Empowering IT education in rural India

Education is a basic necessity and a portal for betterment. The use of technology in education has had a positive impact on the students, educators, as well as the educational system as a whole throughout the country. But due to the poor economic condition, many rural areas are not capable of affording the modern innovative education technologies developed by computer systems. This has brought an urban-rural digital divide affecting the student strengths in building their career based objectives. In order to attain career based objectives at their higher education phase collaborative education management systems would help them. The existing education management systems are not reachable to the rural areas due to various factors like lack of infrastructure, maintenance cost, lack of expertise, etc. This motivated us to investigate the technology advancement aiming for empowering IT education in Indian rural education system. The establishment of collaborative education management systems on cloud can help the management in elevating the problems and in providing new service models which in turn stimulate growth and reduce costs. The main theme of this paper is to propose an approach for building cloud based collaborative education management systems abstracting the features of cloud computing. Also the paper presents a view on the proliferation of cloud computing technology for rural education system development in India.