By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Guwahati: An entrepreneur from Nagaland who made it big in the national scene is back in the region with a mission to launch the IT revolution in the remotest and challenging areas of northeast India.
On a sabbatical break after 14 years of working in the industry, Mr Lanu Ignatius is back to northeast India saying, “I see my mission to bring educational ITC to grass root level in the remotest areas of northeast India.”
Mr Ignatius addressed the 3rd and 7th semester B.Tech students of Assam Don Bosco University residing at Carrenno Hall Hostel at Azara campus with an hour long session on “Emerging Technologies: how to own the corporate world.”
Director of two Mumbai based companies Forticore Systems and Energeo, Mr Ignatius spoke to some 60 students sharing his experiences in the industry and job market.
Coming from a Civil Engineering background, Mr Ignatius is now into geophysics working to discover subsurface oil and gas, and assess its volume and quantity.
An alumnus of Don Bosco Tuli (in Mokochung dist Nagaland) Mr Ignatius graduated from Regional Engineering College, (now NIT Surat) in Gujarat.
Currently Mr Ignatius advisor to Ministry of IT for MAIT (Manufacturers Association for Information Technology), is implementing pilot projects in four Don Bosco Institutions at Maram and Tamenglong in Manipur, Tuli in Nagaland, and Jorhat, Assam.
By the end of the year Mr Ignatius hopes to start implementing 15 projects in most challenging and remotest places in northeast India, in collaboration with colleagues from the industry.
Co-founder of Bharat Lynux, Mr. Ignatius encouraged students to be entrepreneurs and “to foresee and predict what technology is coming in the immediate future (by the time they get out of College) and address it and carve a corporate niche.”
In a note of realistic warning Mr Ignatius told his eager listeners who fielded questions on career in entrepreneurship and incubation, the words of Mahatma Gandhi who said “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
Mr Ignatius also pledged, ‘to help out, in IT penetration in northeast India as his contribution to stem the tide of brain drain from northeast.