The 5 day ICT training programme for Visually Challenged school teachers of Alappuzha District was conducted from 16th to 20th February 2010. Six teachers were trained at the it@school resource centre, Alappuzha. The training was on the use of computers as part of enriching their pedagogy with the latest ICT tools.

The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has given its approval to back the certificate course provided for the differently abled at INSIGHT. INSIGHT, a project of the Kerala State IT Mission, has been endeavouring to empower the differently abled, mainly the visually challenged, through computers, Internet and other ICT tools.

INSIGHT has been running a customised training programme, spanning over 160 hours, for the benefit of the differently abled.  Training is provided in Free Software and is aimed at comprehensively equipping the differently abled to make best use of ICT. More than a 100 students from educational backgrounds have been trained by INSIGHT so far.

Further to this approval, all students completing the training and clearing the examination thereafter will be issued a certificate from IGNOU. More modalities on the actual implementation are being worked out.

Second batch of Training , jointly conducted by Kerala State IT Mission and District Panchayat has started for differently abled students of Pallichal Panchayat . The training adds a new dimension as it gave them opportunity to use the accessible technologies available today to become self-reliant in life. It will continue for three weeks.

A two day training programme was held for the Akshaya Entrepreneurs at Palakkad on 10^th and 11^th February 2010, for training the Visually Challenged in using computers. 34 participants from different Akshaya centres participated in the training programme which was held at BPL Telecom Wireless and Computer Training Academy, Chandranagar, Palakkad.

The first batch of training for differently abled, jointly conducted by Kerala State IT Mission and District Panchayat has started on 1^st February 2010. 21 visually challenged students are undergoing training at INSIGHT centre, on the use of computers with the latest free and open source ICT tools in two separate sessions.

The next set of trainings will be starting shortly.