during a briefing held today, “We have transitioned and migrated DIKSHA onto Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.”
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure will assist the ministry in using DIKSHA to make educational resources available to millions more students, teachers, and collaborators around the nation as part of the seven-year collaboration agreement.
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Since it recently switched to OCI, DIKSHA has improved its scalability, security, cost-effectiveness, and flexibility to adapt to demand-based capacity, according to the press release. This has allowed it to produce more material and serve more students and teachers as the platform grows.
Indu Kumar, head of department, ICT and Training, Central Institute of Educational Technology (CIET), Ministry of Education, said, “We need to embrace modern tools and technology to make education more easily available and securely accessible to everyone.”
One of India’s largest and most successful Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) initiatives, DIKSHA was created for school education and foundational learning courses. Through the use of the open-source Sunbird platform, created by the EkStep Foundation, DIKSHA assists teachers in promoting inclusive learning for communities that are underprivileged and children with disabilities across the nation.
More than 11,000 contributors’ content is accessed by more than 200 million students and 7 million teachers from public and private institutions on the platform.
