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When compared to the western countries, India has a unique advantage in terms of its working population. India has one of the youngest populations in the world with a median age of 25. According to the growth projections by the United Nations Population Division, it is predicted that India will have the largest working population in the age group of 15 to 64 in the next 30 years. On the contrary, developed countries are expected to face a severe shortage of working age population during the same period. It is also expected that the ageing economy phenomena will globally create a skilled manpower shortage of about 56.7 million by 2020. Amongst all the countries India has the unique advantage of not only fulfilling its internal demand of skilled manpower, but also has the potential to become a global reservoir of skilled manpower. By 2020 India will have a share of about 18% of the world’s skilled manpower. With required support and participation from the Government, Industry and Academia, if the skill gaps are addressed, India has the potential to increase its skilled manpower strength to about 47 million by 2020.
298,932
Teachers and Students impacted by ICTACT in the last 6 years
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CHAIRMAN SPEAKS
Lakshmi Narayanan Chairman, ICTACT and Vice Chairman, Cognizant
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ICTACT has enabled the Tamil Nadu college educated students to grab, competitively, a little over 50% of all entry level hiring throughout India, and
also made Tier 2/3 college students competitive so as to join the IT workforce in
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much greater numbers.
ICTACT model has come for praise from NITI Aayog, India’s Planning body, with a recommendation to expand this program and model in other states of India.
CEO MESSAGE
M Sivakumar Chief Executive Officer ,ICTACT
India, a nation with huge demographic advantage strives to cope with the digital revolution spree happening across the globe in terms of knowledge, skills and abilities. ICTACT, a not-for-profit society and the pioneer venture under the Public-PrivatePartnership model emerged to meet the skill requirements of the industry and generate more employment in the nation. The focus of ICTACT is mainly on developing the tier 2 and 3 towns, the rural parts of the country. ICTACT, in its seven year stint has successfully evolved to be an instrumental skill development body that has impacted the nation. ICTACT believes and operates on a seven pillar strategy that includes Faculty Development, Skill Development, Entrepreneurship Development, Youth Empowerment, Research & Publications, Digital Empowerment, and Industry-Institute Interaction to skill the nation completely. ICTACT currently serves 14 states across India, and has empowered around 3 million students and teachers across the nation.
KEY
Achievements *
FACULTY DEVELOPMENT
SKILL DEVELOPMENT
ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Teachers Trained Students Benefitted Programs Conducted Institutions Benefitted States Covered
17,696 735,800 638 1,485 14
Students Trained Students obtained jobs Corporate Engaged Skill Training Programs
40,431 32,753 82 40
EAC Participation EDP Trained States Covered EDP Centres Entrepreneurs Nurtured
47,334 14,140 12 50 214
* As of October 2015
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YOUTH EMPOWERMENT
RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS
DIGITAL
Youth Summits Summit Participants Youth Power Seminars Power Seminar attendees Youth Contest participants Youth Recognitions
4 7,801 129 38,700 25,677 24
International Journals EduTech Magazines Research Work published Editorial and Review Board Global Indexing
5 2 743 417 10
Citizens Trained Teachers Trained Assessed & Certified
114,123 3,907 72,862
ICTACT Bridge Conferences ICTACT Conclaves Total Participants
22 19 19,809
EMPOWERMENT
INDUSTRY-INSTITUTE INTERACTION
* As of October 2015
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ICT Academy is an initiative of the Government of India in collaboration with the state Governments and Industries. ICTACT is a not-
To bridge the Industry-
for-profit society, the first of its kind pioneer
Academia skill gap, and to
(PPP) model that endeavours to train the
develop the next generation teachers & students, the Government of India started
venture under the Public-Private-Partnership higher education teachers and students thereby exercises on developing the next generation teachers and industry ready students. ICTACT was started to meet the skill requirements of the industry and generate
ICT Academy in 2009 under
more employment especially in tier 2 and
the PPP model.
organization was formed with representations
3 towns, the rural parts of the country. The from the State Government of Tamil Nadu, leading companies in the ICT industry and National Association of Software Services Companies (NASSCOM) in India.
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With training of teachers and students as
Institution for Transforming India Aayog), the
the primary objective, ICTACT has been
National Planning body of Government of
working through a seven pillar program in the
India as one of the unique organization for
areas of Faculty Development, Student Skill
dissemination and replication, which is aligned
Development, Entrepreneurship Development,
to the Skill India Vision of the Government of
Youth Empowerment, Industry-Institute
India.
Interaction, Digital Empowerment and Research & Publications.
Through its various initiatives, ICTACT has been part of strengthening the India’s four
In the last 7 years, ICTACT has strived on
important visions on Skill India, Digital India,
every aspect to provide a holistic service to
Startup India and Make in India.
every stakeholder of the education ecosystem in developing the next generation of talent pool in India to make them industry ready employees, innovators, entrepreneurs and leaders. ICTACT is recently endorsed and recommended by NITI Aayog (National
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BOARD OF GOVERNORS
Lakshmi Narayanan
BVR Mohan Reddy
T K Ramachandran IAS
Atul Anand IAS
Chairman, ICTACT and Vice-Chairman, Cognizant
Chairman, NASSCOM Founder and Executive Chairman, Cyient
Principal Secretary - IT Department Government of Tamil Nadu
Managing Director ELCOT
V Balakrishnan
Rajshree Pathy
Krish Ganesan
M Sivakumar
Chairman Micrograam
Chairman and Managing Director, Rajshree Sugars and Chemicals Ltd Chairperson Southern Region CII
Vice President HR & Global Head Recruitment Tata Consultancy Services
Chief Executive Officer ICTACT
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C V Sankar IAS
Apoorva IAS
Kumar Jayant IAS
Additional Chief Secretary Industries Department Government of Tamil Nadu
Secretary Higher Education Department Government of Tamil Nadu
Secretary Labour & Employment Department Government of Tamil Nadu
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States Covered
Nodal Universities
Institutions Engaged
Corporate Engaged
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1,485
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PARTNERS
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BOARD OF STUDIES
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Sujith Kumar
K Purushothaman
Dr Anbu Rathnavel
M Sivakumar
HR Business Leader Infosys Ltd.
