Digital Gangetic Plains
Media Lab Asia Kanpur-Lucknow Lab




Events

Tele Transmission Of Eye Surgery

April 17, 2005 Dr.J.K.Shah at Akshi Eye Care Centre, clinic of Dr.Malay Chaturvedi, Azad Nagar did 10 successful eye surgery and those operations were displayed to many doctors at L14, IIT Kanpur live. That was the first Tele Transmission Of Eye Surgery in the Indian history. We have established a wireless link between Akshi eye care centre and L14 in two hops. One hop was between Akshi and BSNL tower at MLA and second one was between BSNL tower at MLA and L14, IIT kanpur. Akshi was the transmitter and L14 was the receiver.

Raj Nath at Sawayajpur

Feb 13, 2004 Shri Rajnath Singh hon'ble Agriculture minister at Pali Sawayajpur did Video Confrencing to Dr. Sar Nath Singh prominent Agricultere Scientist at IISTEM Banthar Dist. Unnao using INFO THELA for DIGITAL MANDI.

DGP PARTICIPATION in Asia's IT Ministers Meet

Jan13, 2004  DGP Participated in Asia's I T Ministers meet at Hyderabad . DGP demonstrate it's applications e.g.- Digital Mandi , Tele medicine on "INFO - THELA". medicine

IT Secretary visits

July 18, 2003 IT Secretary Mr. K. K. Jaiswal and Mr. Taneja CEO MLA visited IIT Kanpur, interacted with different research teams and assessed the developments of research activities. They also visited DGP's latest outdoor installations at IISTEM Banthar.

Dr. K. Harinarayana visited Sarauhan

June 18, 2003  Dr. K. Harinarayana, Vice-Chancellor Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad  visited Sarauhan.

Teams from ITI and AIR visited Sarauhan

June 4, 2003  Teams from Indian Telephone Industries and All India Radio visited Sarauhan.

Mr Radhakrishnan from ITC visited Sarauhan

June 2, 2003 Mr. Radhakrishnan from ITC visited sarauhan.

Shyamal Ghosh visited Sarauhan

May 6, 2003  Mr. Shyamal Ghosh, Head USO fund along with Mr. N. K. Mangala, Sr. Deputy Director General, Dept. of Telecommunication, visited Sarauhan.

DGP participated in ELITEX 2003

April 28,29 2003. DGP team demonstrated the utility of Wi-Fi during ELITEX 2003 organized at India Habitat Centre by Deptt. of Information Technology, Govt. of India.

Connectivity to Ambedkar Mela, Lucknow

April 14 -16 2003, DGP team extended the network of STPI Lucknow and lighten up the Ambedkar mela organised by UP Goverment at Laxman mela ground, Lucknow. 

Dr. Anandan from Microsoft visited Sarauhan

March 25, 2003  Dr. Anandan from Microsoft along with MLA MD Vishnu Pradhan visited Sarauhan.

Media coverage at Sarauhan

March 13, 2003 Director IITK announced the completion of Kanpur Lucknow Link to Media at Sarauhan. The observers were very impressed to see the speed of internet, quality of video conferencing and VOIP phone. 

Intel team at Sarauhan

March 6, 2003  Mr. Ram from Intel India visited Sarauhan.

CEO, Media Lab Asia at Sarauhan

March 4, 2003 MLA CEO Mr. Bimal Sareen, MD Vishnu Pradhan, GM Atanu Mukherjee  along with Media Lab Asia  members visited Sarauhan. 

Media Manager of MLA, Mumbai at Bithoor

February 26, 2003  Media Manager of Media Lab Asia Mr. Venkatesh visited Bithoor.

One day PCO at Sarauhan

A PCO experiment was conducted at Sarauhan using 802.11 as proof-of-concept that phone calls can be made over an 802.11 network. This created great excitement among the villagers who got this facility very first time in their village for which they had to walk five kilometers to reach the nearest PCO (Public Call Office).

IT Secretary visits Sarauhan

January 4, 2003  Mr. Rajeev Ratan Shah, Secretary of Ministry of Information and Technology visited Sarauhan. The secretary was visibly impressed with the performance and viabilities of application of 802.11b technology.

Director IITK visits Sarauhan

December 25, Director IIT Kanpur, Dr. S. G. Dhande along with MLA teams and other IITK professors visited Sarauhan. From Sarauhan, Dr. Dhande announced the success of project to whole world over 802.11b network.