Sachin Pilot, the Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology today said that the Government has already approved a project for the establishment of the National Knowledge Network (NKN) at an outlay of Rs. 5990 crore.
While speaking in the Lok Sabha, he said that the project will be implemented by NIC over a period of 10 years.
The objective of the NKN is to interconnect all universities, libraries, laboratories, hospitals and agricultural institutions to share data and resources across the country over the high speed information network, an official press release said.
NKN, which was approved on March 25, 2010, will facilitate creation, acquisition and sharing of knowledge resources among the large participating Institutions in the country. It will bridge the existing knowledge gap in the country. It will help the country evolve as a knowledge society and spur economic activities in the knowledge domain.
The applications that are identified for implementation and delivery on NKN are agriculture, education, health, e-governance and grid computing (high performance computing), the release added.
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Quelle/Source: CIOL, 26.04.2010
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