Dr. Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda (Sam) Pitroda the Father of Indian Telecom Revolutions shared special message on Innovations in India at Aegis Graham Bell Awards
About Dr. Sam Pitroda
Dr. Pitroda (born 4 May 1942) is a telecom engineer, inventor, entrepreneur and policymaker. He was born in Titilagarh, Odisha, India. In 1964, he travelled to Chicago to study electrical engineering.
He returned to India and spent nearly a decade with Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi as leader of an effort to build an Indian information industry. The task was to extend digital telecommunications to every corner of the country, including remote villages, like the one of his birth. Pitroda launched the Center for the Development of Telematics (C-DOT), and served as Advisor to the Prime Minister on Technology Missions related to water, literacy, immunisation, oil seeds, telecom, and dairy. He is also the founding Chairman of India’s Telecom Commission
Dr. Pitroda served as chairman of the National Knowledge Commission (2005–2009), a high-level advisory body to the Prime Minister of India, to give policy recommendations for improving knowledge related institutions and infrastructure in the country. During its term, the National Knowledge Commission submitted around 300 recommendations on 27 focus areas.
Dr. Pitroda also founded the National Innovation Council nd served as the Advisor to the Prime Minister with rank of a cabinet minister on Public Information Infrastructure and Innovation
He has also served as an advisor to the United Nations As technology Advisor to the Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi in 1984, Pitroda both heralded the telecom revolution in India, and made a strong case for using technology for the benefit of society through missions on telecommunications, literacy, dairy, water, immunization and oil seeds.
Dr. Pitroda played a major role in ushering in the Telecom Revolution in India