Dear GKD Friends, The NIIT you've known so well for these past years is close to crossing a momentous milestone at the end of the second decade of its existence. In the last 20 years NIIT has evolved in more ways than one. From a predominantly education company to an IT Solutions Corporation. From a primarily India based company to one of the top ten software exporters with operations in 38 countries. From the IT education leader in India to the Top 15 IT Trainers in the world (as per the IDC bulletin of June 2001). The journey has been exciting all the way.
On our 20th anniversary we would like to reiterate the commitment we made to the computer literacy cause two decades ago. The spark that we ignited in 1981, is today a fire--a fire we intend fuelling by marking December 2 as World Computer Literacy Day (WCLD). As part of NIIT's commitment to this cause we will be offering free computer training to 20,000 people on December 2, 2001. The recipients of free training will include 8,000 members of the political leadership -- Members of parliament, Members of the State Legislative Assemblies in India and Corporators who will take India forward into the 21st Century--and 12,000 toppers of Class 8, 9, 10 and 11 from 3,000 government schools in India. It will be a historic achievement, never attempted before in the world, and I seek your participation to make this dream a reality. In this context we request you to put the World Computer Literacy Day logo, which you can get from the NIIT website [www.niit.com], on your Web site's home page until December 31st 2001. The logo can be hyper-linked with the the WCLD Web site <http://www.worldcomputerliteracy.net> Through this arrangement a large number of your website visitors will be encouraged to visit the World Computer Literacy Day Web site and get details about December 2, 2001. It will also enable them to post their views on issues related to computer literacy and pledge their support to WCLD through a campaign on the Internet. We hope that you will play a leadership role in this campaign by agreeing to our request. With warm regards, Sanjiv Kataria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sr. Vice President Corporate Communications NIIT Limited, New Delhi Pledge your support to World Computer Literacy Day on December 2, 2001 by clicking on <http://www.worldcomputerliteracy.net> ------------ ***GKD is an initiative of the Global Knowledge Partnership*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.globalknowledge.org>
