Commitment: IIT-Kanpur and IIM-Ahmedabad

The two academic institutions' main contribution will be in terms of bringing intellectual capital to private provisioning of infrastructure services. They will contribute to the joint activities of the network, namely, preparation of the Indian Infrastructure Development Report, conducting technical programmes and management of conferences and workshops. At their institute level, they will conduct training workshops and facilitate development of infrastructure related courses in their own and in other academic institutions. Each institution has shown considerable interest in the idea of the Networking and is willing to commit staff time, computation, and administrative support to its activities. More importantly, about a dozen professors from each institution are actively participating in the enterprise as their research interests interface with the objectives of the Network.