Department of Science & Technology
and
Federation Of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry
Organised
India R & D 2009: ICT(Information and communication technology) Innovations
January 22-23, 2009
FICCI, Federation House
New Delhi
Some of the Speakers were from the following organisations:
- FICCI Innovation Committee
- Erehwon Innovation Consulting
- European Commission, DG Information Society and Media, Belgium
- International Cooperation Division, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India
- Emergency Management and Research Institute
- NIC, Government of India
- IBM India
- Nokia Research Center
- Nature India
- Vu Technologies
- E-learning/E-infrastructure group, Department of Information Technology, Government of India
- TCS
- Indian Angel Network
- World Health Network
- Teleradiology Solutions
- Apollo Telemedicine Networking Foundation
- NCERT
- Advanced Center for Informatics Innovative Learning, IGNOU
Maninder of Team 123oye was present there and noted the following points:
- Apollo eHealth program to reach the inaccessible areas of India
- Cure at home program
- Using mobile platform for education
- ICT helping the physically challenged with specially designed software programs
- Capacity to breakthrough mindsets
- Learn to experiment
- Pioneering and inspirational leadership
- Rural ecommerce
- Rural Broadband- need for info highways – wi-fi/wimax, vehicle mounted connectivity, dynamic frequency
- Knowledge – Values – Skills – Attitude
- Efficient usage of resources
- Eco friendly and low cost bio battery, cow dung based battery, Chlorophyll cells
- Voice Sites(more relevant to India) – analogous to websites on the world wide web. The Spoken Web
- Agriculture – large potential for removing market inefficiencies
- Nokia Life Tools – inform – involve – empower: Targetted towards non urban users in emerging markets
- Controversial: Indian people don’t want Indian products
- How to use ICT innovations
- Create a market for innovative products
Some more points:
- e-governance is application of ICT to governance
- Absence of National ICT Innovation policy in India
- Create conducive environment for promoting ICT entrepreneurship
- Out of Sync Bureaucracy
- Everytime there is an innovation there is a big opportunity
- Concept of Angel Funding: Angel investors can fund your high risk niche products and services
- How to convert job seekers to job providers
- We are churning out programmers rather than innovators
- Need for more mentors
- Seed and early stage financing
- Use of teleradiology
- Need for emergency diagnosis – stroke, cancer
- Shortage of radiologists
- The new age educators should break away from industrial age learning
- Have smart classrooms
- An educated person must be employable