Senior Director NASSCOM
Senior Vice President & Dean - Finance Academy Scope International
CEO ICTACT
Benedict Arokiasamy
Chandrasekhar C
K Senthil Nayagam
Dr G Sainarayanan
AVP - Learning and Development CSS Corp
Head of Human Resources - India, Atmel Corporation
SVP and Global Head - Manufacturing and Consumer Hexaware Technologies
Senior Technical Specialist HCL Technologies Ltd
M P Vijay Kumar
Ram Singampalli
L Sivasankaran
B Anbuthambi
Chief Financial Officer Sify Technologies Ltd
Sr. Vice President and BU Head - Managed Services, Syntel Inc
Head - Quadro Business, South Asia, NVIDIA Graphics Pvt Ltd.
Vice President - Education Initiatives ICTACT
Aspire K Swaminathan
J Kesavardhanan
Founder and CEO Aspire Ventures
CEO and Managing Director K7 Computing Pvt Ltd.
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STATES COVERED
ICTACT HQ Chennai, India
Currently Servicing 14 States across India ÐÐ Andhra Pradesh
ÐÐ Maharashtra
ÐÐ Assam
ÐÐ Odisha
ÐÐ Chattisgarh
ÐÐ Pondicherry
ÐÐ Goa
ÐÐ Punjab
ÐÐ Jharkhand
ÐÐ Rajasthan
ÐÐ Karnataka
ÐÐ Tamil Nadu
ÐÐ Kerala
ÐÐ Telangana
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The aim of India’s higher education system is attaining sustainable development and
The Indian higher education system is the second largest in the world in terms of enrolment, consisting of nearly 30 million students enrolled in 48,500 institutions. The quality of teachers and faculty members will decide the quality of the students and thereby the next generation manpower.
achieving higher growth rates which could be enabled through creation, transmission and dissemination of knowledge. Higher education at all levels in the country is witnessing a consistent growth pattern marked by the setting up of new institutions and the improvement of the existing ones. Demand for qualified teachers and faculty members over the next few years would be substantial and will become extremely critical for states to expand the current institutional capacities, not only of infrastructure but also of qualified and trained faculty members. India is one among the countries that has the highest number of educational institutions in the world and, consequently, the highest
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FACULTY
1
DEVELOPMENT Teachers Trained
Students Benefitted
Programs Conducted
17,696
735,800
638
Institutions Benefitted
States Covered
1,485
14
* As of October 2015
number of teachers and faculty members. The
and learning. Thus, enhancing the academic
unprecedented growth of institutions in India in
and intellectual environment in the Institutions
the past two decades has led to a shortage of
by providing faculty members with ample
updated and well trained faculty members and
opportunities to pursue research and also
has created a quality challenge for education.
to participate in seminars / conferences /
In recent years, though ICT educational
workshops has become vital for developing
tools have been understood and adopted by
nations like India. Participation in such
many institutions, the same is not true for
programmes would enable faculty members to
educational planning and implementation.
update their research and pedagogical skills.
There is a need for well-trained faculty who
Higher education institutions are starting to
will help improve programs to produce quality
adapt and respond to professionals already
graduates.
in employment, mature learners and the
Increasing internationalization in teaching is strongly supported by the Indian sector and is considered vital for Indian institutions in developing India’s capacity in research and innovation, driving up India’s institutional ranking and increasing the quality of teaching
demand from students enrolled for skills for employability programs. With the aim of equipping faculty members with required skills and knowledge, ICTACT pursues the Faculty Development Program as its primary objective.
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ICTACT has evolved a framework for Course Development, Faculty Training and Student Training. The framework has been made with focus making the transmission of knowledge from the faculty to students highly effective with all the tools associated to the
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same. ICTACT training framework is developed with TOT, Student Training followed by assessment and certification.
12,696 Faculty Members trained through corporate partnerships
5,000 faculty members trained by Government of India through ICTACT
ICTACT has been implementing a range of
ICTACT indeed was started with an initial
Faculty Development Programs in the ICT
objective of training 5,000 faculty members.
domain for the faculty members across the
ICTACT has successfully completed one of
nation. These FDPs are designed and offered
its project on “ICT based training and Skill
in association with leading Corporate. ICTACT
Development for faculties and graduates of
has partnered with world leaders in 3D Design,
the colleges� - by Department of Information
engineering, entertainment and software, as
Technology, Ministry of Information and
an Industry partner, aiming to train faculty
Communication Technology, Government
members on technical skills and eventually
of India. ICTACT has exceeded the target of
help improve employability skills of students in
successfully training 5,000 faculty members in
the country. ICTACT has so far trained 12,696
the state thus benefitting 250,000 students.
faculty members through various niche and contemporary technology courses supported by leading corporate in ICT sector including major players like Cognizant, Autodesk, EMC, VMware, Intel, Oracle, IBM, National Instruments etc.
