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Dr. T.H. Chowdary
holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Telecommunications. He held executive,
managerial and directorial positions (General
Manager, Deputy Director General)
in the Departments of (a) Information
and Broad-casting and (b) Telecommunications,
of the Government of India. He was the founding
Chairman and Managing Director of India’s Overseas Communications
Corporation [VSNL]. He was Governor, INTELSAT, (Washington) and Executive
Director, INMARSAT (London). He was Senior Expert of the International
Telecommunications Union [ITU] in Guyana
and Yemen and was engaged
by the CIDA (Canada) for
writing the Green Paper for restructuring of Telecoms in South Africa and for drafting Information and
Communications Policy in Nepal. He was Member
of India’s National
Task Force on Information Technology and Software. In these several capacities he travelled 75 times
to over 50 countries including the former USSR
and China.
He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Institution
of electronic & Telecom Engineers (India) and its past President.
Dr. Chowdary
is the founding Director of the Center for Telecom Management and Studies
[India] an I.C.T think- tank and intellectual
campaigner for liberalization of India’s telecommunications and
for extensive deployment of information and communication technologies in
Government and mass use for
informatisation of society. He is Chairman
of Pragna Bharathi [Intellect
India], a think -tank and
a platform for deliberations on socio-political, economic, educational and
developmental issues confronting India.
Dr. Chowdary is
the author of several books on
telecommunications, information technology, Indian culture and politics and
Editor /Member, Board of Editors of several journals (national and international) on
telecommunications, information technology and socio-political affairs. (eg: INFO; Telecommunications
Policy, both from the UK)
. He has been editing and publishing
the monthly Journal of the Center for Telecom Management and Studies since
1992.
Since
1997, Dr. Chowdary is Information Technology Advisor in
the rank of Minister of State to the Government of
Andhra Pradesh [India],
mentoring the State’s extensive programmes for
e-Governance, Government to Citizen [G2C] services (e-Seva)
on the Internet, computer education in schools and colleges and broadband
applications.
Dr.
Chowdary is also
a Fellow of Tata
Consutlancy Services and Satyam Computer Services ( the number 1 and 5
I.T companies of India)
and Director of a number of Telecom & I.T Companies
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