GOVERNMENT OF TAMIL NADUTamil Nadu e-Governance Agency

September - December 2019

Electronic governance is adopted by countries across the globe to introduce and incorporate technology into governmental processes. In a fas t-growing and demanding economy like India,

e-governance has become essential.

Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency (TNeGA) was created as an autonomous Society regis tered under the Tamil Nadu Societies Regis tration Act to align and implement the National e-Governance Plan.The mission of TNeGA is to improve the quality of life of our citizens through efficient delivery of Government services using the tools of Information Technology, and to create cos t effective, scalable solutions for Governance, making full use of emerging technologies like

Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency (TNeGA)INTRODUCTION

• BLOCKCHAIN • INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) • ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE / MACHINE LEARNING

• DRONES • DATA ANALYTICS • AR/VR, etc.

Review Meetingon 24th Sep 2019

Honorable Minis ter for Revenue and IT

RB Udhayakumar reviewed various projects of TNeGA

and TANFINET. IT secretary and CEO of

TNeGA briefed him. It was motivating to lis ten to his brilliant

vision for TNeGA & IT Department.

TNeGA Anniversary Celebration on 20th Dec 2019

We celebrated our firs t anniversary! A celebration with an anniversary cake, fes tive decorations, prizes, return gifts, and few activities for employees to enjoy. Our CEO Mr. Santosh K Misra joined us and offered inspiring remarks on the pas t, present and future of our organisation.

EczITe 2019

India’s bigges t ‘e-Governance’ annual event, with the theme “Predictive Governance, Empowering Citizens” held on October 4, 2019, at Hotel Leela Palace, Chennai.

We have come up with a concept called ‘Digi Volunteers’ – where volunteers can share their knowledge and experience with TNeGA said Mr. Santosh K Misra,

Commissioner of e-Governance, CEO of TNeGA.

Events

CII CONNECT 2019INAUGURATION OF 18TH EDITION OF CII CONNECT 2019.

The 18th Edition of CIICONNECT2019, an international Conference and Exhibition on ICT with the theme “Technology @ The Heart of India’s $5 Trillion Economy” organized by the Government of Tamil Nadu along with CII and STPI.

Hon’ble Chief Minis ter launched 4 important Digital initiatives of TNeGA, namely,

Tamil Nadu has received Rs 6500 crore inves tments in the las t one year after an appeal made to the captains of the indus try in the s tate, it has resulted in 60,000 new employments in the s tate said hon’ble Chief Minis ter ofTamil Nadu Thiru. Edappadi K palaniswami.‘‘

‘‘• AI-based Agri Pest Identification System• Facial Recognition System• Tamil Chatbot ‘Anil’.• TNeGA YouTube Channel

MoUs signed between TNeGA &

FIRST MEET :It was a wonderful firs t meeting of enthusias tic TNeGA DigiVolunteers. We had extensive interaction on various areas of e-Governance where volunteers can make a significant impact. The firs t meeting was held on 26th Nov 2019 at TNeGA office.

Mission : Helping people through Technology.We invite volunteers who are passionate about technology and would like to

contribute to our DigiVolunteers initiative.

Dr. C.Mohan, IBM Fellow (IBM Almaden Research Center,

USA) & Dis tinguished Visiting Professor (Tsinghua University, China), has been appointed as

our Honorary Advisor to TNeGA.

AnnaUniversity

Kerala Blockchain Academy

Great Lakes Ins titute of

Management

IIT Madras Alumni

Association

TNeGA Digi Volunteers

Research Paper on ‘Automatic License Plate Recognition for Indian Roads’.

Arihant Patawari, Principal Architect AI/ML, TNeGA, published a research paper

on ‘Automatic License Plate Recognition for Indian Roads Using Fas ter-RCNN’.

It was presented by Praveen Ravirathinam

(co-author) at the 11th International Conference on Advanced Computing (ICoAC)

held in Chennai.

Dr Naveen Ashish, Chief Data Sciences Officer, InferLink Corporation, has been appointed as our Honorary Advisor to TNeGA.

