[LINK] Australia - India Knowledge Network
Tom Worthington
tom.worthington at tomw.net.au
Thu Sep 23 10:51:10 AEST 2010
Greetings from the last day of the World Computer Congress 2010 in
Brisbane. Professor SV Raghavan just gave a keynote address on "National
Knowledge Network of India: An Instrument of Social Change".
Professor Raghavan explained that while the world has a view of India as
a high technology nation, that technology is concentrated in relatively
few urban areas. Most of India is in villages in rural areas. There is a
stronger regional government, than in countries such as Australia.
At question time Professor Raghavan mentioned he had discussed with the
now Australian Prime Minister a project of a 10 Gbit connection between
India and Australia being worked on by QUT. Professor Raghavan envisions
this communications link being used for joint teaching of university
student between India and Australian institutions, as well as for
research collaboration (Australia and India signed an agreement on
education in April).
Given that the ongoing existence of the current Australian government
depends on justifying the National Broadband Network, it will be
interesting to see if the Minister for Broadband takes up this idea of
broadband for education as an export industry to Asia, in his closing
speech to WCC2010 at 4:45pm today.
More in my blog at:
<http://blog.tomw.net.au/2010/09/national-knowledge-network-of-india.html>.
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Tom Worthington FACS CP HLM, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150
PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia http://www.tomw.net.au
Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science, The
Australian National University http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/COMP7310/
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