Hello SM,
I would like to thank you for representing us at the Telecommunications and ICTs: Drivers of innovation workshop. The title of the workshop is very long. Anyway, i thank you for sharing what has been discussed.
Question time:
>Is the approach to innovation a failure?
Yes it is, because i haven't seen any innovative Mauritian Project so far. Talking about the approach and failure. Has the Executive Director change the approach so that people are encouraged to come with new ideas? Or does the Executive Director prefer to just sit and get paid rather than working out a new approach?
>He also mentioned that the Mauritius Research Council provided funding for several research projects. Ish commented that there was a person in Mauritius who has developed open source software and asked whether funding would be available for such projects. The reply was that the stakeholders already include such people working on those type of projects.
I would like to ask Logan this question: Has the Mauritius Research Council provided you funding for your Open Source work?
> After lunch, there was a presentation about Innovative Public service and ICT. Ish noticed that he could not sign in on m.govmu.org as the Google CAPTCHA was missing in the mobile version of the web site.
I would like to know the reaction of the Acting Director of the Central Informatics Bureau when Ish told him that the Google CAPTCHA was missing in the mobile version of the web site.
>I commented that there was some discussion on the Mauritius Internet Users mailing list about the government web site and pointed out that it was based on nostalgic web design. I asked whether there were any standards for government web sites.
You pointed out the Government Website issue and i would like to know what you meant when you said: The reply was that they are mentioned as part of the tender process.
I would also like to know about the 'seven ways to boost innovation for a SMART Mauritius.'
Thank you.
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> Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 06:14:59 -0700
> To: mauritius-internet-users_at_lists.elandnews.com
> From: sm+mu_at_elandsys.com
> Subject: Telecommunications and ICTs: Drivers of innovation workshop
>
> Hello,
>
> I attended the Telecommunications and ICTs: Drivers of innovation
> workshop as a representative of the Mauritius Internet Users. The
> workshop was held on the occasion of the World Telecommunications and
> Information Society Day 2015. The Executive Director of the
> Mauritius Research Council gave a presentation about "innovation in
> the knowledge economy". He covered wind farms, ocean research (
> https://twitter.com/IshSookun/status/600192071639683072 ) etc. He
> also mentioned that the Mauritius Research Council provided funding
> for several research projects. Ish commented that there was a person
> in Mauritius who has developed open source software and asked whether
> funding would be available for such projects. The reply was that the
> stakeholders already include such people working on those type of
> projects. I commented that IPR was used, outside Mauritius, to
> measure innovation. The Executive Director responded that there
> hasn't been much IPR from the projects. Is the approach to
> innovation a failure?
>
> There was a presentation from Dr P.C. Catherine, Lecturer at the
> University of Technology about smart cities sub-saharan Africa. He
> talked about urbanization in that region. He also mentioned that The
> university has received funding from Horizon 2020 for a project in
> Quatre Bornes, one in Maputo and the last one in Nairobi.
>
> After lunch, there was a presentation about Innovative Public service
> and ICT. Ish noticed that he could not sign in on m.govmu.org as the
> Google CAPTCHA was missing in the mobile version of the web site. He
> asked the Acting Director of the Central Informatics Bureau about
> that. He will probrably comment about that on his blog. He also
> pointed out that the forums and blogs on govmu.org are not being used
> and asked whether there has been any study before the web site was
> designed. I commented that there was some discussion on the
> Mauritius Internet Users mailing list about the government web site
> and pointed out that it was based on nostalgic web design. I asked
> whether there were any standards for government web sites. The reply
> was that they are mentioned as part of the tender process. I
> clarified that I was referring to technical specifications, i.e. it
> was not about the quality of the web site.
>
> There was a presentation by the Director of the MSIRI in which he
> talked about the usage of Geographic Information System at the MSIRI
> and the software developed for providing information to the
> agricultural sector. The last presentation was about seven ways to
> boost innovation for a SMART Mauritius.
>
> Ish explained about the 100 Mbps (local access) initiative during an
> informal conversation. I had an informal conversation about whether
> there was data which could be made available from the Geographic
> Information System.
>
> I would like to thank the Linux User Group Meta for extending an
> invitation to the Mauritius Internet Users for this workshop. I
> would also like to thank the National Computer Board for the nice lunch.
>
> Regards,
> S. Moonesamy
>
>
Received on Mon May 18 2015 - 15:14:58 PST