Oracle to modernise India's free education tech platform DIKSHA
Under this collaboration, Oracle will help the Union education ministry use DIKSHA to provide educational resources to students, teachers and collaborators
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Under this collaboration, Oracle will help the Union education ministry use DIKSHA to provide educational resources to students, teachers and collaborators
The DIKSHA platform, powered by the open-source platform Sunbird from the EkStep Foundation, has been a trailblazer in India's digital education landscape since its inception in 2012. Its seamless adoption of Oracle's advanced cloud services allowed DIKSHA to expand exponentially, now serving over 200 million students and 7 million teachers across all 35 states and union territories of India.
Oracle announced that India's Ministry of Education has chosen Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to modernize the country's national education technology platform 'Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing' (DIKSHA). This migration will help make DIKSHA more accessible and lower its IT costs. The platform supports 1.48 million schools across all of India's 35 states and union territories and is available in 36 Indian languages. Under the multi-year collaboration agreement, OCI will help the Ministry of Education use DIKSHA to provide educational resources to million...
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