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UK on Wednesday announced 10 million pounds funding for a joint research project with Indian institutes to boost India's internet capabilities with rural access to broadband and health monitoring systems among others.
The project aims to develop solutions that can scale to benefit the lives of millions of users as well as the digital economy in both countries.
The funding? considered one of the largest for any project between the two countries ?" was announced by Universities and Science Minister David Willetts during a meeting with Science and Technology Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh here today.
The 10 million pounds investment will support the second phase of research into next generation telecommunications networks? the development of state-of-the-art platforms and applications that will carry voice, video and data in the future on the Internet.
The project involves the employment of 200 scientists.
The research is a key part of the work of the India-UK Advanced Technology Centre (IU-ATC), a collaborative programme funded by the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), India's Department of Science and Technology (DST) and industrial partners in both countries.
The funding will allow the Centre to focus its efforts to develop low-cost solutions for rural access to broadband, improved use of available spectrum as well as applications for rural health monitoring, emergency and disaster communications, social TV-Virtual Classrooms and other services.
The ultimate aim of the IU-ATC is to develop solutions that can scale to benefit the lives of millions of users as well as the Digital Economy in both the UK and India, the Foreign Office said.
