Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education bags social media for empowerment award

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE) has been chosen for the SM4E (social media for empowerment) award instituted by Digital Empowerment Foundation.
“KITE won the 7th SM4E award for leveraging the social media platforms for First Bell digital classes. The selection was from 145 nominations received in seven categories. It was in Innovations @ Covid-19 category that KITE was chosen for the award, which makes it eligible to apply for the next year’s UN World Summit award,” a statement from KITE said on Tuesday.
KITE CEO K Anvar Sadath received the award. KITE has received digital technology sabha award and mBillionth award for the digital classes earlier this year. General education minister V Sivankutty congratulated everyone who worked behind the success and recognition of the First Bell classes, introduced as a digital learning support mechanism at the begging of the last academic year as schools remained close following the Covid-19 outbreak.TNN