Manmohan Singh's advisor Sam Pitroda gets 7th IILM Distinguished Global Thinker Award 2013:
New Delhi, June 15 (IBNS): The 7th IILM Distinguished Global Thinker Award was conferred on Sam Pitroda, Advisor to the Prime Minister of India, at a ceremony on Friday.
The award instituted by IILM was given to Pitroda for his lasting contributions to help bridge the digital divide in India and across the globe, and for his contributions to usher in the telecom revolution in India.
The award ceremony was graced by Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor and other eminent personalities from various fields like politics, business, media, art and culture.
Pitroda is an internationally respected development thinker, policy maker, telecom inventor and entrepreneur who has spent over four decades in Information and Communications Technology and related human and national development initiatives.
Pitroda, who is the chairman of the National Innovation council, has also been spearheading the work on creating a road map for a "Decade of Innovation" in India.
Speaking on the occasion, Malvika Rai, Chairperson of IILM, said, "It gives me immense pleasure to honour Mr. Sam Pitroda who has laid foundation of India's technology and telecommunications revolution."
Leading business school IILM instituted the Global Thinker Award in 2006 to foster greater engagement with the global academic community as well as to provide a forum for policy debate on issues of international importance.
Since 2006, IILM has conferred the Global Thinker Award to Lord Bhikhu Parekh, Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, Professor C.K. Prahalad, Lord Meghnad Desai, Dr. Shashi Tharoor and Prof. Andre Beteille.
India's reality is "19th century mindsets, 20th century processes & 21st century technology" -Sam Pitroda @ IILM Global Thinker Award 2013
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New Delhi, June 15 (IBNS): The 7th IILM Distinguished Global Thinker Award was conferred on Sam Pitroda, Advisor to the Prime Minister of India, at a ceremony on Friday.
The award instituted by IILM was given to Pitroda for his lasting contributions to help bridge the digital divide in India and across the globe, and for his contributions to usher in the telecom revolution in India.
The award ceremony was graced by Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor and other eminent personalities from various fields like politics, business, media, art and culture.
Pitroda is an internationally respected development thinker, policy maker, telecom inventor and entrepreneur who has spent over four decades in Information and Communications Technology and related human and national development initiatives.
Pitroda, who is the chairman of the National Innovation council, has also been spearheading the work on creating a road map for a "Decade of Innovation" in India.
Speaking on the occasion, Malvika Rai, Chairperson of IILM, said, "It gives me immense pleasure to honour Mr. Sam Pitroda who has laid foundation of India's technology and telecommunications revolution."
Leading business school IILM instituted the Global Thinker Award in 2006 to foster greater engagement with the global academic community as well as to provide a forum for policy debate on issues of international importance.
Since 2006, IILM has conferred the Global Thinker Award to Lord Bhikhu Parekh, Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, Professor C.K. Prahalad, Lord Meghnad Desai, Dr. Shashi Tharoor and Prof. Andre Beteille.
India's reality is "19th century mindsets, 20th century processes & 21st century technology" -Sam Pitroda @ IILM Global Thinker Award 2013
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true words "19th century mindsets, 20th century processes & 21st century technology".
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