NewspaperArticles

Face Recognition Sys tem

CII CONNECT

CONFERENCES:

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Santosh K Misra. Around 408

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country took part in the Con-ference.

Our CEO Santosh K Misra

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ON BLOCKChAIN

Our CEO Santosh K Misra

spoke at the Blockchain

International Conference on

Tamil Nadu government’s

initiatives on blockchain and

how the government intends

to transform citizen service

delivery using blockchain,

held on 17th October 2019.

CONVERGENCE 2019

Our CEO Santosh K Misra attended

“Convergence 2019” - The Global

Blockchain Congress held from

November 11-13, 2019, in Malaga,

Spain. He participated in two panel

discussion about Blockchain for

Inclusive Development and Block-

chain for SmartCities.

CAhOTECh 2019

The 4th International

Healthcare Technology

Conference was inau-

gurated by our CEO

Santosh K Misra . It was

organized by Consortium

of Accredited Healthcare

Organizations on the

theme ‘AI in Healthcare’

at IIT Chennai.

INTERNATIONAL

CONFERENCE

ON BLOCKChAIN

Our CEO Santosh K Misra

spoke at the Blockchain

International Conference on

Tamil Nadu government’s

initiatives on blockchain and

how the government intends

to transform citizen service

delivery using blockchain,

held on 17th October 2019.

Seminar #23 - 6th September, 2019 ‘GIS and its Integration with AI/ML: tracking

changes in land patterns’Speaker: Ms. Sindhu Reddy, TNeGA.

SEMINARS

Seminar #26 - 27th September, 2019‘Policymaking and Regulation in Blockchain’

Speaker: Ms. Tanvi Ratna,Founder and CEO, Policy 4.0. US - India Tech

Policy Fellow, New America Foundation.

Seminar #24 - 13th September, 2019‘AI & DATA : National Strategies and lessons for India’Speaker: Dr. Anindya Chaudhuri,Senior Economis t, Global Development Network(GDN).

Seminar #25 - 20th September, 2019‘Driving Healthcare diagnos tics using AI Power’ Speaker: Dr. M.G.Sumithra,HoD/ECE, KPR Ins titute of Engineeringand Technology, Coimbatore.

Seminar #25 - Interactive session on ‘Maker Village’ with Mr. Madhavan Nambiar,

Chairman, Kerala Government Digital Advisory Board

and Chairman, Maker Village.

Seminar #27 - 11th October, 2019‘Decentralised Asset Exchanges using Blockchain’Speaker: Mr. Ishan Roy, Principal Architect, Blockchain, TNeGA.

Seminar #35 - 27th December, 2019‘How Digital Creates Innovative Strategies’ Speaker: Dr. Rajiv Kohli,John. N. Dalton Memorial Professor of Business at The College of William & Mary.

Seminar #30 - 15th November, 2019‘Developing an Intelligent Chatbot using

NLP/AI and it’s application’Speaker: Prof. Sobha. L,

Anna University.

Seminar #32 - 6th December, 2019‘Hyper Converged Infras tructure’

Speaker: Mr. K. Bala Murugan,Project Manager for (TNSDC) TamilNadu State

Data Centre, ELCOT.

Seminar #34 - 27th December, 2019‘The impact of subscription programs on

cus tomer behavior’Speaker: Prof. Raghu Iyengar,

Miers-Busch, W’1885 Professor, Professor of Marketing and Faculty Director, Wharton

Cus tomer Analytics Initiative.

Seminar #31 – 22nd November, 2019‘State of Permissionless and PermissionedBlockchains: Myths and Reality’Speaker: Dr. Mohan C,IBM Fellow (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA) & Dis tinguished Visiting Professor (Tsinghua University, China).

Seminar #33 - 20th December, 2019‘National Preparedness,Lawbreaker Identification, Patient Engagement, Discovery Empowerment: All with Data Science’ Speaker: Dr. Naveen Ashish,Chief Data Sciences Officer, InferLink Corporation.

Seminar #29 – 1s t November, 2019 ‘Challenges and technical debts in real world

machine learning sys tems - AI in practice’Speaker: Mr. Bharath Sripathy,

Lead, Computer Vision, TNeGA.

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