Purpose

• In Government BI existence is very primitive
• Challenge is to democratize BI taking BI to masses
• Close Group will have BI experts representing multiple verticals like Vendors, Research, Media, Corporate & Government
• Representatives will meet to exchange ideas and listen to presentations by industry experts
• Topic focus will be on BI awareness, benefits, application, consumption, proliferation & discussing the latest industry news and exciting new trends
• Good news - current policy, legislation, and active support for the metrics-driven management processes that align so well with BI and DW
• Government leaders are upbeat and positive, stating that while there is much work left to be done, progress is being made
• Best practices developed & applied in large corporations provide powerful starting point for addressing challenges unique to government agencies

Agenda

• Lot of technology is available in BI and more is in the pipe line but the leaves us with the basic question on adoption by users in mass
• Challenge to identify appropriate segment of users to proliferate BI
• How can one create a large, BI users in Government containing a significant collection of explicitly identified BI benefits & with sufficient data to track their growth and evolution over a period
• Right Sized Funding to ensure education & motivation to adopt BI
• Average tenure of a political appointee is less than 24 months, which doesn’t leave much time to design and lead long-term, organization-changing initiatives such as BI
• How to tackle the above challenges

G.I.T.A. (Government Insight Through Analytics) - A closed user group was announced at the fifth Technology Sabha held at Goa on January 30, 2009.

About Ravi Kant Gupta, Deputy Director General, National Informatics Centre (NIC)

• Holds a Post Graduate Degree in Statistics with specialization in Operation Research from the University of Delhi in the year 1971
• Currently working as Deputy Director General and Head - Business Intelligence, Modeling and Simulation Division
• Previous assignments includes Research Associates at Institute of Economic Growth, Scientists at Defense R & D Organization, CSIR - Indian Institute of Petroleum, Central Road Research Institute
• Since 1985 working at National Informatics Centre, Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Ministry of Communication and IT
• He has to his credit major activities involving association with 147 projects; 123 studies, 227 systems, 117 technical papers and 47 research papers and has participated in more than 57 national and international conference
  
  
  

For more details contact: ravi.rkg@gmail.com, rkg@nic.in, sanjaymehta@maia-intelligence.com