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Advanced Technical Programs for Teachers
Pedagogy, ICT & Soft Skills Programs for Teachers
ÐÐ Big Data Analytics
ÐÐ ICT in Teaching
ÐÐ Cloud Computing
ÐÐ Communication Skills
ÐÐ Mobile App Development
ÐÐ Presentation Skills
ÐÐ Virtualization
ÐÐ Advanced Teaching Skills
ÐÐ .NET Programming
ÐÐ Leadership Skills
ÐÐ J2EE Programming
ÐÐ Digital Teaching Techniques
ÐÐ Hadoop & Data Science
ÐÐ NLP Techniques in teaching
ÐÐ Building Information Modelling
ÐÐ Ideation Camp
ÐÐ Digital Prototyping
ÐÐ Digital Literacy for Teachers
ÐÐ Embedded System, VLSI
ÐÐ Mentoring
ÐÐ Digital Signal Processing
ÐÐ Counselling Skills
ÐÐ Internet of Things
ÐÐ Academic Leadership and more.
and more.
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Skill Development and Entrepreneurship efforts across the country have been highly fragmented so far. Though India enjoys the demographic advantage of having the youngest
By 2020 India will have a share of about 18% of the world’s skilled manpower and hence has to develop the skilled manpower strength to 47 million to address the world’s manpower shortage of 56.7 million.
workforce with average age of 29 years in comparison with the advanced economies, as opposed to developed countries, where the percentage of skilled workforce is between 60% and 90% of the total workforce, India records a low 5% of workforce (20-24 years) with formal employability skills. There is a need for speedy reorganization of the ecosystem of skill development and promotion which to suit the needs of the industry is required to ensure enhancement of life to its population. India would surely rise to be the Human Resource Capital of the world by appropriately skilling its youth bulge and
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SKILL
2
DEVELOPMENT Students Trained
Students obtained jobs
Corporate Engaged
40,431
32,753
82
Skill Training Programs
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convert its advantage into a dividend. With the present education and skill levels of those already in the labour force being very low, it would be a major challenge for India to reap its demographic advantage.
* As of October 2015
As India moves progressively towards becoming a global knowledge economy, it must meet the rising aspirations of its youth. This can be partially achieved through focus on advancement of skills that are relevant to the emerging economic environment.
This challenge becomes enormous when the
The challenge pertains not only to a huge
recent studies indicate that employers found
quantitative expansion in skill training for the
just about 25 percent of Indian graduates are
youth, but also to the much more important
‘employable’ in the organized sector. The
task of raising their quality. With a goal to
informal sector which comprises 93 percent
create opportunities, space and scope for
of the workforce has no skilling mechanism as
the development of the talents of the Indian
the skill development takes place on the job.
youth and to develop more of their technical
Skill development will help actualize this inert potential, for which development.
expertise, ICTACT focuses on Youth Skill Development as one of its pillars.
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ICTACT has been training graduates and Youth on various domain specific skill training program, which are mapped to the national skill qualification standards. All the training programs are mapped to the Industry standards
Core Programming Skills In the 20th Century, meaningful education was all about learning your ABCs. Today, it’s centred on Alphas, Betas and C++. Programming skills are becoming ever more important, quickly turning into the core competency for all kinds of 21st Century
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Design, Computer Aided Reverse Engineering, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). The highlight of the training is that it gives projects in each of these competencies and lines up with experts to guide students through partnership with Autodesk.
ICTACT has partnered with cognizant
Advanced Technology Skills
technology solutions, Tata Consultancy
The tech movement is moving forward at light
Services and Hexaware Technologies to
speed and we must either catch the wave, or
provide core programming skill training to
be left behind. With a clear foresight, ICTACT
the students. These programming courses
equips the students with the most dominant
are aligned to the industry standards and the
technologies and platforms through its training
syllabus are framed by the domain experts
programs getting them prepared for the job
taking in mind the industry requirement.
market that is yet to evolve. ICTACT has partnered with EMC, VMware,
Engineering Design Skills ICTACT aims to provide sound knowledge in concept design and production design through the Engineering Design skills. Students will acquire and strengthen skills involved in creating vehicle body design
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concepts; Automotive Styling, Automotive
Oracle, Microsoft, IBM and Horton works to provide a curriculum through which students gain a thorough grounding on all critical and latest concepts of technology. ICTACT advanced technology training provide global certifications to the students for an easy entry into different industries, which are currently
facing a huge shortage in skilled manpower
engagement models as there is a need to
resources.
address the huge demand for skilled workforce in the Services Sectors and for service roles
Electronics Design Skills
in all sectors. Apart from the technology courses that prepare the engineering and
The Electronics Design Skills program aims
technology students, ICTACT also conducts
at equipping students with skills to compete
various other courses that benefit the science
in the ICT and Electronics sector, as latest
and the commerce students. ICTACT offers
technologies like “Internet of Things� are
courses on Banking, Financial Services,
creating new business opportunities and
Retail Management, Hospitality Management
require a new set of skills.
and exclusive Courses on Customer Service
ICTACT has partnered with National
Management Skills that helps the students to
Instruments and Cadence to provide training
be prepared to work in any service sector.
that prepares the innovators of tomorrow with
These programs provide a head start to enter
hands-on experience.
into the fast paced service industry.
Other Domain Skills ICTACT establishes itself in the skill development space across India, by working with the Government of India through various
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Entrepreneurs play an important role in the economic development of a country. Successful entrepreneurs innovate, bring new
India needs to create 10 15 million jobs per year for the next decade to provide gainful employment to its young population. Accelerating Entrepreneurship and business creation is crucial for such largescale employment generation.
products and concepts to the market, improve market efficiency, build wealth, create jobs, and enhance economic growth. Entrepreneurs convert ideas into economic opportunities through innovations which are considered to be major source of competitiveness in an increasingly globalizing world economy. Therefore, most governments in the world strive to augment supply of competent and globally competitive entrepreneurs in their respective countries. While developed nations have a reasonably good pace of entrepreneurial supply, most developing countries suffer from dearth of such entrepreneurs.
