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Public Software for the Public Sector
South India Regional workshop on 'Software Principles for the Public Sector, with focus on Public Education' on 1st and 2nd February, 2010 in Bangalore
UNESCO, e-Governance Department, Department of Public Instruction and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan (Government of Karnataka), Karnataka Jnana Aayoga (Karnataka Knowledge Commission) and IT for Change (ITfC) co-organised the workshop “Software Principles for the Public Sector, with focus on Public Education” on the 1st and 2nd February, 2010 in Bangalore.
The workshop's session plan is as follows: (click on the names to read the synopses and presentations of the resource persons)
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Discussion Topic |
Time |
Resource Persons / Panelists (Chair) |
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Day 1 – Public Software for Public Education |
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Registration |
8.30 - 9.30 |
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Welcome Note |
9.30 – 9.45 |
Sri Gangadhar Dattanal |
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Inauguration |
9.45 |
Sri Harish Gowda |
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Context setting - objectives and methodology |
9.45 – 10.00 |
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Brief presentation and panel discussion: Building a scenario of the digital needs of the public education over the next decade, towards appropriate planning for policy and practice
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10.00 –11.15 |
Sri Manas Chakrabarti (Chair - Ms. Cecilia Barbieri) |
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Case study on Kerala IT@Schools program
Sharing from experiences of ICT programs in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal to identify underlying 'principles' for ICT programs in public education |
11.30 - 13.00 |
Sri Anvar Sadath (Chair - Dr Nagarjuna) |
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Panel Discussion - Making a framework for educational material / content policy arena. Current content policies and practices; what needs to be done |
14.00 - 15.15 |
Dr Nagarjuna |
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Teacher education and ICT |
15.30 - 16.30 |
Prof Veni Madhavan (Chair - Prof. Poonam Batra) |
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Wrap-up: Outlining the critical principles for ICTs in education – policy and program. Making a framework for educational software policy arena |
16.30 - 17.30 |
Dr V Sasi Kumar |
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Day 2 – Public Sector Software Policy and guidelines |
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Concepts, requirements and issues of a Public Sector Software policy, extrapolating from sessions of the previous day on principles of ICTs in the public education system and derving from concrete examples |
10.00 –11.30 |
Sri Parminder Jeet Singh |
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Digital architecture for an inclusive Knowledge Society
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11.30 –13.00 |
Dr M K Sridhar (Chair - Dr Mukhyamantri Chandru) |
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Discussions on issues in current program designs and software development / implementation for public sector in the context of public software principles
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14.00 - 16.00 |
Sri Amit Chakravarty (Chair - Sri Thangavel) |
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Action Planning – Document on principles, architecture of public sector software, Open House and Way forward |
16.00 - 18.30 |
Sri C. Umashankar |