Seamless access to IT education for all girls inhigh schools is the immediate goal. The ultimategoal is empowering them to lead the initiative fora Seamless Society.

Boys outnumber girls two to one at the high school level. The perception that women do not earn, andthat their education merely adds to costs, makesresource-strapped parents forgo their education.Affirmative action in favour of girls was, therefore,necessary. The social truism held forth by the LatePrime Minister, Ms. Indira Gandhi, that educating a man leads to education of a single individual whereas educating a woman leads to education of the whole family was another reason to identify girls as Change Agents.

Due to prolonged neglect, the Chhattisgarh region was carved into a State on November 1, 2000. Itspeople had long been on the wrong side of the DevelopmentalDivide and there was, therefore, a determinationto ensure that a similar Digital Divide should notexist in the State. The IT Vision of the State was,accordingly, the creation of a Knowledge Societywhere access to information and knowledge would besymmetric amongst all seekers and users, and where there would be no islands of elitism or conclaves of wisdom. For this to happen, every citizen must feel comfortable in accessing information through IT - directly or throughintermediaries. With this in view, a strategy wasconceived wherein ISS volunteers would serve as ahuman network that would coalesce with the technologicalnetwork under CHO i CE to create the architecture of a seamless networkgoing beyond 'last mile connectivity' to 'last personconnectivity'.