IIIT-A to organise an international seminar

ALLAHABAD: The Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad (IIIT-A) will organise an international seminar on 'Education, Innovation and Society' on July 10 at the India International Center, New Delhi.

Giving this information, IIIT-A director MD Tiwari said globalization and technological developments has thrown up challenges and opportunities for Indian institutions of higher education. "Globally, innovation has been recognised as a key enabler for sustained economic development, strengthening social development and social cohesion. Hence we have to innovate," he said. This subject requires multi-disciplinary domain experts on one platform to present their perspectives and initiate discussions among the stakeholders on how to design, develop, implement and evolve interlink age so that the society benefits from the transfer of knowledge creation by academic institutions and its subsequent transfer to end user, he added.

The theme of this seminar is to deliberate on interlinkage of education, innovation and society to accelerate Indias integration with the growing global and knowledge based economy. The deliberations of the seminar will include presentations and discussions by experts and participants. The seminar will be particularly helpful to the change environment in government organisations, academia and industry, the administrators of academic institutions, research and development and centres of innovations.