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- Indo-French Cyber University Project
This is a joint project with Toulouse University Network, France. As a part of this project, a videoconferencing facility has been setup at DISC.
- Creation and Maintenance of an Universal Digital Library
A project to digitise a million books
One scanner is placed at DISC to begin scanning of the old books and hosting them on the web.
- S & T Web Site (Vigyan server)
The Vigyan web site accessed by the URL http://www.vigyan.org.in contains a comprehensive database of information related to S&T in India like
- Policy and Plan Documents
- Database of Institute and Faculties
- Library Material Module
- R&D in India and Funding Agencies
- Database of Indian scientists
- Professional Societies in India.
- Database of Expert S&T Manpower
- Indian S&T News Articles
- Database of Public Interest
- Annual Project Reports & R&D Statistics
- Periodicals and Newsletters
- Projects and Facilities, Select Courseware
Contents of the web site are developed over the past few years jointly by the IISc faculty, staff of the project and content developers funded by NISSAT.
- MSRI (Berkeley) Video Lectures
Streaming Videos of Lectures by eminent mathematicians and other scientists. This is a mirror of the Mathematical Science Research Institute, Berkeley, video website.
- Educational outreach programme
School children from Disadvantaged schools are exposed to Internet facilities at DISC.
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