ONDC Launches Academy to Educate Sellers and Network Participants

Authorities’s initiative Open Network for Digital Commerce has collaborated with a subsidiary of the Nationwide Inventory Change to launch an academy to offer info to sellers and community contributors about easy methods to conduct e-commerce enterprise. 

Within 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 Community for Digital Commerce (ONDC), Joint Secretary within the Division for Promotion of Business and Inside Commerce (DPIIT) Sanjiv stated.

Citing an instance, he stated a villager with none information of e-commerce can discover ways to make a vendor app (with out technical know-how) with a expertise service supplier to mixture all sellers from a close-by market to make these merchandise accessible on-line.

The academy was launched by ONDC in collaboration with NSE Academy Ltd, a subsidiary of the Nationwide Inventory Change.

Every 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 stated.

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

“The academy is a repository of academic and informative textual and video content material. It’s going to present a curated studying expertise offering steerage and finest practices for a profitable e-commerce journey with fewer setbacks,” he added.

Because the academy grows, the training modules will cater to varied roles inside ONDC, together with programmes for sellers in addition to purchaser community participant, and shall be accessible in a number of Indian languages.

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

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

ONDC Chief Government Officer T Koshy stated the training modules will cater to varied roles inside the community.

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

ONDC, a Part 8 firm, was integrated on December 31, 2021. It’s a DPIIT initiative to create a facilitative mannequin to assist small retailers reap the benefits of digital commerce. It isn’t an software, platform, middleman, or software program however a set of specs designed to foster open, unbundled, and interoperable open networks.