Oracle announced that India’s Ministry of Education has chosen Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to modernize the country’s national education technology platform ‘Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing’ (DIKSHA). DIKSHA was  launched by Vice President of India M. Venkaiah Naidu on 5 September 2017. 

• This migration will help make DIKSHA more accessible and lower its IT costs.
• The platform supports 1.48 million schools across all of India’s 35 states and union territories and is available in 36 Indian languages.
• Under the multi-year collaboration agreement, OCI will help the Ministry of Education use DIKSHA to provide educational resources to millions of additional students, teachers and collaborators across India.
• As one of India’s largest and most successful Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) initiatives, DIKSHA was developed for school education and foundational learning programs.
• Using the open-source platform Sunbird, developed by the EkStep Foundation, DIKSHA helps teachers support inclusive learning for communities of underserved and disabled learners across the country. More than 200 million students and 7 million teachers from government and private schools access content from more than 11,000 contributors.