On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 5:14 PM, S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com> wrote:
> 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
Hi all, I work on Open Source software, and I am based in Mauritius. I
have never been contacted by the Mauritius Research Council. Perhaps
the MRC can provide details of grant recepients.
(Thanks to Tuxlab and Fody Technologies for sponsoring the
infrastructure need to improve the security of the Internet).
> 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?
I guess that "prior work" killed any attempt at IPR.
>
> 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
> probbaly 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.
What are those 7 ways ?
>
> 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 - 15:24:50 PST