role of internet in research

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Role of Information

Technology in Research

Umesh kumar arya

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•Computers were designed to calculate but they are used more in communication these days.

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Types of People

Cyber optimist

Cyber pessimist

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Cyber optimist

•Technology savvy•No belief in indigenous & traditional knowledge

•Cyber chauvinist•Superiority complex•Young folks

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Cyber pessimist

•Technology is a curse•Traditionalist•Old fashioned ideas •Inferiority complex•Technophobia•old age

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Soft boiled egg rule

Any software should not take more than 5 minutes for a common man to understand.

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Cyber rationalist

• Rational use of technology. (Bill Gates)

• Traditional & technological• Stress on real value (what computer can really

do for you). • Respect for indigenous knowledge• Creative & smart

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Moore’s law

•Technology becomes half in price and double in speed in every six months.

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Metcalf ‘s law

• Utility of a communication network is proportional to the square of the number of users of the system

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Types of skills

•Hard skills•Soft skills

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Need

•A gap between “what is” and “what should be”.

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Types of Needs

•Real needs

• Manufactured needs

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Third wave – Alvin Toffler

•First wave – agriculture•Second wave – industrial•Third wave - information

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Why Computers & Internet?

It is difficult for the organizations to survive if they are not the part of network – Manuel Castells

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Really important?

GDP share = 4.1% (2004)

10 lacs jobs by 2010Important driver in economyAhead of China in software.

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Benefits

• Easy, Fast & Convenient and efficient.• Information management – data storage,

security, processing, retrieval and application.

• Competitive advantage• Truly democratic• Seamless creativity.

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•Unique identity to every citizen.

•Endless applications.•Platform to express your opinions.

•Multitasking is possible.•IT teaches Management techniques

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Agriculture uses

1. The software to identify the weeds in India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh is under development in the DWR by Indian and European scientists. It would help identify the weeds by photo and display the methods to control them. anonymous, “Kharpatvar ki pehchan aur nijat ke upaaye batayega software,” Dainik Bhaskar, 29 September 2004, p. 1.

2. The National Mission for Manuscripts is planning to digitize 21,000 rare Indian palm leaf manuscripts as part of Rs 1 crore pilot project in Orissa and Assam through a NIC built customized software called ‘e-granthavali’. Mohapatra Satyen, “Saving heritage: 21,000 manuscripts to be digitized”, 22 December 2004, p.g. 7

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1. The Patent offices worldwide are in the process of digitizing their millions of records in hardcopies in order to better retrieve and manage the patenting process.”Patent problems”, Economic Times, 7 April 2005, p.g. 11

• The National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (NISCAIR) has intensified efforts to convert about 23,000 new Ayurvedic medicine formulations by mid 2005, 77,000 Unani medicine formulations by mid 2006 and knowledge of Yoga in a digitized format compatible with International Patent Classification. The Institute aims to protect the country’s own traditional knowledge base to avoid misappropriated and patented abroad. Das Mamuni, “Govt. intensifies efforts to digitize traditional knowledge base”, Business Line, 25 December 2004, p.g. 1

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Research websites

• www.writely.com• www.blogger.com• www.a9.com and www.clusty.com• www.downloads.google.com• www.allconferences.net• www.freetranslation.com

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• www.topicalizer.com• www.riya.com• www.skype.com• www.ebay.in• www.monster.com• www.freelanceindia.com

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Thank you

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