Kerala to collaborate with Dutch organisation on tech
: The CPI (M)-led LDF
government in Kerala will join hands with The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) in the areas of innovative technologies like Internet of Things, Big data and Machine learning.
A weekly cabinet meeting here on Wednesday decided to give nod to the International Centre for Free and Open Source Software under the state IT department to sign an MoU (memorandum of understanding) with the Dutch organisation in this regard.
There is a proposal in the MoU to set up a centre of excellence of Internet of Things (IoT) here, an official statement said.
The collaboration with the Netherlands is envisaged to utilise the potential of new technologies in the areas of Smart Villages, water management, environment, livestock resources, crop protection, disaster management and so on, it added.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had visited the Netherlands in May last year on an invitation of the Dutch government to explore possibilities of ...