Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Sept 11: National Informatics Centre in collaboration with Information Technology and SS Department organized 8th one day technical workshop on National Knowledge Network (NKN) at University of Kashmir, Hazratbal today.
Principal Scientific Advisor, Government of India and Chairman High level Committee NKN, Dr R Chidambaram was the chief guest on the occasion while as Dean Academics Affairs, Kashmir University Prof A M Shah was guest of honour.
Dr. R. Chidambaram, in his address, said that NKN has connected 860 institutions and has set a target to connect over 1500 institutions under various categories throughout the country.
He said the target users for NKN are the institutes engaged in generation and dissemination of knowledge on various areas such as research labs, universities and other institutions of higher learning. “Going forward, it will enable scientists, researchers and students from varied backgrounds and geographers to work closely”, he asserted.
Earlier, State Informatics Officer, NIC J&K Abhay Kumar, in his welcome address, said that NKN is a smart ultra-high bandwidth network which seamlessly interconnects the leading scientific and technological institutions across varied geographical areas. He said NKN also aims to facilitate education in emerging high technology areas like bio and nano technology, cloud computing, collaboration research for climate modeling.
He said NKN is a pan-India ultra high e-governance network for the knowledge sharing among the institutions.
Mr. Kumar hoped that engineers, scientists, scholars, researchers, academicians and officers, who have come from various parts of the country to participate in the workshop will definitely be benefitted and enrich themselves by sharing information and knowledge for advancing human development in critical and emerging areas.
He said NKN philosophy is to encourage, enable, enrich and empower the user community to test and implement innovative ideas without any restriction posed by the network technology and its administration.
Prof. A.M Shah in his address said that in present age three things are fast emerging, which include identification of future requirement, knowledge management and networking. He said focus is linked with the topic of workshop as there is free flow of data from one institution to other which promotes quality research.
Managing Director, NICSI, Rajesh Bahadur, Prof P.S. Dhekne, RRF, BARC, Mumbai and R.S. Mani, Senior Technical Director NIC (Hqrs) also addressed the inaugural session and threw light on the objective of organizing the workshop in the Valley.
Director IT and SS, Prof. S. Mufeed Ahmed proposed vote of thanks on the occasion.
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