Dear All,

Prof Kenneth Keniston, MIT, USA will be holding an interactive session on Wednesday, 18 May, 2005 at 1100hrs at IIIT Seminar Hall (Room No.119), Gachibowli, Hyderabad on ‘e-Governance Initiatives in India – Issues and Challenges’.

You are invited to participate in the session and join us for lunch in IIIT Guest House at 1300hrs. Brief bio-data of Prof Kenneth Keniston is appended below for your information.

You are requested to confirm by e-mail/Tel. to Mr K S Vijaya Sekhar (040-2300 0646 or vijaya@iiit.net) latest by 1400hrs on 17 May, 2005 to make the necessary arrangements.

Looking forward to your participation.

Maj Gen (Retd.) Dr R K Bagga AVSM
Advisor, Outreach Division & Satyam Computer Services Ltd.,
International Institute of Information Technology
Gachibowli, Hyderabad 500 019
Tel: 040-2300 0646, Fax: 040-2300 1413
bagga@computer.org; Mob:98481-46878

Brief Bio-data of Prof Kenneth Keniston

Kenneth Keniston is Andrew W Mellon Professor of Human Development in the Program in Science, Technology, and was Director of the MIT India Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He was Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. He is Senior Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Information Technology-Bangalore (IIITB) and also member of the Governing Board of the IIITB. Professor Keniston is actively involved in various e-Governance projects in India and has been interacting with different States, monitoring the progress of ICT initiatives for India with help from Ministry of Communications & IT. With Indian colleagues and graduate students, he is currently engaged in a comparative ethnographic study of sites that seek to use modern information and communication technologies for e-governance and the improvement of life in rural India.

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