Wednesday 22 June 2011

IIIT-A to organise an international seminar

The Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad (IIIT-A) will organise an international seminar on 'Education, Innovation and Society' on July 10 at the India International Center,New Delhi. 

Giving this information, IIIT-A director MD Tiwari said globalization and technological developments has thrown up challenges and opportunities for Indian institutions of higher education. "Globally, innovation has been recognised as a key enabler for sustained economic development, strengthening social development and social cohesion. Hence we have to innovate," he said. This subject requires multi-disciplinary domain experts on one platform to present their perspectives and initiate discussions among the stakeholders on how to design, develop, implement and evolve interlink age so that the society benefits from the transfer of knowledge creation by academic institutions and its subsequent transfer to end user, he added. 

The theme of this seminar is to deliberate on interlinkage of education, innovation and society to accelerate Indias integration with the growing global and knowledge based economy. The deliberations of the seminar will include presentations and discussions by experts and participants. The seminar will be particularly helpful to the change environment in government organisations, academia and industry, the administrators of academic institutions, research and development and centres of innovations. 

The seminar will be held in four sessions. First session will focus on overview of interlinkage between education, innovation and society through presentations by experts followed by a panel discussion and identification of issues that we need to address. 

Prof Yash Pal, prominent scientist and educationist; T Ramasami, secretary Department of Science and Technology; Kamlesh N Agarwala, Prof GN Pandey, Indian Institute of Information Technology-Allahabad; Prof SV Raghavan, Network Systems Laboratory Department of Computer Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Madras; Prof Shridhar Dwivedi, Hamdard Institute of Medical Sciences and Research; Pramod Joshi, Project Director; Shiv Nadar Foundation Noida; ML Goyal Director MAIT Delhi Rohini, Delhi; Sudhir K Jain, Director, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar Vishwakarma Govt Engg College Complex Chandkheda, Visat-Gandhinagar Highway Ahmedabad; Deepak Bhatnagar, Head, Centre for International Trade in Technology(CITT),Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), (Deemed University under Ministry of Commerce &Industry) will be the resource persons.

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