Indian National Expert Advisory Team (i NEAT)

 Indian National Expert Advisory Team (i NEAT)

I prepared the following strategy documents on March 6 and 7, 2014

1. Indian Algal Strategy
2. Nano and Micro in Healthcare
3. Indian Geo Thermal Strategy
4. Indian Healthcare and Pharma Strategy - More on Biotech is under preparation
5. Management of Animal Waste and Energy for the Nation (MAWEN)

Already Prepared and Submitted to Indian National Expert Advisory Team (i NEAT)

1. De-urbanization Strategy for India
2. Indian Energy Strategy
3. Indian Education Strategy
4. Indian Nano Strategy
5. Indian big Data Strategy

Under preparation:

1. Indian National Wind Energy Strategy
2. Indian National Fuel Cell Energy Strategy
3. Indian Precision and Intelligent Agriculture Strategy
4. Indian Urban Garden Strategy
5. Indian Natural Gas Strategy
6. Indian Algae Clean Up and Beautification Strategy
7. Indian Accelerated Forestation and Reforestation Strategy
8. Indian Accelerated Urban and Highway Beautification Strategy
9. Indian Technology Incubator and Business Accelerator Strategy
10. Indian Banking and Finance Reform Strategy
11. National Ethical Emergency Transformation for India (NEETi)
12. 21st Century Ayurveda Revolution

Big Data is a Mega Trend Opportunity at Global Level

Big Data is a Mega Trend Opportunity at Global Level

Background:

The citizens of the world today are producing more data than ever in the history. Without consciously thinking about it, their mobile handsets, their bank and credit card type transactions, while at home, driving around and even their very homes are producing “big data”. We do not speak of giga or terra anymore, already in peta, and soon exa and in the upcoming years zetta and much larger numbers of bytes of data. Please note that each of these measures of data are progressively 1000 times the previous.

There is inflation or explosion of data volumes, and we have recently crossed inflection point or the cusp of this unprecedented and accelerated growth of data. As a futurist, Dr. KRS Murthy professes that (big) data will be the new international currency, with various big data bartering, trading and swaps becoming a common thing of the upcoming years.

Big data is a 'gigantic creature' that seems to grow with unending appetite. Big data technology in different market verticals aims to tame this 'creature' and even domesticate to use it as a tool to make predictions and find the most critical and actionable items of intelligence.

Increasingly, this must be accomplished in near-real time and the information must be packaged in a format capable of being shared with all other pertinent parties. The result is that sensor, computer and communication technologies are being strained beyond capacity to keep pace with current and future information management and analysis needs. ‘Big Data’ tools, techniques, and technologies seek to provide the means to analyze exploit and share conclusions drawn from this seemingly overwhelming information load.

Presentation Theme and Summary:

The Big Data phenomenon is not limited to a particular company or enterprise, or even one or few products or services. The phenomenon is global, and the big data wave is certain to change all countries in all continents on the globe forever.

Big data strategy is an imperative that cannot be ignored by any country or company. Conglomerates may have multiple product lines or lines of businesses made up of many business units, related or unrelated. Big data strategy could be in silos if the businesses of the conglomerate are not related. For mutually related business units, an integrated strategy would be a must.

Industry or vertical wide big data strategy would apply for industry associations with many companies in that industry are members. The big data strategy would encompass issues and commonalities between the member companies of the industry association.

A national level or state / province level big data strategy is very important to ensure the prudent big data policies drive the big data strategy. It would also be helpful to revisit the national, state or province level strategy from big data perspective.

Let us take examples of national or state / province level big data strategy. For example, energy department in a country like USA needs big data strategy, to leverage and exploit to the full extent the immense power of big data, not only in the legacy energy technologies and infrastructure, and surely in alternative or green technologies.

The “internet of things”, made up of wireless sensor networks (WSN) in the energy generation, transmission and surely in the distribution segments, should fully incorporate smart grid features with monitoring devices in residences, commercial buildings, industrial buildings and also military building and campuses. WSN embedding is pertinent in outdoor lighting, street lighting and lighting in highways, freeways, parks, airports etc.

