Information & Communication Technology: Technology Aspects
Circuit Switched Telecom Network (evolution)
Ashok Jhunjhunwala, IIT Madras, India
Packet Switched Data Network and its evolution
K Giridhar, IIT Madras, India
Fibre Optic Communication: Techno economics
Anil Prabhakar & Dr.Balaji Srinivasan, IITMadras, Chennai-32, , India
Satellite Communications
Andrew Thangaraj, IIT Madras, India
Wireless and Mobile Communication (Including WLAN)
Uday B Desai, IIT Mumbai, Mumbai - 400076, India
Multimedia technologies: Voice and Video Coding
Devendra Jalihal, IIT Madras, Chennai -32, India
Multimedia technologies: Entertainment, Education, Tele Health, E-commerce, Voice based service
Multi-lingual technologies
Multimodal Interfaces to the Computer
Hema A. Murthy and C. Chandra Sekhar, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras Chennai , India
C.S. Ramalingam, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras Chennai , India
Srinivasa Chakravarthy, Department of Biotechnology, IIT Madras Chennai , India
Information System Management: Database, Data Mining, Data Warehousing, Search Engine, Voice based Search engine
Display Technologies (ICT and Visualization)
R. Sharan, L.N. Mittal Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur, India
K. R. Sarma, Samtel Color Ltd., New Delhi, India
B. Mazhari and S. S. K. Iyer, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
GIS as a tool for development
Parvatham Venkatachalam, Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, India
Storage Systems and Technologies
Jai Menon, IBM Academy of Technology, San Jose, CA, USA
Clodoaldo Barrera, IBM Systems Group, San Jose, CA, USA
Artificial Intelligence
Pushpak Bhattacharya, IIT Bombay, India
Integrated Circuit Technology
Evolution of Information & Communication Technology and rapidly declining costs
Computer Vision and Information Technology
Subhasis Chaudhuri and Amit Prabhudesai, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India
Telecommunication Networking
Debasish Datta, Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
Information & Communication Technology: Societal and Development Aspects
Natural IT and Resource Management (Water / Land / Energy / Food & Agriculture)
Balaji V, ICRISAT-IN
IT and Production Processes
IT and Work Organizationn & IT and Organization Management
IT and Business Process
Kentaro Toyama, Microsoft
Review of Research on Rural PC Kiosks
Kentaro Toyama, Microsoft Research India
Renee Kuriyan, University of California Berkeley, USA
Savita Bailur, London School of Economics, UK
Nimmi Rangaswamy, Aishwarya Ratan and Rajesh Veeraraghavan, Microsoft Research India
Deepak Menon, Joyojeet Pal and Janaki Srinivasan, University of California Berkeley, USA
IT and Banking
S.S.Satchidananda, IIIT Bangalore, India
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and the Transportation System
Dinesh Mohan, Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
Information Infrastructure - Libraries
Sparse and Rural Area Communication Systems
Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT-Madras, Chennai, India
Sangamitra Ramachander, Consultant Development Economist, IIT - Madras, Chennai, India
IT and Human Resources Development
S Sadagopan, IIIT Banglore, India
Virtual communities in Information Age
Noshir Contractor, UIUC
Privacy and Security in Global Information society
Efforts of International bodies in IT Areas (World Bank, UN, ITU, UNDP) for ICT
Madan Mohan Rao, Tech Sparks
IT and Project Implementation
Reinventing Computing for the next billion users
Rajesh Jain
Key Issues in Combating the Digital Divide
Kumar Richa, History, Anthropology, Science, Technology, and Society Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Pal Joyojeet, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California at Berkley, USA
Ngai James, Sloan Undergraduate Program in Management Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
IT for Governance
IT for Rural Trade
Regulatory Reform and Rural Roll-Out of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)
Rohan Samarajiva and Ayesha Zainudeen, LIRNEasia, 12 Balcombe Place, Colombo 08, Sri Lanka
Free - Open Source Software for Development
C. N. Krishnan and Kenneth Gonsalves, National Resource Centre for Free/Open Source Software, (NRCF/OSS), AU-KBC Research Centre, Anna University –M. I. T. Campus, Chennai, India
