Kerala declared first fully digitally literate State in the country

At the event in Thiruvananthapuram, CM Vijayan also interacted on a video-call with 105-year-old former imam MA Abdullah Moulavi Baqafi, one of the oldest learners, and clicked selfies with two elderly women who had become ambassadors of the campaign.

The ‘Digi Keralam’ campaign of the LSG department was rolled out statewide in 2023 after finding inspiration from Pullampara panchayat in Thiruvananthapuram district which trained all of its residents to become digitally literate and use smartphones for basic purposes. The objectives were to help sections of the public, especially the elderly and those from marginalised communities, get acquainted with internet and smartphones and use them to know more about and access government services which are in the process of being digitalised.

Over 80 lakh households across all rural and urban local bodies in the state were surveyed, as part of which over 21 lakh were identified as ‘digitally illiterate’, 99.98% of whom were trained and eventually passed evaluations. Over 15,000 of those trained were above the age of 90.