1. Digitally empowering India through
Innovative and Dynamic IT
Curriculums
Vayam Technologies Limited
CICON-2015:National Conference on Emerging Trends
in Science, Engineering, Technology and Management
Research & Development

2. Nine Pillars of Digital India

3. What is Special in Digital India
 Has given a mission and direction to the entire IT industry.
 Given a vital link between education-IT as a sector –Job
creation.
 Domestic Manufacturing –IT sector for enterprenuel
encouragements.
 Specified the segments in which IT will move in another 5
years.

4. How Prepared Education Institutes
are for Digital India
 Gradual Education process from technology orientation –STEM + CS
from schooling
 Chronic shortage of faculty specially in Technical domain.
 Most faculty are not updated in Technology being trained in institutes.
 Outdated, rigid curricula and the absence of industry involvement in
course content and skills development.
 Very few opportunities for interdisciplinary learning.
 Students have little opportunity to develop a wider range of transversal
skills, critical thinking, analytical reasoning, problem-solving and
collaborative working.

5. How Prepared Education Institutes are
for Digital India
 High student: teacher ratio, due to the lack of teaching staff and
pressure to enrol more students.
 Separation of research and teaching; lack of early stage research
experience.
 An ineffective quality assurance system and a complete lack of
accountability by institutions to the state and central government,
students and other stakeholders.
 Over the last decade, the diversity of courses offered by
universities and colleges has narrowed, resulting in saturated
markets for engineers, technology graduates and MBAs

6. IT Sector Composition
NASSCOM and IMaCS

7. Forecasted IT and ITES Industry
by 2022

8. Fulfilling the Gap
Continuing demand for a skilled workforce. ƒ
Continuing and building upon transformation from IT
Services to include IT Consulting: need to build consulting
capabilities (architecture, application selection, solutioning,
process engineering/re-engineering) ƒ
Ability to Innovate: need to straddle the value-chain right
from inventing to innovating to implementing till
enhancing. ƒ
Increasing play in Migration Projects: while maintenance
will dominate , increasing share of projects involving
migration across systems and platforms.
Green IT and Cloud Computing: Green buildings, Green
computing infrastructure

9. Fulfilling the gap
 Increasing share of other business verticals: dominated
by the BFSI segment, increased share from segments
such as Retail, Telecom, Healthcare, Technology, etc.
Increasing play of Infrastructure Management Services:
including ITIL management, and IT Service
Management. ƒ
Larger share of newer markets: The industry is likely to
see increasing share from continental Europe, Japan,
and even continents such as Africa and Latin America. ƒ
Increasing play in the Indian market: Evolution of newer
pricing models
The emergence of newer pricing models such as
‘outcome based pricing’ will demand higher productivity.

10. Potential area of skill building
NSDC

11. Suggestive Curriculum
Product design and entrepreneurship:
 Artificial Intelligence and artificial neural networks.
 Programing and Robotics
 Sensor based embedded technologies and Internet of things
 Semi Conductors testing
 3D printing technology
Simulation and high level programming:
 Simulations in computation technology
 Fuzzy logics and decision support systems

12. Suggested Curriculum
Programming and analytics
 Adaptated Information services and how it is used on data
generated from social media. It has to involve big data
analytics components
 Cloud computing: Concept realization, knowledge
realization and benefits realization
 Statistical methods , Data analytics , data intelligence and
predictive and forecasting models to be used for
monitoring and evaluation of projects, for metrological
and crop forecasting; logistics optimization etc.
 Open Source technologies

13. Suggestive Curriculum
 Imaging and precision technologies:
 Remote Sensing Technologies
 Precision technologies
 Imaging technologies and science of biometrics
 IT Management:
 ICT project management approaches
 ICT for Development
 Application of Informatics sciences in different domains: health,
education, bio-informatics, agriinformatics, financial services, e-
governance, environment management
 Information security mechanisms
 Mobile Computing and Apps development

14. Focus
 there has been a significant shift in the recent years towards
having as much electronics and software driven control as
possible and this has made the control hardware and
embedded software significantly critical sufficiently complex.
 To be able to offer product design services catering to
products with complex end user requirements, we have built
a highly talented team with deep expertise in system
engineering and hardware software co-engineering coupled
with strong domain engineering.

15. Focus

16. Focus
 Adopting BYOD: Bring your own Device.
 IOT innovation clusters with SMEs
 Universities have to actively participate in alliances with SMEs to
develop the country’s manufacturing supply chain of digitally
connected products
 The role of the clusters will be to jointly conduct Research and
development, ranging from early-stage research through to
bringing maturing technologies closer to market, Training and
development to build skills and capability, innovation
management and technology transfer, and Technology
showcasing and business mentoring.
 Advantage from Government’s initiatives in promoting
R&D

17. Conclusion
 National Skill Development program provides big
opportunities, let take advantage of it.
 Promote R&D. Universities shall be made entrepreneural
embryos.
 It shall be Dynamic.
 Close tie-up with Product companies for Knowledge transfers
 Tie up for

18. Building the ecosystem
STAKE HOLDER PROCESS VALUE ADDITION
Students
Education Institutes
Corporate Univ.
Alumni
Industry
Academe
Business
Government
Corporates
Government
Society
(Edu. & training) from
schools
design & innovative
competency.
Collaborative
Interactions
Technology- Enhanced
learning
R&D Consultancy
Continuing edu
Entrepreneurship
development
Education Cost,
governance structure
Academic
leaderships
Innovative environment
Career, Livelihood
Enterprenuers,
Livelihood
Tangible Intangible
support
Competent workforce
with analytical skills
Technology, Product,
processes
Upto date workforce
Competencies
Industrial & economic
Development
Socio-economic
Development