The WSN would generate data every minute, hour, day, week, month and the whole year, needing big data methodologies to derive the best value for prudent actionable and decision knowledge.

About the Speaker:

Dr. KRS Murthy is an international expert in big data, and especially big data strategy. He
has delivered over 150 key note speeches, hundreds of talks, and chaired sessions in numerous sessions and panel in many parts of the world. He is also a big data strategist and futurist.

Murthy has managed very large small to very large departments, divisions, business units and companies, from 50 to 2000 professionals and achieved accelerated corporate growth in telecom companies, including some of the fastest growing companies in USA. One of the companies grew from $60M in revenue to $550M and a corporate valuation of $3.5B in only one year.

Murthy has shared the stage with Who’s Who in USA and the world. He was a corporate executive in GE, AT&T and few private companies.

Indian National Nano Industry Strategy

Indian National Nano Industry Strategy

Leader: Dr. KRS Murthy, Reputed Nano Expert; 120 events, 30 international conferences; networked all around the world in nano technology R&D and Industry. Dr.Sri.Murthy@Gmail.Com

Strategies to make Nano Technology a GIGA Dollar Industry

Background:

1.     India has missed to become the center of excellence in many technology and industry areas in the past decades in the previous century and this century. We missed the opportunities in semiconductors, when Japan and China exploited the off shore manufacturing opportunity.

2.     Taiwan established and grew ITRI Industrial Technology Research Institute https://www.itri.org.tw/eng which has over six thousand strong expert team.

3.     Taiwan became the stepping stone for mainland China to take world leadership.

4.     Japan had earlier used MITI (Ministry of International Trade and Industry) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_International_Trade_and_Industry in the previous decades.

5.     Even Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand have exploited opportunities in semiconductor components and products manufacturing.

6.     If India misses the potential “nano advantage” right away in 2014, the country will lag behind for the future decades.

7.     It is imperative that India takes quick leadership initiatives in nano science to become nano engineering, nano based products, nano manufacturing and set up a supply chain infrastructure in the nano industry.

Here are things that we plan to add value to the initiative:

1.     Identify domestic nano technologists, semiconductor experts especially those working at nano scale processes, nano-bio, nano based agriculture, nano based cosmetics, nano composites specialists, nano based clean / green energy experts, material scientists and technologists with nano focus, administrators who could bring various resources, government R&D laboratories with interest or work in nano, investors / sponsors, universities with nano work or interest other nano enthusiasts.

2.     Provide domestic leaders and professionals who can coordinate all local resources and planning for conferences in different parts of the country. Conferences and workshops are occasions for experts and aspiring professionals and students to share and inspire. These events will be hotbeds for idea and start up incubation.

3.     Empower industry leaders and other leaders with ability to influence, state and national level decision makers for round table caucus events across the country.

4.     Organize special strategy meetings with potential decision makers at state and national levels.

Value Creation and Addition:

1.     We will bring international experts to match the national needs.

2.     We will chair the events and promote the different levels of team members.

3.     Lecture, coach, train and arrange for international experts team to provide technology transfer.

Targeted Outcome:

1.     Enable the country to be a leader in nano industry

2.     Create various nano industrial parks in different parts of the country

3.     Create and promote market opportunities for various nano products, services, intellectual property and supply chain in the country and also internationally.

4.     Develop an aggressive intellectual property and proprietary knowledge base road map.

5.     Accelerate IP assets and national competitiveness in nano science, technology, engineering, manufacturing and all logistics, to make the country world leading IP assets treasury.

6.     Develop a product action plan to monetize the IP assets domestically and internationally

7.     Develop road map and implement engineering and manufacturing infrastructure for nano industry in supply chain, nano products, and also services and products and services in the mainstream industry domestically and internationally that utilize and leverage on nano products and services.

8.     Establish a nano industry specific national quality and standards programs, institutes and companies.

9.     Establish nano industry publications like journals and magazines and also coverage in existing popular media.

10.   Organize ongoing lecture programs, training, continuing education, meetings and conferences with focus on nano science, technology, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain and value chain to the mainstream industries for new entrant talent pool, nano practitioners, schools, colleges, universities and R&D labs, managers, executives, government leaders and general public.

