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Thiruvananthapuram, August 4,
2002- Kerala’s mega IT event came to a grand
finale today at the Bhavani, Technopark. The last day of the event saw the
culmination of the exhibition and the special seminar on IT enabling services in
Education.
Ms Sarada Muraleetharan IAS, Director of Collegiate Education, chaired this
session. Prof. S S Prabhu, Former Dean, IIT Kanpur, during his presentation said
that global dissemination of IT in Education is the second renaissance in the
history. He also said that today virtual reality has become as reality itself
through education.
Dr Srivatsan, Director IITMK, announced that his institute would be soon
formulating a Kerala Education Grid to promote e-education in order to maximize
the quality of instruction in all colleges and other education centers of
Kerala. “Development of content resource is very important for the success of
this education grid” he said, “this project attempts to squarely take the
challenge of appropriate use of IT and Internet in Education using a knowledge
enabling and learner centric approach.”
Over one-lakh visitors attended the exhibition in the last four days of the
event. The visitors comprised of people from the IT Industry, State Government
officials, students from schools and colleges and general public. More than 70
companies had set up stalls at the exhibition and many of these exhibitors have
been able to conduct successful business during the expo. Exciting schemes were
organized by various companies to attract visitors to their exhibition centers.
The four-day IT spectacle concluded with a Valedictory address by His
Excellency, Sri Sikander Bakht, Governor of Kerala. Sri. Bakht also laid the
foundation for the second phase expansion scheme and honoured select IT
companies for their excellent contribution towards the growth of IT in Kerala.
Sri P K Kunhalikutty, Minister for IT, delivered the keynote address. Sri Vakkom
Purushothaman, Hon’ble Speaker, Kerala Legislative Assembly, delivered the
presidential address. Sri Kiran Karnik, President, NASSCOM, Sri. B V
Jagadeesh, CEO, Netscaler and Sri. V Krishnamurthy, Chief Secretary, Govt. of Kerala
commended the efforts in making IT Kerala 2002 a grand success. |
