PROMOTION OF TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION BY INDIAN GOVERNMENT

Evolution of Technology

Framework of Indian Government Polity system

Indian polity System

Legislature

Judiciary

Executive

Basic Topic of Consideration

Technology affect on Education sector

Available Technology which can be used in India

Major Steps by government

1) India Launches New Missiles With Nuclear War Head Capabilities

The successful test launch of Agni-5, the new

long range intercontinental ballistic missile with 5,000 kilometers range to reach key Chinese and European cities, is another feather in the cap of Indias defense technologies.

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This involves the capability to re-enter the

Earths atmosphere overcoming high temperatures and reach designated targets accurately The missile can carry nuclear warheads and is also programmed to split to reach multiple targets

India Announces $1 Billion Innovation Fund

The fund with an initial seed capital of $20

million from the national government will focus on technological innovations relevant to tackling some of Indias unique challenges. Innovation has got a new tag in India: Inclusive Innovation. Indias Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has grandly announced the launch of a $1 billion initiative.

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Inclusive Innovation Fund (IIIF) which will focus on fostering technological innovations aimed to

serve the needs of millions of poor citizens in the country. The $1 billion (Rs. 5,000 crore) IIIF will start with a seed capital of $20 million (Rs. 100 crore) announced by the Prime Minister during the release of the first report of the National Innovation Council in New Delhi on November 15, 2011. The Council is headed by Dr. Sam Pitroda, an advisor to the PM on innovation.

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Indias Prime Minister said technological

innovations that happened in the country in areas such as space sciences, atomic energy and automobiles have mainly benefited only the rich sections of the society. He admitted that tech innovations have by and large bypassed the vast majority of the nations poor citizens and hence there was a need to address this segments needs.

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Dr. Singh said: Innovation can be a game-

changer to move from incremental change to radical change. And therefore, it is our resolve to build an enabling environment for innovation to flourish. Since his government has been talking about inclusive growth, the fund itself got the inclusive innovation tagged to it.

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Summing up the problem, the Prime Minister

said: The set of challenges that we as a nation face is not only diverse, but also unique. It is only through creativity and innovation, by coming up with novel solution appropriate to Indian context, that we can meet these challenges effectively.

Innovation Program in Orissa

Vinod Khoslas 'Cool Dozen' Tech Innovation Sectors

Celebrated tech innovator and venture

capitalist Vinod Khosla believes that future innovations in the information technology sector will happen in a dozen new areas. 1.Technologies that reduce data overload worlds first interest network. 2.Tools that cater to the emotions of peopleYou name it, we will give it, is their mantra.

3.Education - provides a comprehensive access to curriculum-based content. 4.SocialNext - social networks will spring up for specific purposes. 5. Tools for sharing ones interest- meebo, the company which links ones friends who are on various social networks at one place and provides easy tools to share ones Web experiences instantly with ones like minded people.

6. Health - users will be able to do away with the help of doctors and future companies may use tools to process available information from ones symptoms and give instant diagnosis. 7. Near field computing- Verayo which provides non-clonable, personal identity tags based on RFID technology

8.Publishers - tools developed by Storify, for example, picks up content posted by people on various social networking pages and turns them into easy-to-read stories automatically. The days of professional writers and editors may soon be over, warned Khosla! Snip.it is another prominent player in this arena. The tools provided by snip.it lets one to comment about anything one sees on the Web, gather all the relevant weblinks, termed snips, and also access what other people have commented on the same topic.

9. The next version of television will be here shortly as TV 2.0 which will turn current passive television viewer into instant participants. A large number of television viewers today are concurrently accessing information on one or more computing device such as smart phone or a tablet. This phenomenon is called second screen. Khosla said a new company, Second Screen Networks, provides apps such as digital ads with lots of applications synchronized to the one that is seen by the viewer on the screen. For example, if a Dominos commercial is on the television screen, the order form for pizzas from Dominos will be served simultaneously on the second screen of the viewer. Similarly, augmented reality apps are available on smart phones recreating things in virtual reality for the viewer.

10. Big data analytics- corporate users will need simple solutions to handle the deluge of data they generate from various sources. An example is the financial service provided by Billguard which alerts a user about all the hidden charges, and misuse of ones credit and debit cards. Another prominent company is Recorded Future which uses predictive analytical tools to provide information about all the futuristic development likely in any field of activity.

11. Utility segment - SeatMe is a San Francisco-based startup that is developing a wide range of software solutions to revolutionize the restaurant industry Ringshuffle, which allows a person to temporarily shuffle ones mobile number to keep it private and inaccessible without deactivating it Weatherbill,is another company that provides tech solutions to help people and organizations to adapt appropriately to climate change.

