SHRI
PRAMOD MAHAJAN INAUGURATES CENTRE FOR ADVANCED COMPUTING AT UNIVERSITY
OF MAURITIUS
The Union Minister
for Parliamentary Affairs, Communications and Information Technology
Shri Pramod Mahajan inaugurated the Centre for Advanced Computing
at the University of Mauritius, Port Louis today. He also delivered
the key-note Address on the future of Information Technology and
Partnership between India and Mauritius.
Speaking on the occasion,
Shri Mahajan offered to share India’s experience in undertaking
policy initiatives in expanding IT&Telecom infrastructure,
initiatives of the Government to build a pool of IT professionals
as part of a sustained HRD component of Information Technology,
the key policies of the Government in taking IT to the masses
through expansion of village public telephony and the efforts
to promote Cellular Mobile Services across the length and breadth
of the country. The Minister said that IT as an industry would
always remain multi-functional and multi-sectoral and all policy
initiatives have to be undertaken keeping this in mind. In the
coming decades, the vision of any Government would be to build
a bridge between citizens and institutions of Governance, he added.
The Centre for Development
of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune and the University of Mauritius
had entered into a Memorandum of Understanding in June this year
under which C-DAC proposed to set up a Centre of Excellence to
be called C-DAC School of Advanced Computing (C-SAC) in Mauritius.
The C-SAC so established would be a Centre of premier research,
consultancy and training institution in the field of Information
& Communication Technologies (ICT). It would be a Centre of
Excellence for high quality IT training and related development
activities for Mauritius. It will also help in the development
of human resources by training personnel and building requisite
skills for spreading the use of information technology in Mauritius.
The Centre would also help promote e-governance in partnership
with the University of Mauritius.
