Beginning May 2022,the High Commission of India in Guyana will once again be accepting applications for on-site training in India, under the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) programme, after a stoppage due to Covid-19 pandemic according to release yesterday from the High Commission. The stoppage was due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the attendant protocols.
On Thursday, May 12, the first batch of five officers from Guyana Police Force under ITEC 2022 departed for the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) for a 4-week specialised training course from 16 May 2022 to 10 June 2022, in Cyber Security & Malware Analytics, and Reverse Engineering to improve the capabilities of Guyana Police Force to fight cybercrime. The team comprises of 5 Guyana Police Force Officers and marks the beginning of training of Guyana Police Force Officers in India under ITEC.
ITEC is the Government of India’s flagship programme instituted on 15 September 1964. It aims to share India’s own development experiences with fellow developing countries “on the basis of partnership, and cooperation for mutual benefit.” It added that so far, more than 200,000 alumni across the world including over 650 Guyanese have undergone training under this Programme. ITEC is for enhancing skills and capacity building for Guyanese and for deputation of ITEC experts and technical assistance in various sectors.
Established in 1988, the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is a premier research and development (R&D) organisation of the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Ministry of Communications & Information Technology (MCIT), in India, that carries out R&D in IT, Electronics, and associated areas.
C-DAC is regarded as a premier third-party R&D organisation in IT&E (Information Technologies and Electronics) in the country, working to strengthen national technological capabilities in the context of global developments in the field and responding to changes in the market need in selected foundation areas.
The release added that as an institution for high-end R&D, C-DAC has been at the forefront of the Information Technology (IT) revolution, and was also instrumental in establishing the Center for Excellence in IT for Government of Guyana located at the University of Guyana premises at a cost of about US$2 million to train Guyanese nationals.
The release said that over 4,650 Guyanese are currently studying at Indian universities under the Guyana Government’s GOAL scholarship scheme.
