Cisco recently announced the signing of a memorandum of
understanding (MoU) with CSC e-Governance Services India, a private
company established to catalyze and accelerate the delivery of
various e-Governance services through the Common Service Center
(CSC) framework. The purpose of the MoU is to make education and
health care solutions available and to promote social inclusion
through CSCs across India.
The MoU was signed by Shankar Aggarwal, CEO, CSC e Governance
Services India and Naresh Wadhwa, president and country manager,
Cisco India in the presence of John Chambers, chairman and CEO,
Cisco; Wim Elfrink, chief globalization officer and executive vice
president, Cisco Services; R Chandrashekhar, secretary, Department
of Information Technology, government of India; and S R Rao,
additional secretary, Department of Information Technology.
“We believe communities, cities, countries and individual
lives can be transformed by providing access to socially,
economically and environmentally sustainable solutions,” said
John Chambers, chairman and CEO, Cisco.
The education services will use the Cisco Remote Education Centre,
an education platform hosted in the cloud with the ability to
support 30,000 simultaneous classes. Powered by the Cisco WebEx
on-demand collaboration solution, the platform will bring the
teacher, along with e-content, virtually to remote classrooms. It
has been successfully piloted in Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh and
other geographies.
The health care services will be offered through the Cisco
HealthPresence extended reach solution, a desktop-based
telemedicine solution. The solution can also be hosted in a cloud
and support several thousand high-quality video-based telemedicine
sessions simultaneously and has been successfully piloted in India,
Africa, and Latin America.
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