11.   Create opportunities for various supply chain infrastructure related ecosystem in the country, the nano industrial parks.

12.   Create numerous levels of nano industry experts resulting from the events

13.   Establish programs and Centers of Excellence to train college and university students in nano industrial skills

14.   Establish programs in K-12 school system to teach basics of nano science and technology, using unique teaching methodologies

NEXT STEP:

Invitations will be sent to World’s Nano and Manufacturing Industry Experts to Join:

National Nano Industry Strategy Team (NanoNIST)

We will incorporate other industry experts, as well as industry and government leaders in this very important initiative.

Indian Energy Infrastructure Strategy

Leader: Dr. KRS Murthy, Inventor and Reputed Energy Expert with inventions in few Energy Areas;; Led three energy companies; Expertise in multiple energy technologies;  Key Note Speaker; Networked all around the world in Energy R&D and Industry. Dr.Sri.Murthy@Gmail.Com

1.     India seriously lacks energy infrastructure in all traditional and green technologies

2.     If India wants to grow faster and take international leadership, energy infrastructure is fundamental.

3.     Only a holistic energy strategy, incorporating all technologies and types, and in all parts of India without neglecting any state or region can ensure energy security.

4.     Multiplicity of energy generation technologies is the only way for India.

5.     Centralized, as well as distributed energy generation infrastructure should be deployed.

6.     Solar farms, as well as, roof top installations would serve a variety of electricity needs.

7.     Wind energy using wind turbines inland, onshore and offshore of the vast Indian coastline should be adopted.

8.     Innovative biomass to energy, algal biofuel, fuel cells and natural gas are some of the energy sources in addition to legacy hydroelectric, coal and nuclear technologies would give diversity of energy sources.

9.     Diversity is also the key to energy security.

10.   Domestic manufacture of all or most components and systems will not only create jobs, and also will enable industries to operate with energy availability 24 X 7.

11.   India has missed recent decade’s international and domestic energy opportunities, wrongly focusing on imports, thus neglecting supply chain infrastructure.

12.   Energy, along with transportation and clean water infrastructure, should be the MOST IMPORTANT initiative for Indian government.

ENERGY STORAGE

1.     Energy storage technology and infrastructure should be an integral part of Indian energy strategy.

2.     Energy storage should multiple hierarchical, to include storage at the source of energy generation, many intermediary stages of electrical grid / transport and also at the distribution levels close to the consumption.

3.     This is achieved by installing appropriate size and type of storage all along the long distance electrical transport grid, as well as distributed in the local electricity distribution infrastructure.

4.     Additionally, the residential, industrial, commercial and military electricity consumers may install their own energy storage.

5.     It is also technologically imperative that smart grid is installed to sense and monitor usage and load to enable storage infrastructure to respond and adaptively shift electricity distribution.

6.     Singular energy technology should not be the approach.

7.     Rather, multiplicity of energy storage technologies to suit the response need should be employed and installed.

Energy Education and Work Force Empowerment:

1.     India should train many thousands of installation, operation and maintenance professionals in different energy technologies, not limited to college and university degrees, but in massive scale in vocational schools for one, two and three year diplomas, focused on hands-on training and immediate employability.

2.     These vocational schools / colleges should be in B, C and D levels, as well as smaller institutes in village centers, and surely away from A level cities.

3.     This is also Murthy’s vision of reduced urbanization and broader scale extended educational and industrial initiatives for India.

4.     This is the key for uniform growth in all regions of India.

5.     Vocational institutes also enable and empower youth at grass roots level, especially for poor and disadvantaged families to get quickly educated, employed and move up.

6.     These diploma graduates will also get to learn on the job, and have a chance to get motivated to pursue higher degree education on sabbatical basis.

7.     These skilled professionals may be in demand, not only within India, and also in foreign lands, as we have seen the successful Indian IT professionals all around the world.

