ISWorld Net India 

Section Editor: Vivek Gupta
Contents
[Purpose]  [Lists and NetworksAssociations]  [Conferences]  [Directories]  [E-Publications]
[Research Centres]  [Search Engines]  [Regional Pointers]  [International Pointers]

Purpose

ISWorld Net's Mission is to provide information which is intended to be of universal interest to all Information Systems/Information Technology (IS/T) researchers. This page provides supplementary materials of specific interest related to India to IS/IT academics, students and researchers.

Please draw to the editor's attention additional sites that should be plugged into this page.

If you're new to the world-wide web or to the discipline, you might prefer to start by looking at the Association for Information System's 'plugging-in' page, which provides guidance about the electronic resources that are available for IS researchers. The most important single set of resources is, of course, ISWorld Net itself.

Discussion Lists, Networks, and News-Groups

»ISWORLD India - ISworld India is an egroup created for IS researchers focusing on India IT topics.
»Management Reserach Scholars Group - The management PhD egroup was created to provide a forum for scholars from various management disciplines to interact and share their views on management research problems.
»Bytes For All - The bytes for all is a forum for discussing how ICT can help poor in developing countries.

Associations

»Computer Society of India (CSI) - Computer Society of India is a non-profit, professional body where IT professionals meet to exchange views and information, to learn and share ideas. CSI has over 18000 members to date which includes individual professionals, students, academicians, scientist, corporations and other institutions.
»Medical Computer Society of India (MCSI) - The Medical Computer Society of India (MCSI) is a professional organization for Doctors and non-Doctors. It provides a "common platform" for exchanging views regarding the application of computers in medicine.
»All India Management Association (AIMA) - All India Institute of Management is an apex body with active support of the Government of India and is intended as a "cause group- a body to pool management thoughts in the country; a forum to develop a national managerial ethos; an organisation to facilitate the furtherance of the profession and its contribution to society."
»National Association of Software Services Companies - The NASSCOM is association of indian software organisations.
»Software Technology Parks of India - Software Technology Parks of India is a society under Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Government of India.

Conferences 

»IIT Kanpur page of Upcoming Conferences/Symposium/Workshop in India - The IIT Kanpur conference webpage maintains a list of upcoming events related to computer science research happening in India
»Mangement Research Network India Page - Maintains a list of management research conferences in India.
»2003 IEEE Region 10 Conference (Oct14-17 2003) - Convergent Technologies for the Asia-Pacific
> »6th International Conference/Exhibition on High Performance Computing (HPC-Asia 2002), Bangalore, India (16-19 December 2002)
»Marketing of Technology Oriented Products and Services in the Global Environment at IIM Bangalore, December 27-28, 2002
»The 1st Indian International Conference on Artificial ntelligence - (IICAI-03) in Hyderabad, INDIA, December 18-20 2002.
»INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE BASED COMPUTER SYSTEMS at NCST Mumbai on Dec 18-21, 2002
» IFIP WG9.4 Conference: ICTs and Development: New Opportunities, Perspectives & Challenges, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India, 29-31 May, 2002.

Directories

»Information Systems Departments & Faculty - A list of Information Systems departments & faculty in India.
»Computer Science & Engineering Departments & Faculty - A list of Computer Science departments & faculty in India.

Electronic Journals, Newsletters and Magazines

»Information Technology for Development Journal - Information Technology for Development Journal
»IFIP WG 9.4 Newsletter - IFIP WG 9.4 Newsletter is a quarterly in e-Governance edited by Prof. S. C. Bhatnagar.
»Vivek - Vivek is a quarterly in Artificial Intelligence published by the National Centre for Software Technology.
»Dataquest India - Dataquest is a national IT practitioner magazine.
»Computers Today - Computer Today is a national IT practitioner magazine.


Research Centres

»Media Lab Asia in India - An extension of Media Lab MIT it  is the world’s largest academic research program dedicated to bringing the benefits of new technologies to everyone, with a special focus on meeting the grand challenges in learning, health, and economic development.
»National Centre of Software Technology (NCST) - The National Centre for Software Technology is an autonomous R&D Unit, in Bombay and Bangalore, under the administrative purview of the Department of Electronics (DoE), India.
»National Informatics Centre (NIC) - National Informatics Centre is a premier organisation in the field of Information Technology (IT) in India under the administrative purview of the Department of Electronics (DoE), India.
»Supercomputer Research and Education Centre (SERC) - The Supercomputer Research and Education Centre is a government supported research organisation located in the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore (India).
»Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) - The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research is a private, internationally renowned research centre involved in basic research in areas such as theoretical physics, astronomy, astrophysics, mathematics, communications and computer science, and theoretical computer science.
»Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) - The Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research is a Government supported (Department of Science and Technology) organisation with the objective of conducting and promoting research at the highest level in frontier and interdisciplinary areas of Science and Engineering.
»Centre For Development Of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) - C-DAC is a scientific society under the Department of Electronics, Government of India. It is India's national initiative for the design and development of high-performance computers based on parallel processing architectures.
»Centre for Artificial Intelligence & Robotics (CAIR) - The Centre for Artificial Intelligence & Robotics was set up under the auspices of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). It conducts basic and applied research in the fields of artificial intelligence, robotics and automation with special emphasis on defence requirements.
»Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation (C-MMACS) - The Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation is one of many laboratories managed by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), a Government of India agency. The centre's research areas include ocean, atmospheric, lithosphere, and dynamical systems modelling.
»Supercomputer Education and Research Centre (SERC) - The Supercomputer Education and Research Centre (SERC) provides state-of-the-art computing facility to the faculty and students of the Institute of Sciences, Bangalore. The centre's research areas include Computer Aided Design, Computer Architecture, Database and Real-Time Systems, Graphics and Visualization, Multimedia Systems and High Performance Computing.

Indian Search Engines

»Rekha.com - an IT portal
»123 India
»Surf India
»Jadoo
»Khoj
»Samachar - a custom news engine
»LocateIndia.com
»Sholay.com

Pointers to Key Pages in India

»Ministry of Informaition Technology - The Ministry of Information Technology is Government of India's policy making agency for the electronics and information technology sector. This page provides a wealth of information regarding policy initiatives, investment opportunities, and IT infrastructure initiatives.
»Department of Science and Technology (DST) - The Department of Science and Technology is Government of India's nodal agency responsible for organising, coordinating and promoting science & technology activities.
»The Software Technology Park (STP) Scheme - The Software Technology Park scheme is a 100% export oriented scheme for the development and export of computer software using data communication links or in the form of physical media including the export of professional services.
»Vigyan Prasar - Vigyan Prasar is an autonomous organisation setup by the Government of India's Department of Science and Technology to undertake large scale science popularisation tasks in the country.
»Technology Development Board (TDB) - The Technology Development Board (TDB) was setup by the Government of India to support the development and commercialisation of technology in the country by bringing together the efforts of private Industry and R&D institutions.
»The Guide - A Guide to India's Internet Services.
»Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL) - Videsh Sanchar Nigam is India's telecommunication services provider.

Pointers to Key International Pages

»The INFOSYS Conference List
»The INFOSYS List of Calls for Papers
»The INFOSYS list of I.S. Journals
»IS Departments worldwide
»The Association for Information System's 'Plugging In' page
»HICSS (the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences)