International School of Information Management

International School of Information Management (ISiM)


Management School of IT.
Technology School for IM.
 
Type Public Private Partnership (PPP) [1]
Established 15 September 2005[2]
Executive Director Prof. Shalini R. Urs
Location Mysore, Karnataka, India
Campus Manasagangotri, Mysore
Website www.isim.ac.in

The International School of Information Management (ISiM) is the first Indian i-School and is an autonomous constituent institute of the University of Mysore, located in Mysore in Karnataka State, Southern India. ISiM was conceptualised and established in 2005, in collaboration with the leading information schools in the U.S – namely the School of Information at the University of Michigan, the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, and the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University, International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Bangalore, and Dalhousie University of Canada. ISiM was established with munificent grants from the Ford Foundation and Bangalore based Informatics India Pvt. Ltd.

Introduction

ISiM campus at Manasagangothri, University of Mysore, Mysore

Each new era and society demands a new breed of professionals. Just as the industrial age heralded management sciences, the information age is engendering the domain of information sciences. With this belief and the concept of an institution focusing exclusively on information studies and research in India, ISiM was established. ISiM was conceptualized and established in 2005, by the University of Mysore, with seed grants from the Ford Foundation and Bangalore based Informatics India Pvt. Ltd., and in partnership with some of the leading information schools in the U.S, namely the School of Information at the University of Michigan, the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, and the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. To strengthen its academic linkages, ISiM signed memorandum of understanding with School of Information Studies at Syracuse University, USA, University of Michigan, USA and Dalhousie University of Canada in 2006.[3]

Dr. Som Mittal, the then Director of HP and the current President of NASSCOM, launching ISiM at InfoVision 2005
Dr. Shalini R. Urs, the Executive Director of ISiM, speaking at the launch of ISiM at InfoVision 2005

Being a new age school for the knowledge economy, ISiM also defines a new educational model – Inverse of Distance Learning[1] – in which, the students and the school are in Mysore, but, the faculty and mentors are a distributed network of excellence drawn from ISiM’s partners and other institutions.

ISiM is directed by an independent Governing Board, chaired by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Mysore, with eminent academics and industry stalwarts as members. ISiM is managed today with some of the finest minds from Academia, Industry and the Government and has on its governing board personalities like N. R. Narayana Murthy, Chairman and Mentor Infosys Technologies and others like Prof. M. Anandakrishnan, Chairman-IIT Kanpur, Dr.N. Seshagiri, Former Director General, National Informatics Centre, New Delhi, Dr. S. Sadagopan, Founder Director- IIIT, Bangalore, Mr. M. N. Vidyashankar, Principal Secretary, Department of E-Governance, Government of Karnataka, Mr. Prasad Ram, Director and Center Head, Google India, among others.[4]

With redefining the academia-industry interaction through a process of continuous engagement of students and the industry mentors in open community projects being one of the main visions of ISiM, it envisions to be an innovative institution, shaping and defining the multidisciplinary domain of information, while innovating new institutional models and focusing on preparing information professionals who can help solve the information asymmetry.

ISiM recognizes the multidisciplinary nature of information, and envisions being a ground breaking higher education institution, addressing the challenges of defining this domain. The challenges of the information age require educational institutions to continuously evolve, and ISiM has special focus towards innovating new institutional models. With emphasis on redefining the academia—industry interaction, ISiM encourages continuous engagement of students and industry mentors in Open Community Projects, and by doing so, aims to be a world class institution of higher learning, which prepares professionals who can build information systems to help solve the information asymmetry.[1]

ISiM graduates find career opportunities as Chief Information Officers (CIOs), Information System Developers, Content Managers, Management Information Analysts, Information Marketers, Knowledge Portal Managers, Knowledge Management leads, Web / Online Content Analysts, Data Analytics / Business Intelligence Specialists, Data Warehousing Professionals, MIS Officers, Archivists, Librarians etc.[5]

Partnering Institutions[3]
International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore
School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, USA
School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, USA
School of Information, University of Michigan, USA
Dalhousie University, Canada
Informatics India Limited, Bangalore

Evolution of ISiM

The seed of ISiM was sown during a discussion among like minded peers in the academia and some more members from the industry, and dozens of brainstorming sessions later during the annual Knowledge Summit "INFOVISION" in September 2005, Dr. Som Mittal, the then Director of HP and the current President of NASSCOM officially launched ISiM. From 2005, ISiM has evolved from being a mere concept to reality, and has defined a new educational model in this process - Inverse of Distance Learning.

ISiM recognizes the multidisciplinary nature of information, and envisions being a ground breaking higher education institution, addressing the challenges of defining this domain. The challenges of the information age require educational institutions to continuously evolve, and ISiM has special focus towards innovating new institutional models. With emphasis on redefining the academia—industry interaction, ISiM encourages continuous engagement of students and industry mentors in Open Community Projects, and by doing so, aims to be a world class institution of higher learning, which prepares professionals who can build information systems to help solve the information asymmetry.

ISiM's Mission:

Academics

The first batch of M.Tech began in August 2007. Currently, three batches of M.Tech students have graduated out of ISiM. The 2nd year of the fourth batch will commence from September 2011. Being a multidisciplinary course, the M.Tech degree offered by ISiM attracts students from various backgrounds, from different states within India and from around the world. The growing number of foreign students at ISiM is a testimony to its high standards of education (foreign students have grown from 0% in the first batch of M.Tech to 23% in the third batch). In its fourth batch(2012) 27% of the total students are foreign students. It show the development of ISiM year by year.

Degree programmes

Committed to prepare the information professionals of tomorrow, ISiM offers the following programmes:

Faculty

With its innovative education model, the Inverse of Distance Learning, ISiM's faculty are members of a distributed network of excellence drawn from ISiM partners and other institutions, while the students and the campus of ISiM are at Mysore. In other words, ISiM has 37 adjunct faculty drawn from its network of excellence. ISiM’s faculty include Dr. Srinivas "Srini" Sampalli, from Dalhousie University in Canada, who is one of Canada’s top educator and researcher, Dr. Kevin Crowston from Syracuse University, Prof. Nandini Vaidyanathan who is an Entrepreneur and a Business Consultant, Prof. Helen Sharp from the Open University U.K, Ms. Waltraut Ritter from Knowledge Dialogues Hong Kong, Dr. D. S. Guru from Department of Studies in Computer Science of University of Mysore, Mr. Bhanu Kiran Potta who is the Global Product Manager of Nokia, among others.

Research

Research areas of ISiM include:

Projects

ISiM has been involved in various community projects, which include:

Prasad Ram interacting with student volunteers of the WIKIGYAN project at ISiM.
Participants and Volunteers of the first edition of Internet Safari at ISiM.

ISiM Governing Board[4]

Member Affiliation
Dr. V. G. Talawar (Chairperson) Vice-Chancellor, University of Mysore
Prof. M. Anandakrishnan Chairman IIT Kanpur
Dr. N. Seshagiri Former Director General, National Informatics Centre
Mr. N. R. Narayana Murthy Chairman & Chief Mentor, Infosys Technologies
Dr. Prakash G. Apte Former Director, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Dr. S. Sadagopan Founder Director, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore
Dr. P. Anandan Managing Director, Microsoft Research Labs India Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore
Mr. N. V. Sathyanarayana Chairman & Managing Director, Informatics India Limited Bangalore
Prof. P. S. Naik Registrar, University of Mysore, Mysore
Mr. M. N VidyaShankar (IAS) Principal Secretary, Department of e-Governance, Government of Karnataka
Dr. Prasad Ram Director & Centre Head, Google India
Dr. Shalini R. Urs (Member Secretary) Executive Director, ISiM, University of Mysore

ISiM Board of Studies[6]

Member Affiliation
Dr. Shalini R. Urs (Chairperson) Executive Director, ISiM, University of Mysore
Dr. Chidananda Gowda Former Vice Chancellor and Visiting Professor, ISiM, University of Mysore
Dr. D. S. Guru Reader, Department of Studies in Computer Science, University of Mysore
Prof. T. N. Nagabhushan Special Officer, E-Learning Centre, Visvesvaraya Technological University,
SJCE Campus, Mysore
Dr. J. K. Suresh Assistant Vice President, Infosys Technologies Ltd. Education and Research,
Bangalore
Dr. N. Yathindra Director, Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology, Bangalore
Prof. Krithi Ramathirtham Dean, Department of Computer Studies and Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay
Prof. Chandrashekar Ramanathan       International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Bangalore
Dr. A. G. Ramakrishna Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering,
Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore

Campus

ISiM’s campus is located in the ‘‘Manasagangothri’’ campus of the University of Mysore at Mysore, India. ISiM began its journey by utilising the classrooms of the Department of Library and Information Science in the University of Mysore. Its new campus was inaugurated on 20 August 2008 by Mr. N. R. Narayana Murthy, Chairman and Chief Mentor of Infosys, who is also a member of ISiM’s governing body.

N. R. Narayana Murthy, Chairman and Chief Mentor of Infosys, inaugurating ISiM building.
Dignitaries at the inauguration of ISiM building.
 
N. R. Narayana Murthy, Chairman and Chief Mentor of Infosys, with staff and students of ISiM.

ISiM Events / Academic Activities

InfoVision Summit Series

In an attempt to promote Academia – Industry interaction for improvisation and innovation through collaborative effort, ISiM organizes InfoVision, an annual conference series organized with this theme. InfoVision 2006 was organized with Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), Bangalore as joint organizers, InfoVision 2007 with Rediff and Internet And Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), InfoVision 2009 with Microsoft Research and Bangalore Chamber of Industries and Commerce (BCIC)and InfoVision 2011 with TDWI Chapter India, CSI, DAMA international, IEEE Computer society, ACM and Compegence.[7]

ISiM also organized InfoQuiz 2007, prior to the commencement of its M.Tech programme.

Infovision 2006
Infovision 2007
Infovision 2009

Special Lecture Series

ISiM collaborates with other universities and organizations to organize special events, and one such venture is lecture series called "Special Lecture Series", with speakers being experts from both the academia and the industry. Listed below are such lectures, their themes/topics and speakers:[8]

CXO Lecture Series

As part of its activities, ISiM also launched a CXO lecture series in October 2009, and the inaugural lecture was delivered by Mr. M. N. Vidyashankar, Principal Secretary, Department of E-Governance, Government of Karnataka. He delivered a talk on "e-Governance in India: Challenges and Opportunities".[8]

Workshops

ISiM organizes workshops and seminars on a regular basis to address various issues pertaining to the information age, which are open for students of the institute, as well as the general public. Details of such events organized in the past are provided below.[8]

Conferences

ISiM collaborates with industry majors and universities to organize conferences. Such conferences organized in the past include:[8]

Graduation Day 2011

ISiM celebrated its Graduation Day on Monday, 11 April 2011. In her Welcome Address, Prof. Shalini Urs, Executive Director of ISiM, drew attention to the objective and tradition of celebrating graduation days. She said, a graduation day is an academic cultural tradition and is a rite of passage essentially symbolizing "Inculcation, transformation" and "Return to Society in a changed status." The purpose of ISiM Graduation Day Celebrations program is to build a sense of new roles as ISiMians and solidarity.

Dr. P. Anandan, Managing Director, Microsoft Research India, Bangalore, giving the commencement speech, outlined various kinds of aspirations that we, Indians, have seen over the ages, taking examples from Indian PURANAS and history. He said the only reason why we keep innovating, is that we don't stop aspiring. He stressed upon the fact that we should always aspire towards reaching greater heights, and work hard towards achieving them. He gave the Ten Commandments for Success that included: being brave; believe in "no boundaries’; failures as learning opportunities; not being limited by success.

Also speaking on the occasion was the chief guest for the ceremony, Shri M. N. Vidyashankar, IAS, Principal Secretary, e-Governance, IT, BT and ST, Government of Karnataka. He underscored the importance of innovation and said that is the only way for organizations to compete in the current global scenario. He also said that one of the main hurdles in the path of constant innovation was the non-acceptance of technology by members of the general public. Shri Vidyashankar highlighted with an example each for the success of using technology at their department and for the failure of an innovative education system due to the non-acceptance of technology. He also threw light on the fact that though Indians have significantly contributed to the research and innovation successes at Silicon Valley (California), they have not played such a major role in research activities in the Indus Valley (India), and advised the students to work towards a career of innovation.

Vice-Chancellor of the University of Mysore, Prof. V. G. Talawar, in his presidential address stressed on the three Ds: Desire; Determination; Dedication.

The dignitaries distributed the degree certificates to the graduates. On the occasion, two graduates, Mr. Nabhajit Ray (M.Tech Class of 2009) and Mr. Nikesh Narayanan (M.Tech Class of 2010), were awarded the "Parvathamma Subbaraya Gold Medal", instituted with munificent grants from Dr. Chudamani, an alumnus of the University of Mysore and currently, the Deputy Librarian at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Dignitaries with the Gold Medal winning graduates.
 
Shri M. N. Vidyashankar addressing the gathering.
 
