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Advisory and Consultancy Activities
 | Worked as a Consultant in the areas of Computer Graphics, CAD/CAM and
Solid Modeling at Shape Data Ltd., Cambridge, U.K., in 1980-81. |
| Have served as a member of many high level national committees concerned
with the acquisition and application of computer-based technologies in
various disciplines. The more significant of these are listed below : |
- Member of the Technical Advisory Committee for the computerisation of
the mapping activities of the Survey of India, set up by the Secretary,
Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, (1982-1989).
Helped prepare a detailed project proposal for the setting up of a Modern
Cartographic Centre with assistance from UNDP. Also to prepare the
detailed requirements specification for the cartographic systems for
installation in the Digital Mapping Centre at Dehradun. (1985)
- Was the Team Leader for systems evaluation and factory acceptance
testing of Survey of India's Digital Mapping System (worth over 2.5 M US
$) acquired from Intergraph Corp. USA. (1989)
- Was a Government of India Representative for the Mid-term Evaluation and
also two subsequent evaluations of the UNDP sponsored Project, Modern
Cartographic Centre. (1990, 1991 and 1993)
- Was a Member of the National Team which toured Japan for investigating
the needs of Multi-media centre for documentation of Arts and Culture
related information. (1989)
- Member of the Advisory Committee set up by the Computer Society of India
to draft a National Information Technology Policy for India, for review by
the Government of India.
- Chairman of the Standards Committee set up by the Department of
Electronics, Government of India for the Indian language coding addressing
compatability issues with respect to Unicode and ISO standardisation
efforts.
- National Project Consultant for the UNDP project on "Setting up of
a Multimedia Documentation Centre for Art and Culture Docuymentation"
at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts in Delhi.
- Chairman of the (SRIG MLC) SEARCC’s (South East Asian Regional
Computer Confederation) Regional Interest Group on Multilingual Computing
| Have provided expert advice to a large number of industries in the country
in the areas of Graphics, CAD/CAM and Electronic Publishing. |
| Member of the Standing Technical Group set up by the Government of India
for advising and evaluating the information technology related projects
carried out by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts. (1991
onwards) |
| Member of the National Advisory Committee on Computer Graphics set up by
the Secretary, Department of Electronics, Government of India. (1993
onwards) |
| Have undertaken expert consultancy missions for United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP) and also for United Nations Industrial Development
Organisation (UNIDO). Such missions usually require one to visit the site of
a UN aided project and provide professional consultancy on specialised
topics to the executing agency. |
- UNIDO Expert in the area of Computer Graphics and Standards (1987), for
providing consultancy to the State Centre for CAD in Sofia, Bulgaria.
- UNIDO Expert in the area of Computer Aided Design and Manufacture
(1988), for providing consultancy to the State Centre for CAD in Sofia,
Bulgaria.
- UNDP Expert for providing consultancy to the Modern Cartographic Centre
in Dehradun, India. (1992)
- UNDP Expert for carrying out the feasibility study and also to prepare
the project proposal for setting a Multi media Documentation Centre at the
Indira Gandhi Centre for the Arts, in the Departments of Arts and Culture,
Government of India, New Delhi.
| Also provide advice to venture capital funding agencies like the
Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI), Small Industries Development
Bank of India (SIDBI) and the Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation
of India (ICICI). This advice is usually in the form of review of project
proposals received by these organisations. ICICI projects are usually joint
proposals between a group in the USA and a group in India. |
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