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Technology to change village life
Efforts were being made to develop Mori and surrounding villages in Sakhinetipalli mandal in East Godavari district as smart villages by introducing the prototyping for a scalable village leveraging Digital Technology and Open Innovation.
- Executive Director of Garwood Centre for Corporate Innovation Solomon Darwin says making 6,50,000 villages in India smart will have an exponential impact on the GDP and happiness index
- States that villages are most relevant for problem solving where close to 70 per cent of people live and it does not take much technology to make villagers happy
Mori (East Godavari): Efforts were being made to develop Mori and surrounding villages in Sakhinetipalli mandal in East Godavari district as smart villages by introducing the prototyping for a scalable village leveraging Digital Technology and Open Innovation.
In this connection, Executive Director of Garwood Centre for Corporate Innovation Professor Solomon Darwin and IT Advisor to the Government of Andhra Pradesh and Chairman of Andhra Pradesh Innovation Society J A Chowdary visited Mori on Sunday.
Addressing the gathering, Chowdary said, “The prototype calls for a sustainable business model, the first Business Case Study sponsored and commissioned by Andhra Pradesh Innovation Society. Garwood Centre for Corporate Innovation, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley and Government of Andhra Pradesh joined hands to prototype through co-creation efforts with the villagers in Mori.” He assured the cooperation of all government departments in the execution of this project. He said FiberNet to be implemented from August would lead to digital empowerment.
Prof Solomon said, “Garwood Centre for Corporate Innovation is known for its premier research in open innovation which incorporates technologies and knowledge flows from all sources to create value and capture value for the end user.”
Prof Solomon’s appeal to the villagers to participate and cooperate in this study over the next five months was well received and applauded by the villagers, elected representatives and District Collector H Arun Kumar. The prototype is expected to be ready by mid-December. Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu is scheduled to visit the village on December 29 to hear directly from the villagers to evaluate the technology and the business models proposed for smart villages through the Berkeley study.
Prof Solomon’s efforts to bring together many prominent firms to partner in this effort were applauded by IT Advisor to the Government of Andhra Pradesh and Chairman of Andhra Pradesh Innovation Society J A Chowdary. Some of the firms include: Google, Cisco, IBM, Ericsson, EVX, Sahaj, Tyco, Tech Mahindra, Potential.com, Qualcomm, Paradigm, NEC etc.
Prof Solomon, who teaches Building Smart Cities course at Berkeley, believes, that making 6,50,000 villages in India slightly smart will have an exponential impact on the GDP and happiness index compared to making a few hundred cities smart. The villages are most relevant for problem solving where close to 70 per cent of people live and it does not take much technology to make villagers happy, he said. He said the AP government is playing a key role by welcoming firms and empowering people and it is for this reason that he had taken up the project.
Dr Nikhil Agarwal, CEO, AP Innovation Society, said IT industry would generate employment opportunities to the unemployed. Razole MLA Gollapalli Surya Rao requested the people to become part of development process.