Dr. P. Anandan giving his commencement address.
 

Graduation Day 2012

ISiM celebrated its Graduation Day on Sunday, 8 April 2012. In her Welcome Address, Prof. Shalini Urs, Executive Director of ISiM said " A Graduation Day Ceremony is a rite of passage, a ritual that marks the end of one phase of life and the beginning of another" emphasizing on the fact that Graduation is a kind of Liberation Marking the culmination of your academic life at the University.

Prof. Ramakrishna Ramaswamy giving commencement address at the Graduation Day celebrations of International School of Information Management (ISiM) here on Sunday said the paucity of data and its reliability is an issue of considerable importance. He called upon the students to be creators of manageable information.

Dr. H S Ranganath, director of National Assessment and Accreditation Council (Bangalore), called upon University of Mysore to give autonomous status on the lines of ISiM to other well-equipped departments. "Once the autonomy is given to deserving departments, they can prepare their own syllabus and can easily adapt to the changing system. First, facilitate and later felicitate. If this is done, innovations can be seen in education," he added.

Prof. V G Talawar Vice Chancellor of University of Mysore was also present.

34 students of M.Tech 2009-11 batch graduated from ISiM this year. The dignitaries distributed the degree certificates to the graduates. On the occasion, Mr. Raghav V S received the "Parvathamma Subbaraya" gold medal for being the top scorer of the batch.

Prof. Shalini R Urs giving the welcome address.
 
Graduate students with the dignitaries.
 
Dignitaries (L-R) Prof. Shalini R Urs, Dr.H S Ranganath,Prof. Ramakrishna Ramaswamy, Prof. V G Talawar.
 

Programmes

ISiM – is a new age school for the knowledge Society. With a mission to capitalize knowledge, driven by technology, it is committed to prepare the information professionals of tomorrow - to design, develop, implement, manage, and evaluate information systems in a wide range of environments in the global context. ISiM offers the following programmes:

Community Reach Programmes

ISiM also aims to connect with the society as part of its activities, and organizes various Development Dialogues, where discussion mainly focuses on addressing the current challenges in the world. These include:[8]

Panelists at INFOVISION 2009.
 
Participants of InfoQuiz 2007, organized by ISiM.
 
Participants at the Special Lecture by Prof. H. Raghav Rao at ISiM.

Student Life

ISiM has a diverse student population, representing many states in India, and also from foreign countries and is a blend of graduates from various science and management disciplines. The M.Tech class of 2011 has approximately 92% being graduates from various Engineering disciplines, and the remaining 8% being graduates from other science and management disciplines. The class of 2011 has 23% of its class being from foreign countries, including China and the Middle East. The class of 2012 also has 27% of foreign students from countries including middle east and Tanzania. The class of 2013 has 64% of foreign students from countries including Iran, Thailand and South Korea. Students in ISiM are given freedom. They are allowed to stay in college campus round the clock. Lab systems are connected with round the clock Internet service and Wi-Fi facilities. Students are free to play indoor games like carrom, chess, checkers etc., and some outdoor games.


ISiM Student Association (ISSA)

The ISiM Student Association (or ISSA) was founded in 2007 with the first batch of ISiM, and represents all students of ISiM. ISSA has been constituted to coordinate and manage student activities and initiatives, both academic and extracurricular. It represents all students’ interests to the ISiM administration and provides inputs to enrich the curriculum. Members of ISSA executive committee include students from both first and second year of M.Tech, with the Secretary being elected from the second year students.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Know ISiM". International School of Information Management (ISiM), University of Mysore. Retrieved 2010-08-29.
  2. ↑ "Information Boom" (PDF). Deccan Herald. 2005-09-15. Retrieved 2010-08-29.
  3. 1 2 "Partners". International School of Information Management (ISiM), University of Mysore. Retrieved 2010-08-29.
  4. 1 2 "Management". International School of Information Management (ISiM), University of Mysore. Retrieved 2010-08-29.
  5. ↑ "Placements". International School of Information Management (ISiM), University of Mysore. Retrieved 2010-08-29.
  6. ↑ "Programmes". International School of Information Management (ISiM), University of Mysore. Retrieved 2010-08-29.
  7. ↑ "InfoVision". International School of Information Management (ISiM), University of Mysore. Retrieved 2010-08-29.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 "News and Events". International School of Information Management (ISiM), University of Mysore. Retrieved 2010-08-29.

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