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3
DEVELOPMENT EAC participation
EDP Trained
States Covered
47,334
14,140
12
EDP Centres
Entrepreneurs Nurtured
50
214
* As of October 2015
This is one of the reasons for the poverty
It is important to note that in most emerging
in developing countries, despite their rich
economies, 9 out of 10 jobs are created by
resource endowment. More efforts need to be
the private sector, which is the foundation
made to encourage startups in India.
of any thriving economy. In the coming
While supporting young firms in technology and other new-age innovative sectors is important, India also needs to develop an ecosystem that encourages innovation at more mature enterprises across the industrial spectrum, across the existing manufacturing, export, and rural and social enterprise sector.
years, developing countries must rebalance their economies towards greater domestic consumption, import demand and higher value business activity and hence, entrepreneurship is vital to the future of developing countries, thereby ICTACT focuses on Entrepreneurship Development as one of its key pillars.
This segment has the capacity to generate a large number of jobs. According to the World Bank’s World Development Report 2013, around 600 million new jobs will be required in the next 15 years to support a growing workforce.
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ICTACT Innovator Awards Technology Entrepreneurship Development
ICTACT Entrepreneurs Awards
ICTACT Business Plan Contests
Women Entrepreneurship Summit
Youth Entrepreneurship Summit
ICTACT has been conducting a structured entrepreneurship development programs, thereby enabling them to develop as innovators and entrepreneurs. ICTACT has come up with various models in order to develop the youth entrepreneurship skills. Every model has
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a unique delivery methodology and thereby help in cultivating the complete entrepreneurship ecosystem
50 Entrepreneurship Development Centres established
awareness on Women Entrepreneurship
ICTACT has created 50 Entrepreneurship
of female entrepreneurs as well as strategies to
Development Centres in the higher education
promote and support women entrepreneurship.
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conferences emphases were laid on analysing the strengths, challenges and business models
institutions across Tamil Nadu. ICTACT, with its existing partnerships with leading organizations including Microsoft, Intel, Autodesk, Oracle, IBM, Cognizant, TCS, Hexaware, Dell, Infosys etc., will work towards jointly nurturing innovation among college students, thereby creating entrepreneurs from colleges.
Training the Trainers program for 300 NSS Programme Officers across India ICTACT has identified 300 Programme Officers in 12 states across India, under the Train the Trainer Program. On successful completion
Women Entrepreneurship Conferences
of the training, The Programme Officers
ICTACT has conducted Women
Officers have trained 12,000 students across
Entrepreneurship Development conferences
the 12 states.
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Development and its benefits. Through these
have trained the students in their respective institutions in turn. The 300 Programme
Entrepreneurship Training for 12,000 students across India 12,000 students who are keen in pursuing
Annual ICTACT Student Innovator Awards & Entrepreneur Awards
entrepreneurship were identified across 12
ICTACT Student Innovator Awards and ICTACT
States in the nation and were trained in various
Upcoming Entrepreneur Awards every year
entrepreneurship skills under this program. On
for the next-generation entrepreneurs who
completion of the training, these students were
identified a problem in the society and provide
guided to become entrepreneurs by selecting
an effective business solution. This award is
best business plans and assisting in funding
conferred in partnership with TiE Chennai,
and incubation facilities to implement their
Federation of Indian Young Entrepreneurs,
business plan.
Tiruchirappalli Regional Engineering College Science and Technology Park and Wadhwani
Entrepreneurship Awareness for 20,000 students
Foundation. Almost 5,000 nominations are received yearly and 20 winners were awarded.
ICTACT conducts awareness campaigns that create a unique opportunity to understand the entrepreneurship basics and has helped to bring out their inner spirits on pursuing entrepreneurship. Through this program, ICTACT has skilled 20,000 students. After several levels of training, select students were allowed to interact with business leaders and get connected with incubators and mentors to achieve their dreams.
Annual ICTACT Youth Entrepreneurship Summit The Youth Entrepreneurship Summit is a unique opportunity for young entrepreneurs to ride their dreams and spread wings for their innovative startups. The summit attracts 3,500 youths yearly to the new world of opportunities towards starting enterprises and embracing entrepreneurship. The event is conducted on an yearly basis and has come up with choice of collaboration and networking of startups across the nation.
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By 2020, India’s population is expected to become the world’s youngest; more than 500
Every third person in an Indian city today is a youth. The working population of India, is expected to increase to 592 million by 2020, next only to China (776 million), pointing to the fact that youth will make a significant contribution to the economic development of the country.
million Indian citizens will be under 25 years of age and more than two thirds of the population will be eligible to work. This means that a growing number of India’s youth need the right educational infrastructure to develop skills and adequate opportunities to get employed or become entrepreneurs. Building vocational and technical skills is not enough, as marginalized youth need training in soft skills such as communication, leadership and in boosting self-confidence. The ambit covers interpersonal skills like communication skills, teamwork capability, conflict management, cultural awareness and negotiation skills, inter-personal skills like sociability, honesty and integrity, courtesy,
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YOUTH
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EMPOWERMENT Youth Summits
Summit Participants
Youth Power Seminars
4
7,801
129
Power Seminar attendees
Youth Contest participants
Youth Recognitions
38,700
25,677
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work ethic, empathy, responsibility and
urgency is in ensuring that every child in this
good manners, and personal traits like
country is equipped with these skills that are
imagination, curiosity, passion, persistence
required to be able to adapt to this frantic pace
and determination. Soft Skills are gaining
of change and succeed within the unknown.