8.     Japan would need many thousand installation, operation and maintenance professionals in their impending revamped energy infrastructure.

Vision Sharing and Build Teams

1.     Identify, evaluate and prioritize the appropriate energy generation, distribution and storage needs across India in all parts and regions.

2.     Utilize domestic expertise and induct internal expertise, both NRIs and foreigners for all aspects and stages of the process.

3.     Events and conferences in different parts of the country to share the Indian energy vision and induct team members to participate in implementation.

4.     These events will be hotbeds for idea and start up incubation.

5.     Empower industry leaders and other leaders with ability to influence, state and national level decision makers for round table caucus events across the country.

6.     Organize special strategy meetings with potential decision makers at state and national levels.

7.     We will bring international experts to match the national needs.

8.     We will chair the events and promote the different levels of team members.

9.     Lecture, coach, train and arrange for international experts team to provide technology transfer.

Targeted Outcome:

1.     Enable the country to be self-sufficient and secure in all its energy needs, covering from villages to urban metropolises.

2.     Create various energy R&D and manufacturing industrial parks in different parts of the country

3.     Create and promote market opportunities for various energy products, services, solutions, intellectual property and supply chain in the country and also internationally.

4.     Develop an aggressive intellectual property and proprietary knowledge base road map in various energy technologies at an accelerated pace of IP assets treasury and national competitiveness.

5.     Develop a product action plan to monetize the IP assets domestically and internationally

6.     Develop road map and implement engineering and manufacturing infrastructure for multiplicities of energy industries in supply chain, products, solutions and services.

7.     Establish energy industry specific national quality and standards programs, institutes and companies.

8.     Establish energy industry publications like journals and magazines and also coverage in existing popular media.

9.     Organize ongoing lecture programs, training, continuing education, meetings and conferences with focus on a variety of energy options for practitioners, schools, colleges, universities and R&D labs, managers, executives, government leaders and general public.

10.   Establish programs and Centers of Excellence  and create opportunities for various energy industry supply chain infrastructure related ecosystem in the country, the energy R&D and manufacturing industrial parks.

11.   Establish programs in K-12 school system to teach basics of energy technologies, using unique teaching methodologies

Innovative Indian Education Strategy

Leader: Dr. KRS Murthy;;Top rated and award winning professor and professor of five departments; ,Founding advisory member  and board of trustee to University of California System and few other universities in USA.  Famous key note speaker with over 150 key notes and few hundred international conference session chair / speaker Dr.Sri.Murthy@Gmail.Com

Gaps and Challenges in Indian Education System

1.      Indian education system has many gaps and inadequacies at all levels from Kindergarten through high school, all levels of the college education, applicable to all disciplines and specializations

2.     The students at all levels have mostly theoretical education with subjects of outdated curriculum, with very little and outdated practical and hands-on learning.

3.     The tests and examinations stress memorizing and not creative thinking and problem solving.

4.     The teachers and college faulty are life time educationists with very little to no practical industry experience in all subjects, thus unable to impart hands-on education and training to their students.

5.     None of this negative a reflection on the students nor teacher, except the systemic legacies in all schools and colleges.

6.     India needs innovative approaches to empower teachers and students to learn real world skills and knowledge

Approach to Innovative and Practical Education

1.      For example, energy department in a country like India needs big data strategy, to leverage and exploit to the full extent the immense power of big data, not only in the legacy energy technologies and infrastructure, and surely in alternative or green technologies.

2.     Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) in the energy generation, transmission and surely in the distribution segments, fully incorporating smart grid features with monitoring devices in residences, commercial buildings, industrial buildings and also military building and campuses.

3.     WSN embedding is pertinent in outdoor lighting, street lighting and lighting in highways, freeways, parks, airports etc.

4.     The WSN would generate data every minute, hour, day, week, month and the whole year, needing big data methodologies to derive the best value for prudent actionable and decision knowledge.

5.     Similarly, the state / province and national departments where big data strategy would be needed include: Department of Transportation, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of the Interior, Department of Commerce, the intelligence agencies, the different defense departments, Department of Education, Homeland Security, Department of Finance, Department of Treasury, the list too long to list them all.

