CISCO Summit Day 2 - Rajeeva Ratna Shah
December 10, 2007 by Chris | permalink
Rajeeva Ratna Shah. Indian Planing Commission Member Secretary. MAN IS THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS
He spoke of various levels of data and technology having a relation to humans and society. He focused on the role and importance of the individual in society. it is the foundation of diversity so that individuality leads to innovation thru the diversity.
Liberty - to bring out the best of individuals, Justice - 'justice is a square number. it is in perfect harmony, since the number of its parts is equal to the value of each part' stated Pythagorean.
Equality -
Fraternity -
India has 1.1 billion people. it has an annual growth rate of 9%. it could be greater, but the rate has been moderated so that the growth does not lead to even more exclusion. They do have an e-Governance Infrastructure and program which is focused on any time delivery of services. one of the programs that is on-going is the Unique ID for every voter.
there is now a move from centralized planning to decentralized land planning. every local authority can now access village level planning. they have aggregated all their resource GIS systems into one.
he continued to talk about their many programs that are active at the government.
