Thursday, January 17, 2008

Sibal launches web portal for PIOs

he Centre on Wednesday, launched a web portal to enable professionals of Indian origin in the US exchange ideas and forge partnerships.

Minister for Science and Technology Kapil Sibal launched www.piousnetwork.com where details of where details of more than 200 groups of professionals have already been collected.

"Information has also been collected on more than 20,000 records of innovations and patents in the last few years that include large number of professionals of Indian origin," Sibal said.

He said this data will be useful to identify innovators and their technologies to build partnerships.

The members joining this initiative on a voluntary basis will have the benefit of interacting with the professionals in their areas.

The portal will also help in providing timely information to the members on important happenings and events in their professional fields both in India and the US.

Sibal said the government has spent one lakh dollars on the initiative and expects the portal to be a self-financing one in the next year.

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