The Workshop was organised by the Indira Gandhi National Open University in collaboration with the Indian AdultEducationAssociation, the International Institute of Adult and Lifelong Education and the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning.
Recognising the existence of these socio-economic and psychological barriers to education, the German AdultEducationAssociation (GAEA) initiated the Ich-will-lernen (I want to learn) Programme in an effort to provide functionally illiterate adults and youths an opportunity to learn how to read and write through the use of the internet.