A Digital University has been set up in Kerala’s Technocity, Mangalapuram. The Governor of Kerala Arif Mohammed Khan has inaugurated the country’s first Digital University in the state. Kerala University of Digital Sciences, Innovation and Technology (Digital University) is established by upgrading the two-decade old state government’s Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Kerala (IIITM-K). The university is formed with a vision of creating a futuristic institution of higher learning, aspiring to set a global benchmark in Digital technologies and its management, an official statement said.

India’s first Digital University has been started with five schools — School of Computer Science and Engineering; School of Digital Sciences; School of Electronic Systems and Automation; School of Informatics; and School of Digital Humanities and Liberal Arts, covering science, technology and humanities aspects of the Digital world, the statement added.