ARTS & HANDICRAFTS

20 Fri 10.15 AM

Hanu Reddy Residences

39/18, Binny Road

Poes Garden

Chennai 600 086

Traditional Crafts and the Modern touch

In this fast changing world   where technology rules every aspect of our lives, traditional crafts cannot afford to lag behind. How can crafts be promoted using Information Technology? How is IT providing visibility for artisans online, helping design intervention, and marketing their products?

Dr. Santhosh Babu, IAS, Principal Secretary, Information Technology Department, Government of Tamil Nadu, and former Chairman and Managing Director of the Tamil Nadu Handicrafts Development  Corporation(Poompuhar), has done path-breaking work in this field. He will tell us how IT has brought about a transformation in the crafts sector in the State. Santhosh Babu is a medical doctor who belongs to the 1995 batch of

the Indian Administrative Service. His passion is to raise standards of

governance to the highest levels using modern management practices and the tools that IT provides. He has 150 plus transformational initiatives to his credit. He is a Chevening Gurukul Scholar from the London School of Economics and is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards. In 2017, Poompuhar won the National E-Governance award under his leadership.