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Government of Andhra Pradesh
 Honorable Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Mr.N.Chandra Babu Naidu (middle) and Executive Director, World Corps, Seattle, USA, Mr.Dwight Wilson,(first from left) interacting with the CIC entrepreneurs during the launch of the CICs at Kuppam, 26 April 2002 |
During 2001-2002, with the support of Government
of Andhra Pradesh and the involvement of the Hon’ble
Chief Minster of Andhra Pradesh Shri N. Chandra Babu Naidu,
World Corps India facilitated setting up of 5 Community
Information Centres (CICs) at the 5 Mandal Headquarters
of Kuppam Constituency, Chittoor District. Kuppam Constituency
comprises of 5 mandals/blocks of Kuppam, Gudupalli, Rama
Kuppam, Santhi Puram and Venkatagiri Kota.
The one year long project has trained 25 WCPs (15 youth,
who had undergone rigorous selection process from these
5 mandals and 10 World Corps staff from 5 developing countries).
The CIC’s are functioning well and have started repaying
their loans. World Corps India continues to monitor the
CICs performance and provide demand-based interventions
to the entrepreneurs of the CICs for business sustainability.
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Hewlett Packard
 Mr. Anand Tawker, General Manager-Asia Pacific Region, e-inclusion and Emerging Market Solutions, Hewlett-Packard, Vancouver, USA and Mr. A.Sharat, Project Officer, Kuppam Area Development Authority, Kuppam launching the CIC at Mallanur, Kuppam, 17 september 2003 |
The multi-national giant, Hewlett Packard
and World Corps India are presently working together in
Kuppam to scale up the present 5 CICs to an additional 10
CICs that will be located in the Gram Panchayat headquarters
spread over the 5 mandals of Kuppam Constituency in Chittoor
District. Hewlett Packard is providing the technology inputs,
services and solutions while World Corps India is providing
the human resources and business development training to
the owners, managers and operators of the CICs. Three Community
Information Centres have been established by youth from
the gram panchyats of Mallanur, Vijalapuram and Mudarumdoddi
of Kuppam constituency. Training was given by World Corps
India and Hewlett Packard provided the technical and grants
support.
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Other Partnering agencies
- Office of the District Collectorate, Chittoor District
- District Poverty Initiatives Program (DPIP), Chittoor District
- District Rural Development Agency, Chittoor District
- Society for Employment and Training (SETVEN), Tirupathi
- Chief Minister’s Empowerment of Youth Office (CMEY), Kuppam
Constituency
- Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC),
Kuppam
- Rural Electric Supply Co-operative Society Ltd., (RESCO),
Kuppam
- Dravidian University, Kuppam
- Centre for Rural Development and Appropriate Technology (CeRDAT),
Sri Venkateshwara University, Tirupathi
- Office of the Kuppam Area Development Authority (KADA), Kuppam
- Rural Development and Self Employment Training Institute,
Anantapur
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