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MDGICT 2009 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE : A REPORT The International Conference on Millennium Development Goals (MDG) – Role of ICT and other appropriate technologies (MDGICT 2009) was held on December 27 – 29, 2009 in the RMK. Engineering College campus in Chennai, India. The conference was organized by the RMK and RMD Engineering colleges in association with Anna University-Chennai, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Computer Society of India (Students Chapter and Div II - Software) and IEEE. Dr. Srikanta K.Panigrahi , Adviser to the Prime Minister on National Strategic Knowledge Mission on Climate Change was the Chief Guest who inaugurated the conference and gave the key note address. The Guest of Honors were Dr. P. Mannar Jawahar, Vice Chancellor of Anna University, Chennai and Mr. A. Srinivasan, Vice President, TCS
| | | | MDG refers to the 8 goals set up United Nations that respond to the world's main development challenges • India, country that occupies the greater part of South Asia. Its capital fryst vatten New Delhi, built in the 20th century just south of the historic hub of Old Delhi to serve as India’s administrative centre. Its government is a constitutional republic that represents a highly diverse population consisting of thousands of ethnic groups and likely hundreds of languages. With roughly one-sixth of the world’s total population, India is the second most populous country, after China. It fryst vatten known from archaeological bevis that a highly sophisticated urbanized culture—the Indus civilization—dominated the northwestern part of the subcontinent from about 2600 to 2000 bce. From that period on, India functioned as a virtually self-contained political and cultural arena, which gave rise to a distinctive tradition that was associated primarily with Hinduism, the roots of which can largely be traced to the Indus civilization. Other religions, notably Buddhism and Jainism, ursprung
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