importance in the job market as these are
However, one aspect of skilling that has been
highly valued by employers and contribute to
ignored is the development of soft skills. Soft
greater productivity. While in-depth knowledge
skills are interpersonal, human or behavioural
and industry expertise is essential, proficiency
skills necessary for applying technical skills
in English, inter-personal skills as well as
and knowledge in the workplace. Thus,
problem solving and other managerial skills
certain steps are required to be taken to
that enable people to work with colleagues
ensure better quality of skill development
across the globe and manage all kinds of
by incorporating soft skills training in the
diverse situations are important too, as
process of skilling India’s workforce. ICTACT
graduates and young adults all over the world
has found that helping young adults to
face challenges when they leave the campus.
shape the future direction of their careers
Skills of resilience, empathy, creativity, flexibility and adaptability are going to be critical in this unpredictable future. The
* As of October 2015
is a crucial and critical aspect of their talent development. ICTACT has addressed this issue by conceptualizing and starting Youth empowerment as one of the pillars. Creating New Generation Talent Pool
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ICTACT Youth empowerment initiatives include Youth Circle, annual youth summits, and annual youth contests , which are aimed at
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developing today’s youth as tomorrow’s leaders by improving their communication skills and leadership skills.
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Youth Empowerment Conferences
nation. The seminar series has a sole objective
ICTACT organizes a series of summit for
some new ideas and directions about life and
students titled “ICTACT Youth Summit”, a
research skills. ICTACT Power Seminar covers
platform for the young Indian students to
broad range of topics across verticals with 129
come together and get inspired to prepare
seminar conducted so far benefitting 38,700
themselves for the next generation. The
youth.
of igniting the minds of the youth which them to develop cross-disciplinary inspirations and get
Summit focuses on variety of topics including entrepreneurship, innovation, technology, leadership etc., which are key for the youth to
ICTACT Youth Contests
shape the future. Four mega conferences have
ICTACT Youth Contest is a student competition
been conducted so far benefitting 7801 youth
devoted to bring out inspiring ideas among
participants.
students in the colleges in form of talks, presentations, writing and other unique
ICTACT Power Seminar
talents. Through these contest students from
ICTACT Power Seminar is a series of half-
powerful communication skills, presentation
day seminars, featuring multiple tracks with
skills and drive their ideas to inspire the youth
noted speakers, offered at several locations.
community across the nation. Under this
ICTACT Power Seminars address highly
initiatives, the various contests conducted
technical issues or to teach the fundamentals
so far are Youth Talk, Youth Present, Photo
of a specific application to students across the
Contest and Youth Article Contest. 25,677 youth
various disciplines participate and exhibit their
have so far participated in various contest and 18 youth have been awarded under different contests.
Career Guidance Programs ICTACT has developed a comprehensive, developmental program that is designed to assist school students in making and implementing informed higher educational opportunities and occupational choices. These career guidance and counselling programs enhance any individual’s competencies in self-knowledge, educational and occupational exploration, career planning and prepare them
ICTACT Youth Circle ICTACT team of experts has designed a premium program in empowering aspiring students and training them to make the transition from the campus to their professional world successfully. The mission of this Forum is to provide an equally constructive and encouraging atmosphere that allows them to learn individually as well as in a group. It gives them the opportunity to develop their oral communication and leadership skills, which will in turn nurture their and also helps them acquire self-confidence immaterial of their academic performance.
for making life-changing career decisions.
ICTACT Youth Circle provides opportunities
These career guidance programs are delivered
for youth to practice English speaking skills
by domain experts and specialists, thereby
through peer group interactions, reflecting on
assisting the students to compete in today’s
the speech, connecting it to real life examples,
changing global marketplace for disruptive
and applying the knowledge that results to
career opportunities. The Career Guidance
other situations. It is a forum that helps the
Program has so far impacted 36,098 students
students to improve the skills of speaking,
across 10 states through 22 Career Guidance
listening and thinking, through a relaxed,
Programs.
friendly and supportive environment.
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Four decades ago, significant discoveries were
India is rapidly enlarging its research
numerous, but most occurred in the well-
presence globally. Its output
America. In 1973, about two-thirds of the
expanded nearly three times the world average over the last decade, some 146%, from 21,269 Web of
nearly 400,000 research publications had an author in one of the G7 countries. Today, this has changed dramatically. Four times as many documents - more than 1.75
Science papers in 2003 to 45,639 in
million journal publications - are being indexed,
2012. It is an impressive growth and
significant part of the change is attributable to
gained for the nation an increase in world share of 1.1%, from 2.5% to 3.6%.For 2008 to 2012, India captured
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established economies of Europe and North
and barely half will have a G7 author. A rapid research growth in five countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Korea. India prides itself in having one of the largest technical manpower in the world. Noting
its greatest world share of papers in
that the country would have to depend on
engineering and technology at 4.8%.
improve its innovativeness index, Applied
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technologies derived from Indian science to
RESEARCH &
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PUBLICATIONS International Journals
Research Work published
Global Indexing
5
743
10
Edutech Magazines
Editorial and Review Board
2
417
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& fundamental research is the crying need of the
in India but a seeming dearth of contributions at the
nation to foster research culture in our academia and
highest level, when measured by citation impact.
universities.
