To formulate the 11th 5-year plan on ICT, the Government of India had constituted a working group drawn from a cross section of the ICT community and five specialized, subject specific study teams under the chairmanship of the Secretary, Department of Information Technology to make recommendations on various policy matters.
Consequently, as per recommendations made by the working group, the following broad thrust areas have been identified under Government of India's 11th five year plan (2007-2012):
National Security and Safety that would include disaster recovery and response.
Social Sector which will include Indian Language Computing, Internet and Broadband Technologies, various technologies for physically challenged persons, initiatives like Media Lab Asia, ICT for Education, Healthcare, Enhancing Livelihoods, etc.
Strategic, which will include Semiconductors since it is the base of success for so many other industries.
Cutting edge and emerging areas in both IT and Electronics.
Indicative list of thrust areas for R&D in the XIth Plan, categorized broadly under Emerging technologies, Social, Strategic and Security sectors is as follows:
Emerging Technology Areas a. Information Technology
Ubiquitous Computing
RFID
High performance Computing
Grid Computing
High Performance Networking
Bioinformatics
Open Source Software
Software Engineering
Web Technologies
b. Electronics
Nanotechnology
Photonics
Microelectronics
Industrial Electronics and Automation technologies Embedded Systems
Electronics Material Development Program
Services and Social Sector
Media Lab Asia – ICT for Education, Healthcare, Enhancing Livelihoods, Empowerment of the Disabled, etc.
Language Computing and speech
Medical Electronics and Telemedicine
Strategic
Applied Microwave Electronics Engineering and Research
Convergence, Communications, Broad band Technologies and Strategic Electronics
Components and Instrumentation for defense and metrology
