NEW DELHI; March: A week-long workshop on State-of-the-Art Information Technology, including the Indian Experience was jointly organized by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the National Informatics Centre (NIC) from March 29, 1993. The Workshop was attended by Heads of Organizations from 11 Asian, African and European Countries.
The objective of the workshop was to upgrade the knowledge of the participants on low-cost Information Technology-based networks, with NICNET of NIC as the example.
Promotion of application of advanced informatics technologies in Developing Countries is one of the priority areas of UNIDO activities. The UNIDO-NIC Workshop was one of a series of workshops sponsored by UNIDO in the field of hardware and software development and use of Industrial and Technological InformationBank (INTIB) databases and networking, for exchange of information and transfer of technology between member countries.
The workshop was attended by Mr V Podshibyakin, Chief and Mr O Padichakudi, of INTIB, UNIDO, along with two international experts from the area of Information Technology, Dr Upendra Sahu, Managing Partner, United Research, USA, and Mr Thomas K Duncan, Managing Partner, Parsec Systems, USA. These experts presented papers on their fields and also took part in the discussions between NIC members and the Delegates.