12.Things that simplify the happenings in the marketplace for companies and individuals make the 12th spot on Khoslas cool dozen list. A promising player here is the Bangalorebased Interviewstreet, founded in 2009 by Vivek Ravisankar and K Harishankaran. The amazing range of software puzzles and other tricky questions developed by InterviewStreet help software companies to sift the best programming talent quickly.

Shaping the future of aspiring India

Science, Technology & Innovation(STI) have emerged as the major drivers of national development globally. As India aspires for

faster, sustainable and inclusive growth, the Indian STI system, with the advantages of a large demographic dividend and the huge talent pool, will need to pay a defining role in achieving these national goals.

Need for a Science, Technology and Innovation Policy

Scientific research utilizes money to generate

knowledge and by providing solutions, innovation converts knowledge into wealth and/or value. Innovation thus implies S&T based solutions that are successfully deployed in the economy. India has declared 2010-2020 as the Decade of Innovation. The policy aims to bring fresh perspectives to bear on innovation in the Indian context.

STI Policy: A new paradigm

STI can exist separately on their own in disconnected spaces. But it is their integration

that leads to new value creation. There is therefore the need to create the necessary framework for enabling this integration in identified priority areas by exploiting endogenous resources, strenghts and capacities. Science, technology and innovation for the people is the new paradigm of the Indian STI enterprise.

Investment in R & D
Global investments in STI are estimated at

$1.2 trillion as of 2011. Indias R&D investment is less than 2.5% than this and is currently under 1% of the GDP. Increasing Gross Expenditure in Research & Development to 2% of the GDP has been a national goal for sometime.

Promoting Excellence and Relevance in R&D

Ensuring sustainable pipeline of talented

youth for science is a challenge. India has mounted some significant initiatives for attracting talent to science and careers with research. The policy framework will further enable school science education reforms by improving teaching methods, science curricula, motivating teachers and schemes for early attraction of talent to science.

Technology In upcoming Future

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An emerging scientific power like India needs

to ensure that its increasing public investment in science is directed at public, social and national needs rather than selling its scientific and innovation talents to the highest bidder.

 India needs more frugal, distributed, affordable

innovation that produces more frugal cost products and services that are affordable by people at low levels of incomes without compromising the safety, efficiency, and utility of the products. The country also needs innovation processes that are frugal. in terms of resources required and these products and services must also have a frugal impact on the earths resources and must be designed to be environmentally sustainable. Innovations in India hence need to cast a wider net to benefit more and more people who are currently marginalized by the system.

 A holistic view of the science, technology,

and innovation eco-system can ensure best points for intervention in the system. Stimulating this eco-system requires enablers in the form of policies, strategies, novel ideas, and catalysts to effectively meet the challenges in the system. The disease of corruption should be eliminated completely from the system.

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step in the reverse direction. Also, in the name of protecting publicly funded IP, it will make the process of research even more bureaucratic ridden and only help in stifling research rather than promote creativity and innovation.

 India should take the following steps in order to take

its Scientific development to a higher level:

Providing an enrichment of Knowledge base Incentivizing R&D in Public and Private Sector Improving Governance in S&T Institutions Promoting Collaborations through Clusters Providing Supportive Financial System Providing Platform for Best Practices and Innovations Improving the Flow of Technology Collaborations of university, industry, and Scientific Establishment .

International Technology Awards

The Ernesto Illy Trieste Science Prize The Prize,

reserved for scientists from the developing world

The World Food Price - The World Food Prize is the

foremost international award recognizing the achievements of individuals who have advanced human development by improving the quality, quantity or availability of food in the world. The 2012 World Food Prize will be awarded to Dr. Daniel Hillel for his role in conceiving and implementing a radically new mode of bringing water to crops in arid and dry land regions - known as micro-irrigation.

Indian Technology Awards

Padma Shri (Padmashree) It is the fourth

highest civilian award in the Republic of India. It is awarded by the Government of India to citizens of India to recognize their distinguished contribution in various spheres of activity including the Arts, Education, Industry, Literature, Science, Sports, Medicine, Social Service and Public Affairs..

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TREMAP (Technology Refinement and

Marketing Programme) - Indian government in order to enable IP economy has launched it to recognize the innovative potential of Indian nationals and to encourage the innovator community for making their innovations more practical and relevant to the industrial and societal needs. The objective of the award is to help commercialization of patented technologies

 Web Ratna Awards - The Web Ratna Awards,

constituted by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, acknowledges exemplary initiatives/practices of various states/UTs in the realm of e-governance.

Nobody can be left in any doubt as to the importance of innovation for prosperity upon reading that people living in the first decade of the twentieth century did not know modern dental and medical equipment, penicillin, bypass operations, safe births, control of genetically transmitted diseases, personal computers, compact discs, television sets, automobiles, opportunities for fast and cheap worldwide travel, affordable universities, central heating, air conditioning . . . technological change has transformed the quality of our lives.

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