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NIT-C and IEEE Set to Open Solar-Powered Digital Centre at Anakkampoyil Village Public Library in Kozhikode

A public library in Anakkampoyil village of Kozhikode has earned the title of the district’s first library to have a solar-powered digital hub with computers to help rural readers step into the world of digitalised learning environment.

July 03, 2023. By EI News Network

The solar-powered digital hub is ready to open at V.K. Krishna Menon Public Library at Anakkampoyil in Kozhikode.

A public library in Anakkampoyil village of Kozhikode has earned the title of the district’s first library to have a solar-powered digital hub with computers to help rural readers step into the world of digitalised learning environment.

The amenity intended to minimise the digital divide the green path will be open to villagers.

The project, which was devised to fulfil the entire power needs of the library building through renewable energy, becomes a reality with the help of a group of students from the National Institute of Technology, Calicut (NIT-C), who worked in association with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

The project approved by the IEEE’s International Humanitarian Activities Commission will change the rural library into a green energy zone.

It promotes the spread of knowledge in vulnerable areas and facilitated proper educational resources to create knowledge about problem-solving actions that can respond to climate change.

This facility enables strategies and practices that are upgrading the quality of education, making it more inclusive and reducing barriers to the acquisition of knowledge.

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National Institute of Technology, Calicut

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Solar-Powered Digital Centre

V.K. Krishna Menon Public Library at Anakkampoyil