NAGAON, Feb 7 — The Community Information Centres (CICs) in
Assam can be mutual partner with Non-Resident Assamese in building
the nation and these centers can be come global community members
by participating freely in various global formers, said Dr Jugal K
Kalita, associate professor of Computer Science of Colorado State
University, USA. Speaking as a chief guest on the 8th of January at
CIC, Pakhimoria in Nagaon district, Dr Kalita said that Non-Resident
Assamese people now working in USA are always eager to help the
land of their origin in various fields, and the CICs in Assam can take
the help of the computer experts working in USA in updating
themselves. Dr Kalita hoped that the CICs in the State would organize
workshops and invite those Non-Resident Assamese, expert in
Computer Science, who come to their homeland almost every year to
receive technical guidance.
Dr Kalita in his speech told Non-Resident Assamese have small
companies in USA where they take projects and these projects are
sometimes sent to Assam to be done by skilful persons here and hoped
that the talented CIC operators could take this opportunity. Dr Kalita
further told the CICs are the best medium to bring an IT revolution in
Assam and assured that, if invited by the administration, he and other
Non-Resident Assamese would surely help the CICs of Assam.
The workshop was arranged by Jayanta Bora and Smt Saraswati
Kashyap CIC Pakhimoria and was attended by operators from all the
CICs of Nagaon and six CICs of Lakhimpur district. Sri Arabindo
Dutta, district informatics officer, Nagaon and Dibya Dutta, DIO,
Lakhimpur, Smt Saswatee Chatterjee, a specialist in Computer
Graphics now living in USA, Prof (retd) Deba K Saikia, an eminent
playwright and Rama Bora, retired teacher were among others present
in the workshop. It may be mentioned here that CIC, Pakhimoria has
already prepared a website on the rich cultural heritage and historical
importance of Nagaon district and has taken up an ambitious project of
preparing a website on Assam.
If any technical or business-oriented individual residing outside Assam
including those abroad and those in the highly developed high-tech
centers within India such as Bangalore and Hyderabad wishes to talk to
the CIC personnel and other individuals in Assam about their technical
and business experiences, please contact Jugal Kalita
(kalita@pikespeak.uccs.edu) or Dibya Dutta, District Information
Officer, North Lakhimpur (a-lakhim@hub.nic.in). We will help you set
up a meeting where you can talk about your experiences to a
technically savvy group of individuals in Assam. There are
approximately 200 CICs in Assam, and about 400 in all of the
Northeast. A CIC has several PCs that have high speed Internet
connection. The purpose of establishing the CICs is to bring about a
high-tech revolution in the Northeast, primarily in the rural areas.
There is one CIC in every administrative Block and they are usually
situated in a Higher Secondary School or College campus. Each CIC is
manned by two technically well-trained individuals. Many are B.E.s,
M.E.s, M.C.As. All others have a Bachelors or Masters Degree
- Contributed by Jayonta Bora and Saraswatee Kashyap,
Nagaon (part of this report was published in the Assam Tribune
on the 8th of February, 2004)
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