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लक्ष्य 2020

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अनामिका प्रेस

India, home to one of the oldest civilisations on Earth, has been attributed with intellectual and spiritual excellence since recorded history, and eons predating it. The history of civilisation, however, has never accorded any nation the luxury of perpetual zenith. We, too, have seen the lows and highs in the tides of time and the waves of invaders and occupiers they brought along. The few centuries of recent occupation oppressed not only our people, but also our culture and economy. We are now emerging from this trough and have set on an apical ascent, with a dream to achieve back our glory at the helm of the community of nations by the year 2020AD. This is a dream of our leaders, prominent among them being our President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and the dream of our masses. We, at Indicybers, also share this dream. We too have a vision for the year 2020, which forms our guiding philosophy.

Vision 2020 is characterised by five 'sha's' and visualised as a four pillared shelter, which will have a roof of 'shanti' (peace), resting on the four pillars of 'shiksha' (education), 'shakti' (power), 'swasthya' (health) and 'samriddhi' (prosperity). It will be a shelter for 'mahajati', or humanity in general, with India at its helm, though essentially in a non-oppressive manner. The roof of 'shanti' can only be built after the pillars have been established. We seek to strive towards erecting these pillars with the humble efforts we can make in our field of expertise. Our belief is that once the pillars are in place, building the roof will be consequential. We shall now try to elucidate our designs or blue-prints for these pillars.

The first pillar to be built shall be that of 'shiksha' (education). Indeed this is one sector, besides health, in which the far reaches of rural India remain deprived. The formulation of education policies and their implementation is a strategic task and much beyond our scope and means. Our aim here, as in other areas, is to provide greater accessibility. The hard fact regarding our education system today is that while on one hand our students are leaving blazing trails all over the globe, it is only the minority of the privileged class which has a good enough understanding of the English language for self-development. The other majority of 'vernacular-literate' people, educated in vernacular mediums, remain deprived owing to the "digital- divide". We aim at making IT education accessible for them through the implementation of 'Swatantra' (swa = own, tantra = system), which is described elsewhere.

Accessibility goes beyond merely being able to possess something. We may have some state-of-the-art electrical appliance but it, or more appropriately its function, will only be accessible when we connect it to a power supply. This analogy befits our vernacular literate population with regards to information and communication technology (ICT). The pervasion of computers into rural areas is no longer hindered by cost factors alone. The true resistance to a greater spread of ICT today is rooted in the lack of vernacular computing resouces. Efforts are indeed being made in the field. However, these previously focused on the provision of application software alone. Our belief is that while this does bridge the digital divide, it still falls short of true empowerment; as the vernacular literate still are unable to play an active role in the ongoing ICT revolution, as systems for software development using vernacular programming are practically non-existent. Hindawi is our effort at making computer programming accessible to the vernacular literates. We intend to develop it into a system using vernacular level programming at all levels of software development. This shall be augmented by advanced features such as automated symbol (variable name) translation, literate programming, machine translation for vernaculars and optimised software engineering principles for vernacular development. The pedagogical motive further demands the developmnt of quality teaching aids and this constitutes another area of focus at Indicybers.

The second pillar to be erected shall be that of swasthya (health). The proverbial "healthy mind in a healthy body" emphasises that the strength of the pillar of education shall depend on the strength of the pillar of health. Today there still remain regions in india which are deprived of basic healthcare facilities. Even in other places where there are primary health centres in the vicinity, specialised treatment continues to be unavailable. ICT provides a promising solution to the problem through the development and implementation of proper telemedicine systems. Our effort in the field of telemedicine concentrates on the development of a rural telemedicine system. This builds upon our past experience in developing a health monitoring system for elders and invalid. We intend to make RTM (Rural Tele-Medicine) conform to international standards in telemedicine.

The third pillar is of shakti (power), by which we literally indicate our country's defence. Much of our defence technology today is not indigenous. In the present day world, peace requires a nation to be able to defend itself in all eventualities, and more so in the face of rise in extremist activities. We at Indicybers desire to pool in our efforts at developing technology which can help our nation attain strategic advantages in the defence sector. With our expertise in robotics, we are looking at ways in which robotic surveillance can help our armed services manage our country's borders with better accuracy and reduced hazard. Work in cybernetic systems is of special interest in this regard. We are also looking ta the possibilities of integrating mechatronics with biological substrates so as to achieve better system identification and control in autonomous robots. Our technology in vernacular NLU (Natural Language Understanding) autonomous robots is intended to make it easier for our jawans to operate them.

The fourth pillar of samriddhi (prosperity) is strengthened by the other three pillars. Prosperity can only be achieved once we are assured of education, heath and a strong defence. However, the means for achieving prosperity need to be developed alongside the other three areas. Our being a primarily agriculture oriented economy, we have looked at venues for applying our skills to the development in this sector. We primarily intend to lend our support to this area through applying robotics in agriculture. This was initially suggested by Dr. Amanda Sharkey, noted roboticist from the UK, during a public lecture in Kolkata. However, we intend to go beyond the local needs in the application of our skills to the cause of prosperity.

The present day econo-centric world relates prosperity to purchasing power. In terms of the 'country's' purchasing power, this translates into the foreign exchange reserves. We intend to strive towards perfection, in our area of expertise, so as to achieve a level of accomplishment where we can be a major player globally, in turn earning foreign exchange for the nation. The areas we wish to develop our skills and experience in are system software, embedded system, autonomous robotics, telemedicine, etc.

Finally, when these pillars are erected, the roof of shanti can be placed atop them. When people are literate and have access to proper healthcare, when resources are not scarce and our defence is strong, we believe prevalence of peace will be consequential, and then India shall certainly occupy the apical seat in the community of nations.

JAI HIND...

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