Pune: A Communication Workshop for NIC Officers was conducted at the National Informatics Centre (Western Region), Pune, from September 10 to 12, 1997. The Workshop was inaugurated by Dr Jayashri Chaudhuri, State Informatics Officer, West Bengal. The Workshop commenced with a key note lecture on "Intranet" by Mr DP Bobde, Senior Technical Director. This was followed by a series of lectures on latest communication software; IP addressing; electronic commerce & WWW services. An important event of the Workshop was a lecture on latest IT trends, by Dr N Vijayaditya Deputy Director General, NIC, delivered from New Delhi using Video Conferencing facility of NIC.