About Digital India Week

In July 2015, our Prime Minister had launched Digital India Week (DIW). The vision of DIW are as follows:

(i)     Digital Infrastructure as a Utility to Every Citizen
(ii)    Governance & Services on Demand and
(iii)   Digital Empowerment of Citizens

Hence from UPES, our CIT department (School of Computer Science and Engineering) has initiated the celebration of DIW from October 2015. Alongwith the contribution towards Government of India our objective are awareness of Digital Security/safety and cyber law concerns as well. With the help of events and technical talks by industry experts we successfully achieve our objectives.

History of DIW17

In 2015 (30 October-4th November 2015), the main theme of DIW was to enlighten the focus of our youth generation towards digitization. Basically, it is an umbrella Programme that covers all departments/verticals/colleges. It weaves together a large number of ideas and thoughts into a single, comprehensive vision so that each of them is seen as part of a larger goal.

Following eminent speakers from the industries called for the talk:

October 30th – Inauguration and talk by Dr. Bivas Chaterjee, Public Prosecutor, GOI
November 4th: Talk on Application and Mobile Security by Mr OoPpSs , Sr. Cyber Security Expert, i3indya Technologies

Along with the talks mentioned above, many events like poster presentation, Essay Competition and for group discussion on e-learning/IT security awareness were conducted for students.

Layout of DIW17

After the success of DIW’15, this year we are celebrating DIW’17 with a theme of Demonetization; finalized dates are 21st to 23rd March 2017. This time we are planning to conduct DIW on a national level. We are conducting various interesting online/offline events like Money-toons; Capture the flag, Gaming and Dart based events for students of different institutions of India.

Along with these events we are calling following industry experts for a talk and panel discussion with students:

  1. Dr. Bivas Chaterjee, Public Executer, GOI
  2. Mr. Manish Gupta, Regional Business Manager ( India), Gemalto
  3. Mr. Ramandeep Singh, CEO at QOS Technology
  4. Mr. Sandeep Kumar, Director at Konnected Mindz Mobile Solutions
  5. Mr. Venkata Maruti, Project Leader at DE Shaw