REPORT ON THE COMNET-IT AND
COMPUTER SOCIETY OF INDIA
WORKSHOP ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
FOR BUILDING COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISES

The Workshop was attended by 18 participants including 4 participants from India. A list of participants is shown below. The following countries were represented:

Bangaladesh, Ghana, India, Kenya, Malaysia, Mauritius, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, U.K. and Uganda.

The Workshop participants attended two days of intensive classroom sessions at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. These sessions were conducted by the following IIMA faculty:

Profs. S.C. Bhatnagar, B.H. Jajoo, K.V. Ramani, V. Venkata Rao, and T.P.Rama Rao.

On 12th and 13th the participants attended tutorials organised on the following themes:

• TU101 Internet/Intranet, JAVA, and Distributed Computing
• TU102 Multimedia Applications for Enterprise Intranets: Planning and Implementation
• TU103 GIS and its application in Resource Planning
• TU104 Data Warehousing and Data Mining
• TU201 The World Wide Web: Strategies and Opportunities for Business
• TU202 IT for Organizational Benefits
• TU203 Building Distributed Applications: Tools and Techniques
• TU204 Emerging Trends in LAN/WAN Data Communication Technologies

The bulk of the participants attended the tutorial TU 01 on the first day and TU 201 on the second day.

The participants attended all the plenary sessions held in the Computer Society of India 32nd Annual Convention on 13th morning, 14th morning and 16th morning. A special session was held for the participants on 14th afternoon where Mr. Anand Kumar Peter, Head of the IT Department of Times of India, the largest Newspaper/media company in India made a presentation. The presentation was found to be extremely useful. The participants found all the components of the workshop to be very useful. The feedback on the two day workshop and the tutorials was very positive. A special feature of the Convention was a plenary panel titled "IT for Organisation Excellence: the Commonwealth Country Experience". Four participants served as panelists in this session which was attended by nearly 800 delegates. The presentation by the workshop participants were received very well.

The workshop was inaugurated by Prof. Jahar Saha, the Director of IIMA.

Dr.S. Ramani, NCST, President of CSI and Chairman of Comnet-IT handed certificates of the participation in the concluding session organised on 15th November 1997 afternoon. Besides the academic value addition to the participants, the workshop generated a considerable interest in COMNET-IT. Write up about the event was carried in all the major Newspapers published in India through their editions from Ahmedabad. A write up was also carried in several Newspapers published in the local language.

The contributions of the COMNET-IT and Commonwealth Secretariat were acknowledged in the CSI Convention inauguration, conclusion and in other sessions.

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