This agreement has stemmed from regular visits of Ottawa LN member Frank Johnson to Chennai where he has addressed the Chennai LN, taken part in their panel discussions and, when he visited in 2016 with his daughter, assisted with the assessment of final year projects on the Internet of Things.
Both Ottawa and Chennai have strong interests in emerging technologies, cybersecurity and communication. Connections such as those made through this MOU help enlarge the vision for engineers in both centres.
The terms of the MOU are ambitious but pragmatic:
- Establish a collaborative space to share ideas and project prototypes
- Establish a group communication channel where members from both groups can communicate freely (a Slack-like messaging channel or some open source version of it)
- Explore student interests to match possible mentors from Ottawa with similar interests
- Collaborate on commercializing some of the promising projects.
- Presentation at Ottawa LN by visitors from KCG on a periodic basis
- Explore the possibility of utilizing IET travel funds/ scholarship funds to support work on special projects.
- Encourage membership in and participation in the IET Internet of Things TPN, driven by real-life applications and projects
- Create joint proposals to Department of Electronics and Information Technology,India under its IoT initiative for funding on research, prototyping, IOT projects
- Matching skills and mentors, with possible Skype meetings to further individual projects.
- Virtual product demos from KCG students to IET Ottawa members periodically (perhaps once a quarter)
- Work on building Social Apps and Social Entrepreneurship projects - IOT for Social Good in the model of Data Science for Social Good (https://dssg.uchicago.edu/)
More details may be obtained on request.