6.     Whether it is for a company or enterprise, industry vertical, state or national agencies and departments, the strategic approach would always start at policy level.

7.     Big data policy may be revisited, and from it big data procedures are developed, trickling logically down to processes at different levels.

8.     A reverse big data value chain analysis from processes up to procedures and further up to policies would also be appropriate.

9.     Each big data policy item may generate and demand multiple big data procedures pertinent to different business units, departments and functional entities.

10.   For example, the human resources, finance and accounting, the supply chain, purchase, inventory, shipping, R&D, engineering, manufacturing and assembly, marketing, sales and business development, customer service and field operations would derive and conform to higher level big data processes and procedures in terms of big data value.

11.    Even the ISO and other industry standard compliance would have big data dimension or aspect to them.

12.   Industry wide supply chain dependency should have, along with supply chain standards compliance and bench marking, big data strategy, procedures and processes fully integrated and monitored, measured and bench marked with continuous improvement leveraging and exploiting on the big data power.

13.   Big data fully integrated at strategy, policy procedure and processes, when prudently and diligently implemented and exploited will be pivotal for national competitiveness.

14.   Big data has the power to help exhaustively utilize every point of monitoring, measurement, trending, decision making, control and continuous improvement, which exhaustiveness never existed in the human technological history.

15.   I would urge companies, enterprises, industry verticals, industry associations and governments quickly build their big data capability and infrastructure, or else they may be left behind.

16.   Even countries not in the international technological league can benefit from the big data revolution.

Big Data Education and Training

17.   Training many types of big data professionals is the way to lay the foundation for countries to enter and competitively move ahead t the international level.

18.   To be able to have enough big data workforce to encompass all aspects and functions is also very important, because a proper balance to cover all professional categories needed in big data implementation is very vital and prudent.

19.   To be able to conceive, design, develop and market variety of big data computing, processing, manipulation, streaming and staging, storage, querying, statistical tool development and augmentation, data science, business intelligence analysis, visualization, networking and communication for synchronous and asynchronous processes would require professionals of different technology skills and expertise, at the same time business, management and support professionals properly trained for their respective professions and functions.

20.   All around the world today, focus is mostly on developers, coders, data base professionals and architects.

21.   The companies, industries, industry associations, states, provinces and nations seem to be limited to a small section of the needed talent development.

22.   The primary reason is that most companies, industries and governments do not understand big data technology, tools, needed professionals, training and continuing education, especially strategic level.

23.   Country like India needs a Big Data Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Big Data Chief Strategy Officer (CSO).

24.   India can’t afford to repeat appointing novices for these types of very important positions, as it has done in the history of India.

25.   To be a CIO or CSO requires decades track record in similar functions.

26.   Especially to be a CIO or CSO at India country level, the person needs track record at large enough level to merit being and functioning at national level.

27.   Appointing poorly qualified and intellectually ill equipped individuals driven only by political motivation surely indicates lack of vision at decision making level, as viewed internationally.

28.   As most of the appointments at many levels in India are politically motivated and big posts are politically appointed, with very little regard to experience, wisdom and track record, I am particularly afraid that India will miss the boat again in big data, as it has already missed areas like manufacturing, automobiles and alternation energy, finance and banking, as only examples, becoming completely and irrevocably dependent on other countries.

Role of Colleges and Universities

1.      The educational institutions, at school, college, university levels and also the Department of Education need to act urgently to train students, along with a supplemental continuing education program, large number of professionals in the areas already listed by me.

2.     Based on my initial high level estimate, I strongly feel that the universities need to act very fast, as the man power requirement not only India and also USA, EU and other parts of Asia to fill the big data professionals needed is so large that India may lag behind, and living a void for other countries to fill them, thus further increasing dependence of India on other countries.

NOTE:

I am currently estimating the required number of trained professionals for different categories. I will be open to co-opting team members in this estimating endeavor.

Please contact me at: (408)-464-3333 bigdataexpert@gmail.com, expertboardadviser@gmail.com or ICubed.Murthy@Gmail.com