Participatory policy-building process – Consultative and Collaborative
Participatory Approach
The participatory approach to develop the National policy aims to develop the ICT in school education goals and objectives through equal participation of all stakeholders involved in ICT and school education sector in India.
Needs Analysis
The participation of multiple stakeholders will enable a robust policy that addresses the current needs and requirements of ICT in school education.
Platform for Knowledge Sharing
The process has an outreach strategy to involve stakeholders at national and regional levels and provide a platform for sharing of knowledge and experiences.
Building Partnerships
The policy building process involves selecting audiences, messages and processes to formulate partnership as focussed working groups on broad work areas of policy development process, strategic implementation planning, ICTs in teaching and learning, infrastructure and connectivity, monitoring and evaluation.
Dynamic Policy
The participatory process ensures through multi stakeholder partnerships, to create a robust, enriched and dynamic Policy
Policy Ownership Process by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD)
- The MHRD will create operating mechanisms for effective policy formulation, adoption and implementation processes, through committees and task forces drawing on the existing expertise across thematic areas.
- A national consultative process to understand the needs, challenges and issues of the states and union territories and other stakeholders at large will be initiated through several partnerships. This includes online consultations and regional workshops in key areas and meetings with key stakeholders, commissioned studies and surveys.
- The collated learning will provide recommendations to MHRD to enable a participatory policy formulation. Since both technology and processes will be dynamic, the consultations will continue as a dynamic expertise sharing mechanism.
