Thagavalagam

Thagavalagam

Thagavalagam is a Dhan Foundation ICT initiative for advancing development through ICT . Dhan foundation conscious of the technological change and poor being left out in the whole process has initiated, Thagavalagam theme with the objectives to make information technology accessible to poor by developing relevant schemes through research and pilot activities.The project experiments and conducts socially relevant and needed programmes related to micro finance , agriculture, health and other social development as an organizational programme. It also collaborates with research and academic institutions one-governance and computer education at schools.
Thagavalagam Village Information Centre
Thagavalagam is the brand name of the Village Information Centre . It offers a variety of Information and Communication Services which include computer training e mail and browsing work sending applications for obtaining birth and death certificates , sending queries to Aravind eye hospital about eye problems to specialist doctors queries about crops and animals etc . Video Conference in Eye care agriculture fisheries, veterinary science legal consultation education etc is also a regular service in the Thagavalagams.

Thagavalagam Community College : The Hub
Thagavalagam Community College is the hub coordinating the Thagavalagams and is started with the objective of providing quality computer education to students of poor families at affordable fees. The courses offered are
Post graduate Diploma in Computer Application
Diploma in Computer Application.
Certificate course in Computer Application
Thagavalagan Offline Centers: ALCs are adult learning centers which provide computer based adult literacy for poor women in the villages. The illiterate adults learn to read and write Tamil with the help of the software.
Thagavalagam Groups
It consists of poor women and is promoted with the objective of providing ICT based livelihoods. The members are trained in computer software and hardware at the thagavalagams free of cost and they in turn undertake various job works. Sectoral groups are being promoted with various users of the thagavalagams like agriculture, fishermen, youth groups etc. These sectoral groups form the thagavalagam development association which manages the VICs.
Content development
The content developed includes different educational content, different software for services like agriculture and animal husbandry being used by farmers in thagavalagams. A team of VIC operators are also trained and involved in the content development. A wide range of location specific content is available at all thagavalagams.
website www .dhan.org