Well-known IT professional, entrepreneur and FOSS advocate, Satish Babu, took over as the President of the Computer Society of India (CSI), at a function held in the Mumbai Headquarters of CSI. Satish had been previously elected the Vice President and President-elect.

Dr. SV Raghavan, Scientific Secretary at the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India, joined the incoming team as the Vice President and President-elect of CSI at the same function.

After taking over as the President Babu said, “As an eminent institution in a strategically important sector, CSI needs to further support nation-building through leveraging its strengths in areas such as technical education, capacity enhancement, and social and development areas such as computing for the disabled and disaster management.” He further said, “CSI would also like to create new initiatives in the areas of contemporary interest to India such as Green Computing, e-Waste Management and climate change adaptations. At the organizational level, my priorities would be to enhance services to all stakeholders, to strengthen Chapters, Divisions, Regions and Special Interest Groups of CSI, and to create a single-point Open Access repository of all content generated through CSI conferences and seminars so as to be useful to all information consumers.”

Satish Babu will also be one of the representatives of India in the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP), the apex organization of national societies in IT. Established by the auspices of UNESCO in 1960, IFIP has over 50 national societies and academies of science as members.