If India wants to position itself as an economic
The first and foremost challenge that confronts the
superpower in the coming decades, there is a serious
government is of encouraging enough people to take
amount of work to be done and a lot of ground to
up research. With fewer researchers, the country
cover especially in research and development. India
of over 1.2 billion people has one of the lowest of
needs a substantial number of researchers to do
scientific workforce, ranking even below Chile, Kenya
basic research that lead to the generation of new
including the US and UK when it comes to research
knowledge necessary to increase productivity of
workforce density in the labour population. This
educational, business and industrial organizations.
has a direct impact on the number of patents and
India needs to advance the research agenda by
research paper India puts out. During the decade
working in collaboration with academia, society
2003-12 the citation impact rose from about half
and industry. Interdependence between these three
to three quarters of the world average. And yet,
is a must for any kind of research output. Only an
while India’s contribution of highly cited papers, as
organization that works with a collaborative model
a percentage of total output, has improved, it has
between academia, government and corporate can
remained stubbornly low, achieving by 2011 only
make it possible and that is the reason why ICTACT’s,
about half of the 1% expected (the definition of highly
one of the pillar is Research and Publications.
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ISSN
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0976 0091 (P) 2229 6948 (O)
0976 9099 (P) 0976 9102 (O)
0976 6561 (P) 0976 6956 (O)
2395 1672 (P) 2395 1680 (O)
2395 1656 (P) 2395 1664 (O)
ICTACT promotes research and publication as one of its major pillar through ICTACT journals and ICTACT magazine. ICTACT
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Journals are peer-reviewed International Journals published quarterly.
ICTACT Research and Publication
and corporate representatives with recognition
ICTACT promotes research and publication as
research,archival results and share
one of its major pillar through ICTACT Journals
experiences among global academicians,
and ICTACT EduTech magazines.
research scholars, educators and practitioners.
ICTACT Journals are peer-reviewed
ICTACT Journals publish research articles
International Journals published quarterly.
that map the new frontiers in emerging
With the objective of creating Indian-based
technologies of the ICT domain. ICTACT
journals of international quality and to build
Journals serve the purpose of providing
local research content, ICTACT Journals exist
a platform for researchers, students, and
for the purpose of providing a quality peer-
faculties to exhibit their research ideas to the
reviewed platform for scientists, researchers,
entire community. Apart from regular papers,
academicians and engineers who carry out
ICTACT also publishes special issues on specific
their original research. ICTACT provides access
current topics of interest to the international ICT
to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.
community. So far, ICTACT has associated with
The Journals highlight the continued growth
417 Editorial Board and Review Committee
and new challenges in both basic research and
members, and has published more than 743
application development. ICTACT has a panel
research articles till date.
of experts on their Editorial Board and Review Committee comprising senior academicians
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across the globe. ICTACT Journals provide a forum to unveil and exchange innovative
Indexing of ICTACT Journals ICTACT Journals has been indexed by various internationally recognized databases as a reflection of its quality. Indexing and abstracting services facilitate the broadest dissemination of information by pointing researchers to articles that are relevant to the field. Having been indexed by various databases ICTACT Journals have a proven a track record of timely publication and respectable scientific and scholarly research content.
and receive information on areas emergent in ICT Industry etc. ICT Connect and ICT Evolve are circulated amongst all the colleges and schools respectively, which reaches the key decision makers including the Correspondents, Principals, Heads of the Departments, Teachers and the student community. The magazine is made available in every library in the institutions for the students to explore information on education and keep abreast with the current trends and technologies. The magazine is circulated to more than 1,500 institutions in hardcopy reaching nearly
ICTACT Magazines
350,000 readers and is also available for the global readers in online as flip books.
ICTACT publishes 2 magazines on quarterly basis, named “ICT Connect” and “ICT Evolve” with an objective to provide a platform for students, teachers, researchers and corporate executives to share best practices in the industry, learn technological advancements in ICT, obtain career guidance, skill development, and gain exposure to Case studies, Skill Gap Analysis, teaching and learning methodologies,
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In a country with more than 6,50,000 villages, where more than half of its population live
Making one person in every family digitally literate is one of the integral components of the Prime Minister‘s vision
in rural areas and villages. Most are remote
of “Digital India” for which the Indian government has formulated to impart Digital Literacy training to citizens across India.
India due to low technology literacy among the
and too isolated to benefit from the country’s impressive economic progress. Yet there’s a growing desire among people in rural India to be part of the modern Digital India. But the lastmile delivery has always been a challenge for rural citizens. The need for digital literacy in a country as populous and diverse as India is critical. If it is used for education, health care, citizen services, financial services, or any other basic need, technology and connectivity, it can make a huge difference to the socio-economic levels of a community, and ultimately to the country, since true progress comes from inclusive
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DIGITAL
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EMPOWERMENT Citizens Trained
Teachers Trained
Assessed & Certified
114,123
3,907
72,862
* As of October 2015
growth. Digital Literacy plays a vital role in
the Prime Minister‘s vision of “Digital India”.
e-services like e-commerce, e-governance
Digital India vision promises to transform India
e-panchayat, e-learning, etc. In current
into a fully connected knowledge economy,
scenario, technology is becoming an inevitable
offering world class services at the click of a
part of our daily life, be it using mobile phones,
mouse. This vision aims to change the life in
drawing cash from ATM machines, booking
rural India by making every citizen a complete
a railway ticket etc. Hence, there is a need
digital literate netizen.
that every individual in the country must be equipped with necessary skills so as to use the technology with responsibility. The definition of who is considered a literate or educated has evolved over time and it is not complete without Digital Literacy. Digital Literacy,
With this vision, ICTACT a pioneer in the field of technology education in many ways, has a noble mission to take technology to the common man, in other words, to improve ‘Digital Literacy’ in India.
according to the popular definition is the ability to locate, organize, understand, evaluate, and create information using digital technology. Making one person in every family digitally literate is one of the integral components of Creating New Generation Talent Pool
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Strengthening the Digital India vision of the nation ICTACT has been focusing on Digital Literacy as a key pillar benefitting the citizens, teachers, students in enabling them to lead an effective life in the Digital World.
