Draft report of

13.9 Opportunities on the horizon

Falling cost of hardware

Falling cost of bandwidth

High growth in mobile density

Availability of EduSAT

Availability of infrastructure for narrowcasting using DD HPT &LPT

Rapidly expanding OFC network for broadband connectivity terrestrially

Advent of very low power consumption connectivity & computing devices

Abundance of knowledge on the internet

Rapidly expanding network of cyber kiosks and cyber café

Threats looming large:

1. 
   Growing knowledge divide may soon endanger the fabric of social harmony
   
2. 
   Other countries, managing their educational infrastructure well, may provide initial lead to their children which might get multiplied as the time progress.
   

3. 
   If delayed, other countries may wrest the IT based initiatives from us
   

Keeping this balance sheet of SWOT in mind, and in order to address all these issues, a National Mission needs to be mounted to provide help to all the learners in the country, irrespective of their academic or age backgrounds. The components of this mission should be: