How Can We Matter

It is truly gratifying to note that one of the strategic objectives outlined in the Strategic Plan   Enhancing Bhārat's Positivity, And the World's: A Strategic Plan  of August 01, 2022 is coming to fruition. 'Bharat, not India': Calls for renaming in Parliament’s special session I hope that the official writing of the name  Bhārat  will include the diacritical mark (a straight bar ¯ placed above the letter a) to indicate that it is a long vowel. I also wish that the Government will also utilize this opportunity to change the call sign  VT  on all civilian aircraft registered in India, as indicated below.  The Strategic Objective 5 in the  Strategic Plan  was elaborated in the following words. Strategy 5: Restore the culture of  Bhārat and the legendary name of the nation. The preservation and development of our  cultural heritage  should be an ongoing process as not much concerted efforts have been attempted at restoring...

Prelude Writing this post brought back fond memories of my professional career as a Senior Consultant with the Abu Dhabi Systems & Information Centre (ADSIC) , now defunct and probably functioning under the new name Abu Dhabi Digital Authority .  It was during those six years (2008-2014) that I had the opportunity to get acquainted with the Strategic Plans of several Abu Dhabi Government Departments and also create a couple of Strategic Plans for whole-of-Government initiatives such as  Abu Dhabi Spatial Data Infrastructure (AD-SDI) Program   and  Abu Dhabi No Objection Certificate (NOC) Program . The work on Geospatial Data Contend Standards  made me familiar with the works of International Standards bodies OGC and ISO.  Reminiscing on the good old days in UAE, I would like to recall with gratitude my associations with colleagues at  GISTEC ,  ADSIC and the GPC Group .   Image Credit: UN HR Portal Edits since publishing on...