Modi to open prestigious e-Governance conferences on Monday
October 16, 2011
Ahmedabad, 16 October, 2011
Computer Society of India (CSI), Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and Nirma University in collaboration with Department of Science & Technology, Government of Gujarat are jointly organizing two prestigious conferences on e-Governance from 17th Oct to 18th Oct 2011. The list of speakers comprises of IT Secretaries from across India, faculties from premier institutes like IIM and IIT, top executives from NIC, NRHM, ICT, UID-AADHAR, CSI, IMNU, NREGA and industry leaders from IT companies viz. TCS, Oracle, CISCO, Microsoft and others.
The conference will be inaugurated on 17th Oct by honorable CM Shri Narendra Modi. Mr R. Chandrashekhar, Secretary, Department of IT, Ministry of Communication & Information Technology shall be the Guest of Honour at the event and will also chair the session on ‘Inclusive Growth through Gov 2.0’ at the first Plenary Session of the conference.
Sharing details about the two conferences, Mr Ravi Saxena, ACS, Department of Science & Technology, Govt of Gujarat said, “ ICEG-2011 is the eighth event in a series with earlier events held at Colombo, Lahore and New Delhi. The First International Conference on e-Governance was inaugurated by the honorable President Dr Kalam in 2003. Since 2006, Special Interest Group on e-Governance of Computer Society of India (CSI) has been an active partner with IIT Delhi in co-hosting ICEG. A significant milestone in the e-governance arena, the conference promises to be an invigorating confluence of the best brains from the academia and the industry. Scientists, faculty and students from prestigious universities across the globe have expressed a keen desire to be part of this mammoth event. Major information technology solution providers have assured industry participation. And most importantly, key government officers and NGO / community volunteers have guaranteed strong representation of the user community. Given the presence and support of experts across the globe, the conference promises to be an important opportunity of sharing research findings and learning from current e-governance experiments.”
“The National e-Governance Knowledge Sharing Summit is an annual event organized by Computer Society of India’s Special Interest Group on eGovernance (SIGeGOV). The summit aims to provide a forum for policy makers, practitioner, industry leaders and academicians to deliberate, interact and develop an actionable strategy for transparent and good governance. This is the third in the series of such summit being hosted by Government of Gujarat at Ahmedabad.” Mr Saxena explained.
While ICEG is meant for academicians and KSS for industry practitioners like State Government Executives organizing both the events parallely is to enable the academicians to interact with the practitioners. Sharing the objective of KSS, Mr Saxena said, “To grow rapidly and successfully, there is a need to respond proactively to the changing environment. This essentially calls for strengthening the capabilities, seizing and exploiting the opportunities. There is an inherent need to explore and share success stories, best practices and achievements spread across the country for better implementation of e-Governance initiatives. Based on the theme – ‘Transforming Government and enabling Citizens’, the summit will provide a forum for discussion among experts from administration, industry and academia.”
More than 100 speakers of national and international repute shall be participating in the conference and will speak on diverse topics concerning e-Governance. Both these events are aimed at providing a forum for policy makers, practitioners, industry leaders and academicians to discuss research findings, strategies, policies and technologies in the field of e-Governance at National level. In all approximately 98 papers have been received out of which 4 papers are from the UK and 1 each from USA, Australia and South Africa. All the papers are compiled and presented in a volume each successive year.
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