A seminar organised by the department of Information Technology on Friday as part of the Keraleeyam festival on Kerala’s IT sector laid stress on the need for stepping up research in the sector and on taking measures to meet the challenges and tapping the opportunities thrown up by the evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI) related technologies.
Palanivel Thiaga Rajan, Minister for Information Technology and Digital Services of Tamil Nadu, said that continuity in managing government digital records with the changes in government and respecting privacy of the citizens will be the key elements in effective e-governance in the future. Lauding Kerala’s KFON project to provide internet to everyone, he said that there exists a very high level of synergy between the approach of the Kerala and Tamil Nadu governments to the IT sector.
V. Namasivayam, Kerala State Planning Board member, said that the State never treats IT as a silver bullet and an answer to everything, but takes a people-centric approach.
