Pan IIT Hyderabad

Can you provide me the details of the PanIIT Alumni? Also tell me about the objective behind starting the PanIIT Alumni? Also list me proposal that resulted from the 2004 event?

[Pathak]

The PanIIT Alumni movement started in 2002, when some like-minded alumni formed a PanIIT Board. The board organized two events in San Jose (January 2003) and Bengaluru (February 2003), which were highly successful.

The PanIIT Alumni organization was formed as organization, covering alumni of all Indian Institutes of Technology, to evolve a brand that would provide strong union among IIT alumni with the key objectives of:

• Nation Building.
• Enhancing the IIT Brand.
• Networking and Alumni Services.
• Providing a forum for Advocacy.

The PanIIT Alumni movement, over the years, has developed and strengthens itself in many ways.

It has fully functional chapters in India (PanIIT Alumni India), the US, the EU, Canada, Australia, Japan, and Singapore amongst others.

It has organized a slew of global and regional events to permit alumni networking.

The Turning Point

The 2004 event in Delhi – whose theme was “Empower India” – was the turning point for the movement. It was decided that the PanIIT Alumni organization should bring nation-building within its scope and take up the following tasks:

Advance PanIIT Alumni branding and become an important lobbying medium. Undertake ‘Empowering India’ tasks.

Interact with the IIT system to grow the IIT brand. Set up a PanIIT secretariat.

Some of the proposal that resulted from the 2004 event:

Knowledge Initiative

Creation of Rs-50-crore-fund by the Ministry of Science and Technology to co-operatively work with PanIIT Alumni for developing technologies that benefit rural India

Pi-Fort (Pan IIT Foundation For Rural Transformation)

Setting up a ‘proof of concept’ for a marketing/ distribution network resulting in better yield for farmers

Portal for harvesting technologies

Knowledge base of existing initiatives by various IITians and IITian-led organizations

Pi-Foci (Pan IIT Future of Computing Initiative)

White paper on the appropriate technology stacks (hardware, software, communication, applications) for developing countries.