CSRE 2015 - Workshop on Creating Sustainable Rural Employment through Industrial Process Outsourcing

A half-day Workshop entitled "Creating Sustainable Rural Employment through Industrial Process Outsourcing" is being jointly organized by IIIT Allahabad (IIIT-A), India and University of Strathclyde (UoS), Scotland, UK as part of the IEEE Intl. Conf. on Technological Innovations for Agriculture and Rural Development (IEEE TIAR 2015) during July 10-12, 2015 as per following schedule:
Workshop date: July 11th, 2015 (9:00 AM to 2:00 PM)
Venue: Easwari Engineering College, Ramapuram, Chennai
Early Bird Registration Deadline: June, 15th, 2015.
The Workshop is related to the BURD ((Bridging the Urban and Rural Divide) Project supported by the Department of Science & Technology (DST), India and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK, currently running at IIIT-A, India and UoS, UK.
This special workshop session will focus on the technologies, business and opportunities associated with micro-outsourcing of Industrial work to IT Centres and/ or individual workers in rural locations. This workshop will explore both the emerging infrastructure (e.g. Rural IT, BPO centres and Crowdsourcing platforms) and research into novel forms of industrial work (e.g. CAD/CAM optimization) that exploit human computational abilities to understand the skills and motivations of the people who form this new online labour force. Speakers from business and academia will share their work and experiences of this emerging area both in India and elsewhere.
More information about the Workshop may be obtained by clicking the BURD Workshop button on the IEEE TIAR2015 conference home page (http://www.ieeetiar.com/) or can be directly reached by following URL:https://burd.iiita.ac.in/workshop2015/index.php
Request: Kindly forward this email to your colleagues and/or display the print of the attached workshop pamphlet (A4 page) on the notice board of your department/ organization for those who may be interested to register.
Organizers:
Prof Jonathan Corney, UoS, Scotland, UK
(Homepage: http://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/corneyjonathanprof/)
Prof Anupam Agrawal, IIIT Allahabad, India
(Homepage: http://profile.iiita.ac.in/anupam)