IGNOU Award for Azim Premji Foundation
The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) Wednesday conferred the Rajiv Gandhi International Prize for Technology in Education and Development on the Azim Premji Foundation.
The award instituted by the university in its silver jubilee year was presented to Azim Premji by Communications and Information Technology Minister Kapil Sibal at a ceremony.
Focusing on the basics of education through equity, Premji said: “You can’t build skyscrapers in air. We need a solid foundation to address the demands.”
He stressed on the need of integrating IT with mainstream education which would then prove far more useful in disseminating education among adults than children.
According to IGNOU, the award comprising of Rs.five lakh cash and a citation is given to individual or institution that has made significant contributions in education, particularly educational technology, for development in developing countries across the world.
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