SYNCHRONISER, a project sponsored by the European Commission (EC) under Framework Programme 7 (FP7), will submit its report titled "Future R&D ICT Priorities for India" to the Department of Electronics and IT, Government of India and the European Commission providing an actionable roadmap for policy coordination and alignment to promote joint ICT research and innovation. The current report on identified Indian future priority topics for ICT research aims to augment the EU-India political dialogue in the ICT domain. The study has identified Indian focus areas in the next 2, 5 and 10 years with regard to technology priorities in ICT R&D using the Delphi method. It is envisioned that the data from this study, amongst others, will serve as a planning input for European Commission, in order to identify technology priority calls for India. The study was conducted by Prof. Mary Mathew of the Indian Institute of Science.
Katja Legisa, Project Coordinator, SYNCHRONISER said, "To predict what a country will do in the near future is a big challenge. Nevertheless, given the growing importance of the ICT in India and world across, internalization of the ICT activity and collaboration between countries in this domain is becoming essential. For reaching this objective, identification and agreement of ICT priorities, first within each country and then between cooperating countries, is the first stepping stone."
Prof. Mary Mathew said, "Two areas of focus emerged from our dialogues with the visionary sample. First, were Core Information and Communciation Technologies, including Internet access, embedded systems, sensors, cloud computing, for example, and second were technologies related to sectors, the first sector of focus being ICT for health care followed by ICT for energy."
