The Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad (IIIT-A) will be organizing an international seminar on ‘Education, Innovation and Society’ on July 10 at the India International Center, New Delhi.

IIIT-A director MD Tiwari said that globalization and technological developments have thrown up challenges and opportunities for Indian institutions of higher education. “Globally, innovation has been recognised as a key enabler for sustained economic development, strengthening social development and social cohesion. Hence we have to innovate,” he said.

The theme of this four-session seminar is to deliberate on interlinkage of education, innovation and society to accelerate Indias integration with the growing global and knowledge based economy.

The resource people will be Prof Yash Pal, prominent scientist and educationist; T Ramasami, secretary Department of Science and Technology; Kamlesh N Agarwala, Prof GN Pandey, Indian Institute of Information Technology-Allahabad; Prof SV Raghavan, Network Systems Laboratory Department of Computer Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Madras; Prof Shridhar Dwivedi, Hamdard Institute of Medical Sciences and Research; Pramod Joshi, Project Director; Shiv Nadar Foundation Noida; ML Goyal Director MAIT Delhi Rohini, Delhi; Sudhir K Jain, Director, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar Vishwakarma Govt Engg College Complex Chandkheda, Visat-Gandhinagar Highway Ahmedabad; Deepak Bhatnagar, Head, Centre for International Trade in Technology(CITT), and Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), (Deemed University under Ministry of Commerce &Industry).