pune minister of state for communications and information technology it sachin pilot has said that the centre for development of advanced computing cdac needs to move two steps forward to ensure that the itbased products developed by it are commercially scalable in open market the centre ought to showcase and market these products beyond the existing use by government offices he said at the 25th foundation day of cdac a premier organisation of the department of electronics and it deit for carrying out research and development in it electronics and allied areas pilot traced cdacs progress since the late 1980s when it was established in the wake of the united states decision to deny technology to india in certain key areas out of fear of its use for nuclear applications the hunger for knowledge and for making breakthroughs still exists in the organisation as it was during the days of its inception he said however the need is to refocus on areas that can lead to creation of demanddriven market he added pilot said the electronics services delivery bill which is pending in the parliament will bring in a major change in terms of securing access to information for people especially those in rural areas at the click of the mouse the bill provides among other things for a certain portion of the government services like land records and tehsil office works to be delivered through online mode this will bring greater transparency and reduce human interface in government offices he said in his foundation day lecture delivered through videoconferencing mode sam pitroda adviser to the prime minister on public information infrastructure and innovations said we need to refocus on development of indigenous technologies by creating an institutional infrastructure and eco system he said as of now indigenous development is difficult in india as it requires a lot of political will and a systematic bypass to the existing systems which are not in tune with new ideas and new initiatives also at times there is no user commitment pitroda said the second phase of telecom revolution which is to unfold soon is all about democratisation of information while phasei focussed on rural and mobile telephony to connect everyone through voice communication the phaseii will focus on broadband optical fibres applications local content and local languages among others he stressed the need to set up national innovation councils comprising of highly skilled domain experts in 10 areas ie high speed computing cyber security distributed networks optical devices wireless communication low power mobile and smart phones local applications local languages voice recognition and translation cloud computing sensors and other devices and solar these are the areas which will drive the electronics industry in the country devang khakhar director of iit bombay said in his presidential address that india needs to build up high performance computing hpc facilities on a bigger scale considering that the country has fallen way behind us and china in this area education opportunities in hpc are lacking and