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NEW DELHI, INDIA: Nasscom Foundation (NF) announced the launch of its first knowledge center in partnership with member company, Zensar.
Zensar Foundation launched its first knowledge center in association with the Nasscom Foundation to build a self-sustaining Center, which would provide multi-purpose services to the community in Kharadi where it operates.
The center has been supported by the School Board of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and powered by Suraj Foundation as the implementation partner.
The center was inaugurated at a function at the PMC School in Kharadi, by Dr Ganesh Natarajan, Dy Chairman and MD, Zensar and Chairman, Nasscom; Praveen Pardeshi, Pune Municipal Commissioner and Rufina Fernandes, CEO, Nasscom Foundation. Also present at the occasion were NG Kamath, Director, Suraj Foundation and Vandana Chavan, Ex Mayor and Environmentalist.
At the occasion, Natarajan said, “The Nasscom Knowledge Network (NKN) is a unique approach towards public private partnerships and we are glad to be one the first IT companies to sponsor a knowledge center. We plan to expand our own efforts to support NF to reach out to centers in other states to enable education at the grassroots across the country through technology reach-out programs. We hope that this first effort would lead to many other corporates coming forward to help bridge the great digital divide.”
Rufina Fernandes, CEO, Nasscom Foundation at the inauguration said, “We look forward to a long-standing relationship with Zensar and hope that other member companies will take their example and contribute as a vibrant IT industry to help us expand the network to help meet our 350 mark. There is a need to scale this project extensively in a very short span of time to make a large and lasting impact across the country on under-served communities.”
Zensar aims to build this as a model center for other companies to forge partnerships to scale this socially relevant service through the NKN.
In addition to this, Zensar is also associating with the PMC at various levels and is also setting up the IT LAB for the PMC School at Kharadi that will cater to the information needs of children.
This is the second such initiative instituted by the company.