Digital Literacy Mission ICTACT focuses on digital literacy mission in
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order to develop the capabilities of the students which fit them for living, learning and working in a digital society. ICTACT has trained 35246 students with exclusive program designed to empower students to think critically, behave safely, and participate responsibly in our digital world. ICTACT has collaborated with leading IT giants like Intel and Microsoft for carrying out mission.
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a Digital Nation. This will be completed in 2015. This is an ongoing program of ICTACT and under this program every institution have pledged to train 100 people with less technological skills. NASSCOM, TiE Chennai and CiOKlub are the supporting partners, and EMC is the technology partner for the Digital India Pledge.
Digital Literacy for Teachers ICTACT Digital Literacy for Teachers has
Digital India Pledge Under this program, ICTACT, with the help of 250 educational institutions and corporate companies have signed up to train 25,000 people with lesser technological literacy to develop their skills required to interact in the
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greatly complemented the traditional teaching techniques to help students to learn much more and much faster. The Digital Literacy Program has made the life of teaching community very simple and easy. ICTACT has conducted the digital literacy program to the teachers of various institutions with the collaboration of
Intel and Microsoft. These programs have
an objective to assess and certify individuals
enabled the teachers to efficiently use the ICT
on “Appreciation of Digital Literacy - Level 1”
tools for effective teaching. The Digital Literacy
under the National Digital Literacy Mission
Program especially benefitted the teachers
(NDLM) program of the Government of
from tier II and tier III towns. Through this
India. This enables the various industries and
program, ICTACT has trained 3,858 teachers in
institutions to get all their Digital Literacy
empowering themselves with various ICT tools.
trained individuals assessed and certified through ICTACT.
National Digital Literacy Certification
Empowering E-Governance
ICTACT is a certified assessment partner
With the digitalization and the implementation
for National Digital Literacy Mission. This is
of E-Governance in the government
an online examination for the beneficiaries
departments and offices, ICTACT’s Digital
trained on NDLM. ICTACT has assessed
Literacy Program has enabled the government
72,862 trained beneficiaries in basic computer
officials to perform their daily activities
concepts and skills so that people can use
confidently in a digital world.
computer technology in everyday life to develop new social and economic opportunities for themselves, their families, and their communities. ICTACT being the assessment and certification partner of NDLM does this certification with
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With the advent of globalization and opening up of Indian economy to outside world, competition among industries has become stiff.
India is ranked 109 among 145 countries with a score of 3.06 in Knowledge Economic Index. Industry-Institute Interaction is a major factor to enable the Indian Education sector scale up in the global knowledge Index.
To solve their engineering problems they look up now to engineering institutions. Similarly, there is an urgent need to prepare engineering students for jobs in multinational companies, by exposing them to newer technologies and engineering methodologies. These objectives can only be achieved well by bridging the gap between industry and the academic institutions. Better interaction between technical institutions and industry is the need of the hour. This will have great bearing on the engineering curriculum, exposure of engineering students to industrial atmosphere and subsequent placement of young graduating engineers in industries
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INDUSTRY-INSTITUTE
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INTERACTION ICTACT Bridge Conferences
ICTACT Conclaves
Total Participants
22
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19,809
* As of October 2015
across the country. Industries and institutes have been collaborating for over a century, but the rise of a global knowledge economy has intensified the need for strategic partnerships. The Institutes are imparting the basic knowledge and skill, but the Industry-Institute Interaction will enable to undertake research by staff and students relevant to the industry. The Industry-Institute Interaction should be designed to run longer period for preparing the manpower of world class in the field of science and technology by inculcating the various skills required by the industry, thereby
built by the government to develop the Make in India program, the manpower needs have to be fulfilled in order to witness the required development. Though availability of manpower is abundant in India, well equipped manpower with employability skills is the need of the hour. There is a need to create avenues for a close academia and industry interaction through all the phases of technology development, starting from conceptualizing to commercialization. ICTACT has crafted a unique IndustryInstitution Interaction initiative as one of its core pillars.
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A platform that brings together the Industry Executives, Academic Leaders and Government Officers under one roof, creating a vibrant discussion forum.
A unique platform for the Deans, Directors and Principals of institutions to learn on contemporary themes aimed at developing the new generation talent.
ICTACT, through its Industry-Institute Interaction events, has created a vibrant platform for the academic leaders, industry and
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government to work closer in bridging the skill gap that exists between academia and industry.
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ICTACT Bridge - The Largest Industry Institute Interaction Event of India
ICTACT Conclave on contemporary themes for Academic Leaders
ICTACT Bridge is a flagship conference of
ICTACT has been conducting various conclaves
ICTACT and a platform for all the stakeholders
addressing specific stakeholder glitches in
in the education ecosystem to discuss on
the Academia. Every conclave is planned
improving the Industry-Institute collaboration,
with specific focus area and addresses the
in creating a vibrant industry relevant
key issues and challenges in today’s context.
education scenario in the country. Started in
19 conclaves on specific focus areas were
the year 2011, ICTACT has so far conducted
conducted to address the bottlenecks faced
22 Bridge conferences and has been receiving
by various stakeholders that include training
an overwhelming response from all the
and placement officers, academic leaders,
stakeholders of the knowledge ecosystem,
Department HODs. 2,334 participants were
represented by a multitude of leaders from
benefitted from this conclave so far.
