President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday stressed on the need to have increased ‘open’ innovation in the Government to serve citizens better as he was honoured with a global leader award for initiating outstanding innovative programmes from the top office of the country.
“Open innovation is a way to future as it captures knowledge-flow from all sources, both internal and external, in an organisation. Open innovation is most essential for government entities, who are tasked to serve the citizens.
“Placing of data in public domain without compromising the privacy, promotes transparency, innovation and opens up new avenues to solve problems of citizens efficiently and effectively,” Mukherjee said.
He expressed these views after being presented the Garwood Award for ‘Outstanding Global leader in Open Innovation’ by the UC Berkeley-Haas School of Business in California, United States of America, at Rashtrapati Bhavan here.
Mukherjee dedicated the award to people of the country, his staff and colleagues at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, who he said, “rendered their support” to him in improving the lot of common people of India through such initiatives.
Pranab greets Qatar on National Day
New Delhi: Expressing confidence of increasing cooperation between India and Qatar, President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday extended his greetings and felicitations to the Emir and people of the State of Qatar on the eve of their National Day.
In his message to His Highness Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of the State of Qatar, the President said, “On behalf of the Government, the people of India and on my own behalf, I am pleased to extend warm greetings and felicitations to you and to the friendly people of the State of Qatar on the occasion of your National Day.”
Prez on southern sojourn today
Hyderabad: President Pranab Mukherjee would be on a southern sojourn for 14 days starting from Friday to 31 at the Rashtrapati Nilayam here. During the sojourn, the President will attend the convocation of Military College of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering, Secunderabad on December 19, an official release said here on Thursday.