Joint ITU-GISFI-DS-CTIF
Standards Education Workshop
(Aalborg, Denmark, 8-9 October 2012)
Education and Standardization in
India, way ahead.
Prof. S.S. Inamdar,
Secretary, Vishwaniketan; Trustee,
GISFI
ssinamdar31@rediffmail.com
Aalborg, Denmark, 8-9 October 2012
• Indian context –
Education, Industry & Standardization.
• CTIF India, GISFI
• Vishwa-Niketan, I4CT
• Future plans
 500+ Universities in India, we need 1775 by 2020.
 3200+ Engineering colleges , More than 1.2 million seats.
 10 million students appearing 12th/HSC. The Client- not
well informed.
 In 2015, “Knowledge Commission of India” estimates 15
million students passing HSC, 2 million aspirants for
Engineering Education, can we provide them opportunity
of excellent learning, and then employment?
 Limited innovation, research, IPRs and Product
Development.
 Producing standards minded graduates-obviously not
much.
Employability Potential of graduates ?
 Scope for improvement of quality of Teacher ?
 Usefulness to society – the basic Agenda of research ?
 What is investment to patents – ratio of India / Other countries ?
 How many commercial Technology products are based on Indian
Research ?
 Why only about 2 % Indian Engineers are ‘ Software Architects’ ?
Who will develop products for critical Indian market?
 Project / Problem Based Learning (PBL) and Entrepreneurships .
 Collaborations for mutual benefits, global Business models ?
 CTIF, GISFI and many more initiatives of this kind !
 Huge market opportunities, GDP growth of 6%
for next 10 years, 24% growth in middle class
by 2020.
 Global solutions for local requirements-missing.
 Very few established networks in Industry – R & D –
Academic institutes, in true sense.
 Industry aware about standardization process,
efficient use.
 Local, less expensive products need to be
developed
CTIF
India
GISFI
VISHWA
NIKETAN
EU/Other
Projects
Standardization
Standerdisation
I4CT
Research &
Development
 GISFI Collaborations:
o ETSI, ARIB and ITU-T.
 Approvals:
o Govt. of India has given recognition on July 7th , 2010.
 Working groups:
o Future Radio Networks
o IoT
o Green ICT spectrum
o Special Interest Group
o Service Oriented Network
Members and Supporters
Members
• Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
• Vihaan Networks Limited (VNL)
• Tejas Networks
• Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI)
• Communication Multimedia And Infrastructure
(CMAI) Association of India
• NIKSUN
• NEC
• Ericsson
• Motorola
• Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN)
• HUAWEI
• Samsung
• VERISERVE
• GIOT
• WIP Labs
• IIT- Hyderabad
• IIIT-Allahabad
• Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies,
Hyderabad, India
• Sinhgad Technical Education Society
• HMR Institute of Technology and Management
• Birla Institute of Technology
• Individual members from Indian industries, operators
and academic institutions
May 2012, Aalborg, Denmark
Collaborators and Supporters
• Supported by Telecommunication Engineering
Centre (TEC), DoT, Government of India
• Supported by Telecom Equipment
Manufacturers Association of India (TEMA)
• ITU-T Sector Member
• ETSI
• ARIB
• TTC
• TIA
• WWRF
• IEEE in process
• GSC (invited as observer in China and Canada)
• CJK (invited as a participant in Japan)
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Alborg University, Denmark.
University of Rome, Italy.
National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
University of Malaga, Spain.
University of Aveiro, Portugal.
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands.
Flensburg University, Germany.
University of Zagreb, Croatia.
Total 42 fellowships in UG 16, PG 08, Ph. D. 08, Post Ph. D. 04,
Teaching Staff 06 for all over India. Social / Cultural exchange.
 Learning in PBL Environment at Aalborg University,
Denmark, Tor-Vergata, Italy and other universities.
3 months free fellowships in CTIF, Princeton University, US
for extra-ordinary students.
 Product development based, IPR oriented activities, strong
Industry Interface.
3 months / year in Europe, remaining 9 months at parent
institute, research follow-up skipe meetings with supervisors
fortnightly, Research labs at I4CT, India.
 Areas of Interest : Telecom, Electrical / Mechanical Engg,
Energy, Computer Engg, Network Security, Environment,
Robotics, Psychology, PBL.
Why not a strong curriculum for standards?
 More than 24 scholars already completing / in process.
Selection strictly on merit (Research proposal, technical
interview.
Typical M. S.- Ph. D. Programme
Duration of
Programme
3 months
3 months
10 months
2 months
Place
(I4CT)
(AIT/Tor
Vergata/AAU)
(I4CT,India)
(AIT/TOR
Vergata/AAU)
Work
Descriptions
Selection of
candidates by
joint evaluation
process, course
work by faculty
(AIT/AAU India/
any other)
domain
identification.
Course Work
Literature
Survey
Problem
definition (MS)
Course work
Lab work
Literature
review Course
Work (need
based)
Project
Implementation
+
publication
High end
laboratory
work
MS Thesis
submission
And award of
degree
Typical M. S.- Ph. D. Programme
Duration of
Programme
3 months
3 months
27 months
6 months
Place
(AAU)
Any where in
the world
(I4CT, India)
(AAU/Princeto
n)
Work
Descriptions
Ph. D. Problem
Definition
+
Course work
+
State of Art
/ Survey
Any industry /
University
assignment
(Final problem
definition)
Course work
+
Project
Implementation
+
Publications
Higher level
experiments,
Lab work,
Patenting,
Publications.
Thesis writing
and
submission
And award of
degree
 Outcome of collaborations with AAU, CTIF, GISFI.
 Registered Trust / Society under Public Trust Act / Society
regulation in India.
 Investment of Rs. 250 millions already provided.
 Fully transparent, ethical, aspiring ‘World Class’ institution .
 Already in collaboration with GIFI, CTIF, Industry members,
few
European / US universities for research, Development,
teaching –
learning .
I4CT and Centre of excellence in PBL – immediate proposals.
I4CT
• Institute to create ‘Ready to use’ manpower
for Industry at international standards.
• A campus in 21 Acres of land on expressway
close to proposed international airport, Navi
Mumbai.
• Engineer, Professionals, Industry
entrepreneurs, eminent educationalists on
board.
• Incubation centre to create technology suitable to
local situations, product development, testing,
consultancy.
• Create manpower for research, applications with
strong Industry Interface.
• Ready to work on curriculum in education
standardization, standard development,etc.
 To
encourage small / medium size ‘start-up’ companies in collaboration
with global industry / Universities for an identified area of operations.
 Create slim & fit institute partner network of CTIF global, GISFI for UG /
PG academic programs, PBL Centre of Excellence and product development
oriented Ph. D. courses to create
local applications with global
perspectives.
Start collaborative need based PG courses relevant to industry for ‘Ready
to use’ manpower
Provide infrastructure for Research, Product development consultancy for
business creation and development to Industry.
PERSPECTIVE VIEW