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The article was published in the "ICT Policy 2011: November 2011" issue of eGov Magazine
thanks to CSDMS, EU-IndiaGrid2 Media Partners

In this Issue:

• Different user communities are involved in EU-IndiaGrid2. Discover what's new  in EU-IndiaGrid2 website about Material Science, High Energy Physics, Climate change and Biology User communities
• Access ther grid: 2 guides are now available for new EU-IndiaGrid users
• Have you lost the EU-IndiaGrid2-CHAIN Workshop at the APAN32 Meeting in Delhi, last August? You can find the presentations, the video-interviews with the speakers and the live webcasts in the EU-IndiaGrid2 website

INTERVIEW

P.S. Dhekne is A renowned expert, nationally as well as internationally, and officer of the Principal Scientific Adviser to Indian Government. During the EU-IndiaGrid2 Workshop on Research Applications of High Speed Connectivity Across Europe, India and the Asia-Pacific Area, 24TH August 2011, he provided an overview of latest status of NKN, its current applications, various Grid initiatives in India and it’s migration to NKN, describing few collaborative applications deployed using NKN through GEANT & TEIN3.

PRESS RELEASE

In Autumn 2010 a group of researchers of the Homi Bhabha National Institute carried out an experiment for protein crystallography in Grenoble, France directly from their laboratories in Mumbai, operating robots in a French laboratory almost 10.000 km away from their lab in Mumbai. On 24 August at the APAN32 2011 conference, New Delhi, a “CHAIN - EU-IndiaGrid2 Workshop will showcase this and a number of  other experiments carried out under the umbrella of the EU-IndiaGrid2 EC funded project.