CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

A Symposium on:
Inclusive Education in a Connected World: Social Innovations to Exploit Pedagogical Potentials of Digital Age Learning"

On 28th December, 2016 at Tata Hall, IIM Calcutta

Organized by:

Social Informatics Research Group, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
The Centre for Educational Technology (CET), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
The Pratichi Institute, Kolkata
Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta (CSSSC), Kolkata

The purpose of this symposium is to bring together social scientists, technologists, education experts and policymakers from across academic, government, industry and non-government organizations, and the budding social innovators in the field of education to discuss, share and promote current research and recent accomplishments across all aspects of Internet-enabled social innovations in education exploiting pedagogical potentials of Digital Age Learning to help underprivileged children.

Our National and International Invited Speakers / Panelists are:

Dr M.S. Vijay Kumar, Associate Dean and Senior Strategic Advisor for Digital Learning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Mr. Gary Fowlie, Chief Media Liaison, UN, International Telecommunication Unit (ITU), Strategy and Policy Unit
Dr Indrajit Banerjee, Director, Knowledge Societies Division, Communication and Information Sector, UNESCO.
Dr Madhav Chavan, Co-founder and CEO of the Educational Non-profit, Pratham
Prof Padma Sarangapani, Professor TISS, Project Director, CLI
Ms Moutushi Sengupta, Director, MacArthur Foundation, India
Prof Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Visiting Professor, IIM Calcutta
Dr. Romit Roy Chowdhury, Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Rajarshi Singh, Consultant at ASER Centre
Ms. Rina Ray, Additional Secretary, MHRD, Education
Mr. Venkat Sriram, Co-Founder, EVidyaloka Trust
Dr. Raju Gopal Gubbi, CEO and Founder, EdZilla
Mr. Biswajit Mitra, Founder, AbhedaFoundation
Mr. Pramod Narendra Shinde,Technical Head Hardware, EPrashala
Mr. Ram Kumar, Founder and CEO, EdWell Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

For more details and registration, click the following link:
http://www.owlishoracle.com/sirgsymposium/