Established in 1985, AISECT is today India's leading educational, training and services network with an unrivalled spread of over 11,000 centres across 27 states and 3 Union Territories in the country. AISECT's multi-purpose centres cover about 6000 panchayats, hundreds of blocks and more than 320 districts. The organization's mission is to reach out to the remotest corner of India and promote ICT based training and services to empower people, generate employment for the youth and unfold entrepreneurship based initiatives to create an inclusive society. Till date, AISECT has transformed the lives of over 10 lakh students through a host of skill enhancement programs and generated over 10,000 entrepreneurs in the country. AISECT has recently tied up with the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) with an aim to skill about 1.3 million youth within 10 years.

AISECT is primarily engaged in the areas of skill development and training, development of models and teaching methodologies to strengthen the non-formal education sector, services dissemination across semi urban and rural India and execution of large e-Governance projects for the central and state governments, all of which are aimed at achieving an objective of addressing the skill gaps pertinent to the emerging needs of a rapidly growing economy. Headquartered in Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), AISECT is an ISO 9001:2008 certified organization which plans to increase its franchisee network to about 15,000 centers and train 3,00,000 students annually within the next five years.

AISECT is a leading Service Centre Agency for the Central Government sponsored Common Services Center (CSC) Project wherein it is setting up 2926 CSCs in Madhya Pradesh, 1487 CSCs in Chhattisgarh and 585 CSCs in Punjab. AISECT is also a part of the Financial Inclusion Scheme wherein it currently works as a Business Correspondent (BC) as well as a Business Facilitator (BF) for the State Bank of India in the CSC districts.

The organization is listed in the World Bank-IIM(A) joint study as one of the most successful initiatives on Information & Computer Technology (ICT) for rural development. Over the years, AISECT has won several prestigious awards including Indian Innovation Award (2005), Golden Icon National e-Governance Award (2005), NASSCOM I.T. Innovation Award (2006), Asian Forum i4D Award (2007), NASSCOM EMERGE 50 Leader Award (2009), TiE Lumis Partners Entrepreneurial Excellence Award (2009), Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award (2010), National CSI Award (2011) and eGov Award for Best ICT in Financial Inclusion (2011).