DIC Core

Earlier the company was known as ‘Media Lab Asia‘. It has been renamed ‘Digital India Corporation .Media Lab Asia (MLA) was set up in 2001, in collaboration with MIT Media Lab and Department of Electronics & Information Technology, Govt. of India as a not-for-profit organization under Section 25 of Companies Act, 1956. The purpose was to explore ways in which technology could be identified, modified or generated afresh to diffuse their use throughout India on an affordable and sustainable basis. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) was recognized as being a powerful enabler with much leverage to bring about change to lower the gap between the lowest strata of society, and others through education, access to equipment and technology resulting in
empowerment.