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US, India to identify new areas of scientific cooperation during meeting in Washington | | The United States and India will assess progress and
identify new areas for scientific cooperation during the second U.S.-India Joint Commission Meeting on Science and Technology Cooperation being held here this
week. Representatives from more than 15 U.S. Government agencies and research
institutions will meet with their Indian counterparts to discuss basic and applied
sciences, health and medical sciences, and atmospheric, environment and earth
sciences; policy initiatives to strengthen bilateral research cooperation. Dr.
John P. Holdren, Assistant to the ( U.S. ) President for Science and Technology
and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and India
's Science and Technology Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh will lead their respective
delegations at the talks to be held on Monday. The meeting, held under the auspices
of the U.S.-India Science and Technology Agreement. Other issues likely to be
discussed include - innovation and technology commercialization; science, technology,
engineering, and ath (STEM) education; and best practices for retaining and advancing
women in science. During the meeting, Dr. Holdren and the Indian Prime Minister's
Advisor for Public Information Infrastructure and Innovation Dr. Sam Pitroda will
announce the Open Government Platform (OGPL) — a bilateral effort to promote transparency
and greater citizen engagement by making government data, documents, tools and
processes publicly available. Making this information available on an open-source
platform in machine-readable format will allow developers, analysts, the media,
and academics an opportunity to develop new applications and insights, which will
ultimately give citizens more information to facilitate better decisions.
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