Dr. PRIYA RANJAN TRIVEDI IS PIONEER IN PERCEIVING THE ROLE OF COMPUTERS IN GOVERNMENT
New Delhi, May 11, 2020 (National Technology Day)
Inaugurating a national level Webinar on the Role of
Computers in bringing productivity and efficiency in the
Government Systems, the President of the Confederation of
Indian Universities (CIU) and Chairman of the Institute of
Information Technology (India) recalled that he had
successfully organized a National Seminar on "Computers in
Government" 35 years ago on 12th December 1985 which was
inaugurated by the then Governor of Bihar Hon'ble Shri P.
Venkatasubbaiah and attended by more than 300 experts of
Computers and Information Technology from the Central and
the State Governments besides Professors and other Faculty
Members from selected Colleges and Universities from South
Asia.
Dr. Priya Ranjan Trivedi inaugurating the 29th National
Technology Day on 11 May 2020
While presenting the theme during the deliberations on the
effective role of computerization in bringing productivity
in the Central and the State Governments, Public Sector
Organizations, Dr. P R Trivedi stressed the need for
preparing a competent cadre of hardware and software experts
for taking care of the manpower needs by providing effective
training in the areas of computer operations, computer
programming, computer maintenance, computer applications,
informatics, computing techniques etc.
The Governor Shri P. Venkatasubbaiah complemented the
efforts jointly made by Dr. Priya Ranjan Trivedi and Dr.
Uttam Kumar Singh, the pioneers in the area of computer
education and training in the country who had imported
latest computers way back in 1979 for the Department of
Computer Sciences at the Indian Institute of Business
Management (IIBM), Patna.
1985 : Dr. Priya Ranjan Trivedi (35) and the Governor of Bihar Shri P. Venkatasubbaiah discussing important issues relating to computerisation and its perceived effects relating to productivity in different Departments and Public Sector Organization under the Government of India and the State Governments.
Placing his views on the auspicious occasion of the 29th
National Technology Day 2020, Dr. Priya Ranjan Trivedi said
that developments in computing are driving the
transformation of entire systems of production, management,
and governance. He further added that computers are
everywhere we touch, all day long. We still have an image of
computers as being rectangular objects either on a desk, or
these days in our pockets; but computers are in our cars,
they are also in our thermostats, they are in our
refrigerators. Actually increasingly computers are no longer
objects at all, but they suffuse fabric and virtually every
other material. We really need to care about what the future
of computing holds because it is going to impact our lives.
Biological computing addresses how the body itself can
compute, how we can think about genetic material as
computing. You can think of biological computing as a way of
computing RNA or DNA and understanding biotechnology as a
kind of computer.
The future of computing as a convergence of the biological,
the physical and the digital (and the post-digital quantum),
using as examples 3D-printing, biotechnology, robotics for
prosthetics, the internet of things, autonomous vehicles,
other kinds of artificial intelligence, one can see the
extent of how life will change. There is a need to make sure
that these developments benefit the entire society, not just
the most wealthy members of society who might want these
prosthetics, but every person who needs them.
All technologists need to keep in mind a multi-level,
multi-part model of technology that takes into account the
technological but also the social, the cultural, the legal,
all of these aspects of development. All technologists need
to be trained so that they understand uses to which their
technology could be put and reflect on the uses they want it
to be put to.
Forecasting the state of computing by 2030, he said that
most of us have no idea yet because change is happening so
quickly. We know that quantum computing - the introduction
of physics into the field of computer science - is going to
be extremely important; that computers are going to become
really, very tiny, the size of an atom which is going to
make a huge difference; nano-computing, very small computers
that one might swallow inside a pill and that will then
learn about the illness and set about curing it; that brings
together biological computing as well, where one can print
parts of the body. Everybody is going to see the increasing
infusing of computing into all aspects of our lives.
Dr. P R Trivedi finally opined that his organization :
Computers (India) Limited and the Institute of Information
Technology (India) in association with the Buddha Institute
of Technology will continue researching on also an important
aspect of computing by using computers and information
technology tools and techniques for online education and
training viewing the disastrous effects of COVID-19 which is
compelling the Government of India and the State Governments
to keep the Institutions, Schools, Colleges and Universities
closed for an indefinite period in order to save the lives
of the students and the teachers. Such developments in the
area of computing will make it easier for the students to
learn almost everything with the help of their computers,
laptops, cellular phones, mobile devices etc.