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ERNET India’s Web Portal for Educational Institutes

Context: An integrated web portal for educational institutes in the country developed by ERNET India was launched by the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY).

About Web Portal

  • Service Provided: The portal will offer domain registration, DNS and Value-added Services viz. Website as a Service (WaaS) and Learning Management as a Service (LMaaS).
  • Website as a Service  (WaaS) is a cloud service developed to generate websites. It enables entities to choose from various themes for generating websites and customizing and managing the content easily, thus empowering them to maintain their online presence. 
    • Example: S3WaaS
S3WaaS is a cloud service developed for government entities to generate Secure, Scalable & Sugamya (Accessible) websites. 

  • It enables government entities to choose from various themes for generating websites and customising and managing the content easily, thus empowering them to maintain their online presence.
  • Government entities requiring primarily informational websites can use the S3WaaS framework to generate and host the website under GOV.IN or NIC.IN domain.
  • It will utilize open-source software and emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence /Machine Learning.
  • Function: 
    • The users can select from the variety of available templates for schools, colleges, and universities as per their requirements and create their own website and Learning Management System.
    • The user can publish the website and LMS by customizing the template with single click.

About ERNET India

  • Ernet Full Form: Education and Research Network, India
  • About: ERNET India is an autonomous not-for-profit scientific society.
  • Nodal ministry:  Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
  • Focus: ERNET India mainly provides connectivity across various educational platforms in the country but also gives consultancy, project management, training and other value-added services such as web hosting, e-mail services, video conferencing, domain registration, CUG services.
  • Roles: 
    • It is the exclusive domain registrar for all the education & research institutes having ‘ac.in’, ‘edu.in’ & ‘res.in’ as domain name.
    • It  offers smart classrooms, campus Wi-Fi, web accessibility, and satellite and terrestrial systems connectivity to the nation’s research and educational institutions.
  • ERNET is identified by Govt. of India as the nodal network for India and is connected through a high-speed link to the pan-European Education and Research Network (GEANT).

Also Read: Section 67 IT Act 

News Source: PIB

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