The Institution of Engineers (India), Rourkela local centre celebrated World Telecommunication and Information Society Day and held a talk on ‘ICT Entrepreneurship for Social Impact’ here on Wednesday.
Attending as chief speaker, Prof Pankaj Kumar Sa of the NIT defined ICT as convergence of audio-visual telephone and computer networks. He explained that the broadness of ICT covers any product that will store, retrieve, manipulate, transmit or receive information electronically in a digital form.
He defined entrepreneurship as process of designing, launching and running a new business that offers a product, process or service. Social impact can be defined as the net effect of an activity on a community and the well-being of individuals and families, he added.
His presentation deliberated on how ICT has influenced society in accurate and precise meteorological forecast, perfect identification of particular individuals through machine intelligence.