It is my great pleasure to welcome PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, India
http://www.pec.ac.in/ as our new OSGeo lab. PEC University of Technology, formerly known as Punjab Engineering College, is an engineering institute located in the city of Chandigarh, India.
Founded in 1921, it is one of the oldest educational institutes in India. I also really like the motto of PEC (Tamaso Ma Jyotirgamaya) which in Sanskrit the meaning of which is "From darkness (of ignorance) lead us to Light (of Knowledge)"
Manoj has visited Nottingham University twice in recent time (though i couldnt meet him!) (June and Sept 2014 for a day each) as part of delegation from Chandigarh Region Innovation and Knowledge Cluster (CRIKC)
http://crikc.puchd.ac.in . CRIKC is a cluster of 15 odd academic institutions and research institutions in Chandigarh with Vice Chancellor, Panjab University, as the Chairman.
CRIKC has signed MoU with University of Nottingham to have academic collaboration in many different ways. I can see many research synergies in open geospatial esp. in Opencitysmart research that we will be able to able to explore in the future.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalpana_Chawla
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