The Spoken Tutorial project is funded by the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (ICT), launched by Ministry of Education, erstwhile Ministry of Human Resources and Development, Government of India.

The main objective of this project is to promote IT literacy for education and improve the employment potential of learners in India, using FOSS (free and open source software).  ICT is an important area that provides jobs to a large number of our students. Software creation, electronic design automation (IC design), numerical computing, and modelling and simulation are some of the ICT areas.