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The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
(C-DAC) under the aegis of Department of
Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY)
and Union ministry of communications and
information technology, the Election Commission
of India (ECI) has organised a two day national
conference on remote voting (R-Voting) on July
20 and 21, said a statement issued by C-DAC.
The aim of this two-day conference is to bring
the researchers, academics, industry, government
institutions and more specially the Election
Commission of India on a single platform for
knowledge aggregation, sharing, discussing the
various challenges and possible solutions for
making remote voting a reality.
The conference also aims to leverage on the
experiences gained by other countries while
implementing the remote voting or electronic
voting.
The conference focus on cryptographic voting
systems, end to end verifiable voting systems,
voter identification, authorization, vote and
voter privacy, software and hardware systems
reliability, scalability, deployment lifecycle,
usability and accessibility, analytics, legal,
political and administration challenges among
others. |
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Venue: IITM, Meghdoot, Pune
Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology Dr.
Homi Bhabha Road, Pashan,
Pune 411008, INDIA,
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DAY 1: 20th July 2015, Time:
09:00 to 18:0 hrs
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Registration 09:00 - 09.30
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SESSION I: 09:30 to 11:30
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Welcome and Objectives of conference
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5 minutes |
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“Warming up – Identifying key
challenges”
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Chair: Shri. Umesh Sinha, Deputy
Election Commissioner, ECI
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15 minutes |
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Co-Chair: Prof. Rajat Moona,
Director General, CDAC
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20 minutes |
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Prof. D. T. Shahani, Instrument
Design Development Centre , IIT-Delhi
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20 minutes |
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Interactive session - Idea
germination, identifying challenges,
Q&A
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30 minutes |
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Tea break
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11:00 - 11:30 |
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SESSION II: 11:30 – 13:30
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Session Chair: Prof. D. T. Shahani,
Instrument Design Development Centre
, IIT-Delhi
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Prof. Poorvi Vora, Dept. of Computer
Science, The George Washington
University, USA
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40 minutes |
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Prof. Veni Madhavan, Dept. of
Computer Science and Automation
Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore
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35 minutes |
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Mr. Craig Burton, Founder
EveryoneCounts.com and e-Voting
Consultant to Australia, UK for E2E
Verifiable voting system
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40 minutes |
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Summing up
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05 minutes |
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LUNCH
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13:30 - 14:30 |
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Inauguration Session 14:30-16:00
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Welcome & Offering of bouquets to
dignitaries on the Dias
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Dr. Hemant
Darbari, Executive Director, CDAC, Pune |
5 minutes |
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Welcome address by
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Prof.
Rajat Moona, Director General CDAC |
15 minutes |
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Address by
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Mr. Vinod Zutshi, Deputy Election
Commissioner |
30 minutes |
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Address by
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Shri. R.
S. Sharma, Secretary, DeitY |
30 minutes |
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Address by
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Shri.
Achal Kumar Joti, Election Commissioner |
20 minutes |
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Keynote address
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Dr. Nasim Zaidi, Chief Election
Commissioner |
30 minutes |
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Vote of thanks
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Mr. Umesh
Sinha, Deputy Election Commissioner, ECI |
5 minutes |
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Tea Break
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16:00 - 16:15 |
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SESSION III: 16:30-19:00
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Session Chair: Prof. Rajat Moona,
Director General, CDAC
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Mr. Jordi Puiggali- Senior Vice
President( Research & Security),
Scytl, Barcelona (Spain)
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40 minutes |
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Dr. Varesh Sinha, State Election
Commissioner, Gujarat
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30 minutes |
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Open Forum (Q&A and discussions)
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5 minutes |
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Summing up
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05 minutes |
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DAY 2: 21st July 2015, Time: 09:30
to 17:30 hrs
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Session IV 9:30 – 10:40
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Session Chair : Dr. Hemant Darbari
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Shri. Pavan Duggal, Cyber law
specialist , Pavan Duggal
Associates, Delhi
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30 minutes |
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Ms. Neeta Verma, Deputy Director
General, NIC, Delhi
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35 minutes |
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Summing up
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05 minutes |
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Tea break
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10:40 – 11:00 |
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SESSION V: 11:00 - 13:00
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Session Chair : Dr. P. K. Sinha
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Shri. Pramod Verma, Chief Architect,
UIDAI
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45 minutes |
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Shri. Abhishek Bansal, Principle
Consultant, Data Security Council of
India
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35 minutes |
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Mr. Minoo Thind, Service Line
Director, Asia Pacific, Akamai
Technologies, Inc, Singapore
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35 minutes |
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Summing up
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05 minutes |
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LUNCH
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13:00 - 14:00 |
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SESSION VI 14:00- 16:10
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Session Chair: Shri. V. N. Shukla,
Director IT, Election Commission of
India
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Dr. Sarat Chandar Babu, Executive
Director, CDAC / Shri. Hari Babu,
CDAC, Bangalore
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25 minutes |
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Shri. Dinesh Kamble, Sr. Solutions
Architect, Intel
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25 minutes |
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Shri. Anil Kumar, Principal
Secretary, Industrial Training,
Haryana
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25 minutes |
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Shri. Wrigh Sharma, Manager, UIDAI /
Shri. Aditya Pal, Product Manager,
UIDAI
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25 minutes |
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Mr. S. Sivaraman, District
Information Officer, North Goa
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15 minutes |
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Mr Cheriyan Mathew, Practice Head
IDC-BSNL- IDC Dimension Data
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25 minutes |
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Summing up
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05 minutes |
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Tea Break
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16:10 – 16:30 |
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SESSION VII: 16:30 – 18:00
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Panel discussion: Chair Prof. Rajat
Moona
Mr. Craig Burton, Founder
EveryoneCounts.com and e-Voting
Consultant to Australia, UK
Mr. Jordi Puiggali, Senior Vice
President( Research & Security),
Scytl, Barcelona (Spain)
Prof. Poorvi Vora, Dept. of Computer
Science, The George Washington
University, USA
Mr. Vivek Sharma, Head IDC & Cloud
Business, Dimension Data, Bangalore
Mr. V. N. Shukla, Director IT,
Election Commission of India
Dr. Hemant Darbari, Executive
Director, CDAC, Pune
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16:30 – 18:00 |
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Summing up and Vote of Thanks
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17:45 -18:00 |
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