Rousing welcome to Commonwealth Express in Trivandrum

The Commonwealth Express was given a rousing welcome as it wheeled into to the Platform No.1 of the Trivandrum Central Railway Station on 25th August 2010. Top ranking officers of Kerala IT including Dr.Rathan U.Kelkar IAS, Director Kerala State IT Mission, Shri.Mervin Alexander, CEO Technopark, Shri.Korath V.Mathew, Director Akshaya were present to welcome the train along with senior personnel from Railways including Shri.Ashok Kumar, Additional Divisional Railway Manager.

The Chief Guest of Kerala IT was Shri.Anurag Goyal, Director, E-Governance, Government of India who opened the stall on Kerala IT set up at Platform No.1 of the Railway Station in the presence of senior members of Kerala IT. The stall features the key highlights of the Kerala IT, with particular focus to its e-governance projects. Brochures, pamphlets and information material on Kerala State IT Mission have been kept on display in the stall along with video films and documentary on KSITM's projects.

Commonwealth Express Train to arrive in Kerala on 25 August

The Commonwealth Express Train that was flagged off from Delhi on June 24, 2010 will reach Trivandrum on Wednesday, August 25, 2010. Hon’ble Chief Minister of Kerala, Shri V S Achuthanandan will inaugurate the exhibition in Kerala at the Trivandrum Railway Station. The Commonwealth Express is a special exhibition train designed to promote the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games. It has 11 coaches -- five of which feature rare Commonwealth Games memorabilia, and six of which are devoted to showcasing Information Technology.

ThoughtFactoryPR: Onam Celebrations @ IT Parks in Kerala

ThoughtFactoryPR: Onam Celebrations @ IT Parks in Kerala: "IT Parks in Kerala are celebrating Onam enthusiastically. Technopark Trivandrum's Park Centre celebrated Onam by arranging the floral des..."

Onam Celebrations @ IT Parks in Kerala

IT Parks in Kerala are celebrating Onam enthusiastically.

Technopark Trivandrum's Park Centre celebrated Onam by arranging the floral design - Athapookalam and displayed Pulikali. The celebrations here concluded with a sumptuous Onasadhya.

Other companies in the Technopark campus are also celebrating the festival with great fervor by organizing entertaining programmes.

Infopark Kochi was also not left behind. They also organized variety of celebrations such as Athapookalam, Vadamvali, and Onapaattu competitions along with the famous Onasadhya

23 companies from Infopark participated in the Athapookalam competition, 16 companies participated in Vadamvali (Tug-of-War) and 9 companies for Onapaattu. UVJ Technologies won the first prize for Athapookalam competition followed by OPI Global with the second prize and Vanilla Networks with the third prize. TCS bagged the first prize for Vadamvali contest.

All the employees at Infopark and Technopark came decked in the traditional Kerala attire and participated with great vigor in all the competitions.

Prevention is better than Cure – Kerala IT plans on setting a Crisis Management Plan to counter cyber threats

As part of the Kerala State IT department’s initiatives Kerala will soon have a draft Crisis Management Plan (CMP) to counter Cyber threats. This is in wake of the rising cyber threats across the country. “Cyber Threat is a menace we are facing today and it is imperative we formulate a CMP to counter these cyber crimes. I look forward various Kerala government’s various departments to deliberate and discuss on setting up a CMP directive for the same.” Says Dr. Ajay Kumar, IAS, Principal Secretary, Kerala IT.

The Central Government has also formulated Crisis Management Plan (CMP) for countering cyber threats for implementation by all Ministries/ Departments of Central Government, State Governments and their organizations and critical sectors. The organizations operating critical information infrastructure have been advised to implement information security management practices based on International Standard ISO 27001.

Some interesting facts are: According to Windows 7 forum, India is the safest digital country in the world with a total 52 attacks per 1,000 PCs; USA is ranked the most targeted country with the rate of 1.6 incidents per PC. Though China has biggest number of PCs after the United States, it is in the seventh place. Users in the United States were found to be most at risk: of 265,700,000 active PCs, there were 441,003,516 attempted cyber attacks, or 1,660 attacks per 1,000 computers. India fared best: with 48,100,000 active PCs, we only experienced 2,516,341 attempted cyber attacks.

But being safe should not stop us from taking the preventive steps in advance. After all ‘Prevention is better than cure.”

Kerala State IT Mission to conduct awareness workshop to counter cyber attacks and cyber terrorism in government organizations

Kerala State IT Mission (KSITM) in association with Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-Kerala) is conducting a one-day workshop ‘Crisis Management Plan’ with the objective to spread awareness on the rising cyber attacks and cyber terrorism on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at Hotel Residency Towers, Trivandrum. The widespread use of computers across Kerala government offices have made it important that government is also enabled to rise to computer threats and vulnerabilities and the workshop will discuss on the steps the government organizations need to take to counter these growing threats.

Sasthra University of Thanjavur wins the coveted TechTop 2010

Thanjavur-based Sasthra University has bagged the first
prize comprising of Degree C Award of Rupees One Lakh for its project – ‘Production
of Nano-carbon sheets from the exhaust pipes in Industries’ at TechTop 2010.