ONDC Launches Academy to Educate Sellers and Network Individuals

Government’s initiative Open Network for Digital Commerce has collaborated with a subsidiary of the National Stock Exchange to launch an academy to offer data to sellers and community contributors about easy methods to conduct e-commerce enterprise. 

In the present part, the ONDC Academy will present studying content material in textual content and video codecs to sellers about managing their operations successfully on the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), Joint Secretary within the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) Sanjiv mentioned.

Citing an instance, he mentioned a villager with none information of e-commerce can learn to make a vendor app (with out technical know-how) with a know-how service supplier to combination all sellers from a close-by market to make these merchandise out there on-line.

The academy was launched by ONDC in collaboration with NSE Academy Ltd, a subsidiary of the National Stock Exchange.

Each of the steps within the onboarding course of and related actions have been transformed into interactive movies which have communicated the method in a significant method, Sanjiv mentioned.

In e-commerce, the principle stakeholders embrace sellers, purchaser apps, and logistics suppliers.

“The academy is a repository of educational and informative textual and video content. It will provide a curated learning experience providing guidance and best practices for a successful e-commerce journey with fewer setbacks,” he added.

As the academy grows, the educational modules will cater to varied roles inside ONDC, together with programmes for sellers in addition to purchaser community participant, and can be out there in a number of Indian languages.

The academy will empower sellers and community contributors to make knowledgeable selections, present finest practices to handle the net enterprise effectively — together with content material from trade consultants — and supply a discussion board to hunt views from consultants.

It would additionally allow certification issued by NSE Academy to people finishing an evaluation developed by the institute, which supplies a badge to validate their right understanding of managing operations throughout the community.

ONDC Chief Executive Officer T Koshy mentioned the educational modules will cater to varied roles throughout the community.

It will present interactive movies and studying supplies associated to digital commerce providing programmes in a number of Indian languages.

ONDC, a Section 8 firm, was integrated on December 31, 2021. It is a DPIIT initiative to create a facilitative mannequin to assist small retailers benefit from digital commerce. It will not be an software, platform, middleman, or software program however a set of specs designed to foster open, unbundled, and interoperable open networks.