Academia, Corporate, Government and Media. ICTACT Bridge has so far benefitted around 17,475 participants from across the nation.
ICTACT Placement Directors and Deans Conclave
leaders abreast of the innovations and
This conclave was conducted with an objective
vision into reality.
to create awareness on the “Recruitment Trends of the Year”. This conclave brought together the recruitment leaders / heads of various leading companies to have a close interaction with the Placement Directors of ICTACT member colleges on developing the right talent pool at the institutions for the companies.
concerns pertaining to education, learning, academic leadership and turning institution
ICTACT Round Table ICTACT conducts various Round Tables on discussing about specific issues and challenges. These Round tables focuses on key issues and topics which are vital in the current scenario for the insertions to impart essential solutions in the education ecosystem of the country. The Round Tables also stimulates debate, discussions and solutions
ICTACT Conclave on Academic Leadership
among Industry, Academia and Government
ICTACT, on a yearly basis, organizes one-day
relevant next generation talent pool.
to provide with solutions that is productive for all stakeholders in creating create industry
conclave for the Principals, Directors and Deans of its member institutions focusing on “Academic Leadership”.The workshop is designed specifically to keep the academic
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RECOGNITIONS & ENDORSEMENTS
ICTACT has been endorsed by government,
institutions and various government
industry and corporate houses for the
departments like Department of Information
uniqueness of its various initiatives and
Technology, Government of India for
programs. ICTACT has bench marked itself
dissemination of knowledge to the society
through these various endorsements and has
and contribution towards enhancing the
created a new path in the education and skill
overall knowledge index of the nation.
development ecosystem.
Central institutions like Rajiv Gandhi National
Endorsed by NITI Aayog
endorsed ICTACT for the seamless precision
NITI Aayog (National Institution for
in the execution of various mass skill
Transforming India Aayog) is a Government
development programs that was successfully
of India policy think-tank established by Prime
incorporated across 12 states of the nation.
Minister in the place of Planning Commission. The stated aim for NITI Aayog’s creation is
Continued Industry Participation
to foster involvement and participation in the
Several leading corporate have commended
economic policy-making.
ICTACT for its unique initiatives that have
NITI Aayog has recently released the “Skill India - Report of The Sub-Group of Chief Ministers on Skill Development”, in which
addressed the manpower needs of the growing IT Enabled Services (ITeS) industry in India.
ICTACT is pointed out as one of the best
These endorsements and recognitions
practices by states for dissemination &
provided by various stakeholders of skill
replication”.
development have entrusted ICTACT with
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a strong commitment to empower India to emerge with global competitiveness.
ALIGNED TO NATION’S VISION
The vision of India is futuristic, looking at India
for achievement with its excellent policy to
as a globally dominant economy, with a high
create intellectual, economic and social value
quality higher education sector that leads and
among the various stakeholders of the entire
full-fills the needs of the society. The 7 core
education ecosystem. The implementation
pillars of ICTACT are encapsulated with all its
of the frameworks of 7 core pillars focuses
strengths and harnessed fully to propel India
on the youth as the centre stage to foster
into a leadership position midst the world
innovation and choice, an ICT architecture that
nations.
will increase access, equity and quality, that
By 2020, India will be amongst the youngest
will enable autonomy and self-regulation.
nations in the world. With nearly 140 million
ICTACT has created its vision outline with
people in the college-going age group, one
specific action items in each of the focus areas
in every four graduates in the world will be a
and are time bound with quantifiable goals that
product of the Indian higher education system.
are intended to achieve outcomes both in the
By 2020, the existing challenges for Indian
immediate term as well as the long term.
higher education - access, equity and quality
On implemented the vision plan of ICTACT that
- will only be greatly exacerbated unless we
are aligned to the Nation’s visions, will work
significantly transform our higher education
towards putting India on high growth path,
model.
revive the economy, boost job growth and
Needless to say, 2020 calls for a new vision
deliver good governance to the citizens.
and a new aspiration, and this is the right time to articulate an ambitious vision for higher education reform and lay out a road map to achieving it. ICTACT, through its various pillars, has devised a road-map
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THE BIG INDIA
“The size is too big, which requires scaling to masses and reaching to the rural India.“
ICTACT VISION 2020 Scaling to impact lives of teachers and youth of the Nation through 7 Pillars of ICTACT
To impact
1,200,000 Teachers and Students across India by 2020
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THE 4 YEAR PLAN - 2016 - 2020
Faculty Development
Skill Development
150,000
300,000
Training Faculty members in the Universities,
Training Graduating students from Higher Education
Higher Education Institutions and Schools on various
Institutions on various domain specific employment
contemporary areas, thereby building the capacity of
based skill program, thereby improving their
teachers in India.
employability skills and be readily deployable in the Industry.
Digital Empowerment
Entrepreneurship Development
500,000
250,000
Aligned to the Digital India Vision of India, training
Creating entrepreneurship awareness among
citizens across India on Digital Literacy, Cyber
youth across India, by inducing creative and
Security and other digital awareness programs,
innovative thinking. Aimed at identifying potential
making every citizen in India tech savvy, thereby
student entrepreneurs and develop them through
leading to live a digitally supported and a safe online
Entrepreneurship training, mentoring programs,
life in the Digital India.
incubation and facilitating linkage to necessary funding bodies, thereby converting at least 1% of students turn entrepreneurs.
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