1. For Our World Infrastructure: Housing, Transportation, Communication Disaster Management: Natural and Manmade Name: Dilip Krishnaswamy Designation: Sr. Researcher Organization: IBM Research Labs Email: dilikris AT in.ibm.com

2. Challenges & Sustainable Solutions Electricity – Many of India’s villages have good solar coverage - solar power is environmental friendly as well Need to aggressively launch solar-based power generation in our villages At key locations such as the village center or the schools, and extend to individual homes Implement microgrids where possible Backup power could be tapped from local solar instead of from the electricity grid DC appliances could be designed to avoid loss of DC-to-AC and AC-to-DC conversions Services to manage generation and utilization of electricity from renewable sources in general would be useful

3. Challenges & Sustainable Solutions Electricity (Contd) Storage of generated electricity is an issue Two-way grids could be used to avoid need for local storage Amrita’s Nanotech infused solar panels with integrated storage is interesting www.selco-india.com is doing good work to enable solar (financing / technology) Water – providing water to everyone Services to monitor water-levels and managing and regulating water supply can help Transportation – Need to increase the availability of public transport, and use of alternate transportation means (such as EVs) without using diesel or petrol

4. Buddhi-Edge - Taking Education to the edge - Distributed virtual machines exchanging edu content

6. Edge Services for Disaster Mgmt (Sankat Edge) – Reuse Existing Infrastructure (such as for education) - Combine Education and Disaster mgmt functions - Dynamic deployment of edge services as needed

7. Adhoc communications support for disaster mgmt -Use adhoc deployed LTE ENodeBs/Relays or adhoc WiFi to extend coverage -Solar powered base-stations for local coverage

8. Some relevant efforts at IBM Smarter Planets / Smarter Energy http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/in/en/ http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/in/en/smart_grid/ideas/ Cognitive Computing http://www.research.ibm.com/cognitive-computing/index.shtml “Cognitive computing systems learn and interact naturally with people to extend what either man or machine could do on their own. “ Watson and healthcare – could be applied to provide cognitive healthcare information services for disaster mgmt http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/watson_in_healthcare.shtml

9. A parting comment We are asking – what we can offer to our villages? We should also ask – what can we learn from our villages? Not all aspects of urban advancement is beneficial to humanity at large We need to ask what do people really need and then make a difference there Both villages and cities can learn from each other and make our world a better place to live in.