All India Society for Electronics and Computer Technology

All India Society for Electronics and Computer Technology (AISECT)

Industry	Social Enterprise
Founded	1985
Headquarters	Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
Area served	India
Key people	Santosh Choubey (Founder & Chairman), Siddhartha Chaturvedi (EVP), Abhishek Pandit (EVP), Pallavi Rao (EVP)
Services	Skill Develeopment & Training, Higher Education, K12 Education, ICT based intervention, E-Governance, Financial Inclusion and Last Mile Service Delivery
Number of employees	3300+ (2019)
Website	aisect.org

All India Society for Electronics and Computer technology (AISECT) is a social enterprise established in 1985 to take computer education to the rural and semi-urban masses. It was established by Santosh Choubey with a vision to bridge the ICT gap between rural and urban India. The organisation now operates in 28 states and four union territories of India, serving millions of people mostly in rural and semi-urban areas through its 23,000+ end-mile service delivery centres.

History

The society was established by Santosh Choubey and a few other youths in 1985 when computers were new to India. Computers became more useful and popular over the years but the rural and semi-urban masses of India were being left out from India's economic and digital growth story. AISECT realising the need to bridge the ICT gap and started developing computer education content in regional languages, starting with Hindi. It started opening computer training centres in rural districts and blocks of Madhya Pradesh in the early nineties. After going through various reorganisations over the years, AISECT was officially registered as a society in the year 1997.

AISECT Initiatives

AISECT organized the AISECT Women Achievers Summit 2016 on the occasion of International Women’s Day, focussing on women’s entrepreneurship. According to the Chairman of AISECT, Santosh Choubey, the organization has always encouraged women to be a part of the professional world and has actively supported women’s entrepreneurship ever since its launch three years ago. Today, a large number of women entrepreneurs are a part of AISECT and are operating their centres successfully. Moreover, women constitute around 50 percent of the workforce at AISECT. AISECT plans to continue to empower women in the future as well. During the concluding session of the summit, film actress and theatre artist Ms. Tisca Chopra and Ms. Jayshree Kiyawat (Director, National Rural Health Mission) felicitated some of the most successful women entrepreneurs of AISECT as well as prominent women achievers of Bhopal for their distinguished work.