Education ministry selects Oracle Cloud to modernize EdTech platform DIKSHA to develop Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing (DIKSHA), India’s national education provider.
With a long-term contract with the Ministry of Education, OCI will play a significant role in helping DIKSHA to deliver educational services to millions of students and teachers by making it pocket friendly. The Edtech platform provides 36 Indian languages for 1.48 million education institutions stretching across 35 states and union territories.
Oracle India, Net Suit Asia Pacific, and Japan, Senior Vice President and Regional Managing Director, Shailendra Kumar stated that “Our next generation cloud, perfectly aligns with DIKSHA’s goals because of its ability to provide s liability and elasticity while running applications faster, more secure, and more efficiently.”
The DIKSHA is using several service providers like Logstash, Elasticsearch, and Kibana to monitor performance, diagnose applications, and create dashboards as it generates a large number of logs.
The OCI storage will provide support in terms of storage facility to manage workload and material like PDFs, webpages, and videos.
The user experience is prioritized as OCI Media Flow and OCI Media Streams increase the accessibility of nearly 1.5 million videos that are stored and processed on the platform with accurate resolution and format to meet users’ requirements.
Head of Department, ICT and Training, CIET, NCERT, Ministry of Education,
Dr. Indu Kumar said that “We need to embrace modern tools and technology to make education more easily available and securely accessible to everyone.”
Partner networks at Oracle namely Bharti Airtel and Trign Technologies will implement the Diksha migration project. It will further be deployed in the Oracle Cloud Mumbai region.
