Odisha Knowledge Corporation Limited (OKCL)

State-wide Network of 500+ Authorized Learning Centers (ALCs) under private-public-partnership with local IT entrepreneurs

1.5 L OS-CIT Certified IT Literate youth

Able monitoring of 4000 ICT computer labs in government and government aided schools throughout the state, which has direct benefit to bridging the digital divide and make computer literacy and computer-aided education possible for 25,00,000 + students across the State of Odisha

As envisaged, it has become a self-sustaining and wealth creating company, with no financial support from the State Government

OKCL has been complying with all statutory obligations as required by a public limited company.

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Odisha Knowledge Corporation Limited (OKCL) was promoted by the Higher Education Department (HED), Government of Odisha (GoO), India and was incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956.

On December 13, 2019 the Higher Education Department (HED), Government of Odisha (GoO) issued a Notification, as per which, the Electronics & Information Technology Department (E&IT) has become the Administrative Department on behalf of Government of Odisha in place of Higher Education Department, for matters concerning OKCL.

OKCL Quality Policy

We at OKCL, are committed to create new paradigms in education, governance, and empowerment of people at large in the context of emerging knowledge-based society and knowledge-based economy.

This shall be achieved through continual improvement by offering education, Governance and empowerment solutions and services to large and diverse population with world-class quality, at very affordable cost, with widest accessibility in just-in-time manner with deeper personalized service experience.

Vision

To develop learning, governance and empowerment systems which are world-class and value-based and are responsive to the individual and social developmental needs of the people by bridging the Digital Divide.

Mission

To offer life-long learning, governance and empowerment services through appropriate partnerships

to a very large population with various diversities : Bigger

with high quality of relevance and applicability in life and work : Better

at an affordable cost : Cheaper

within a shortest possible time : Faster

with a wide accessibility from metros to villages : Wider

in a mass-personalized manner : Deeper personal experience

as it is critical for survival, development and empowerment of individuals, communities and nations.

Goals

To prepare the people for knowledge-based economy and society

To champion the cause of life-long learning with developmental orientation

To stimulate the creation of world-class knowledge resources

To provide universal access to them through Information Technology

To bridge the Digital Divide and resultant Knowledge Divide

Focus

OKCL commenced its business operations in September, 2012 over the entire state of Odisha ( the most natural resourceful state in India admeasuring about 155,707 sq. km. and having the population exceeding 45 million) and in a short span of eight years it has emerged as a high-tech and high-touch initiative focused on design, development and delivery of innovative e-Learning, e-Governance, and e-Empowerment technologies, solutions and services to its ever growing base of millions of customers in public at large, educational institution, Government, and Communities.

Transformative Agenda

Creating a knowledge-led economy and knowledge-based societies in the world is a key to survival and development of people in the emerging knowledge era.

OKCL believes that there exists a great potential in our society to emerge as a knowledge-led economy due to its large and latent talent pool of young population. The challenge exists, however, in transforming its predominantly agrarian or industrial economy into a new knowledge-led economy by developing its talent pool in the right direction.

This transformation can be accomplished by imbibing a culture of life-long learning in the society at large. Life-long learning of such a highly populous and developing society can be sustained only if knowledge resources can be made available and accessible to the masses at affordable costs anytime and anywhere. A pervasive and appropriate use of Information Technology alone can sustain the life-long learning in the Indian context and bring the new actionable knowledge within the reach of all sections of the society as IT and Internet not only provide a transformative medium of dissemination of knowledge but also form a platform for generation of almost 90% of our actionable knowledge resources. Bridging the Digital Divide thus becomes the prime agenda for socio-economic transformation in pole vaulting to the knowledge society and knowledge-led economy. The severe threat of marginalization of the masses emerging from the Digital Divide and resultant Knowledge Divide and moreover the Opportunity Divide can be effectively averted through mass IT Literacy Mission. Only an IT Literate society can enjoy a greater share of global knowledge resources, business opportunities and global job opportunities.

OKCL is an entrepreneurial endeavor to bridge this Digital Divide and the resultant Knowledge Divide and Opportunity Divide by offering actionable knowledge and essential services to the masses for socio-economic transformation.

OKCL is attempting to address various challenges simultaneously through the pervasive and appropriate use of IT and through its unique public-private-community partnership network.

OKCL is thus attempting to help lay the foundations of knowledge society so critical for the survival, development and empowerment of the masses in general and youth in particular.