New Delhi, Dec 18: President Pranab Mukherjee has stressed the need to have increased ‘open’ innovation in the government to serve citizens better.
Mukherjee was speaking after being honoured with Garwood Award for ‘Outstanding Global Leader in Open Innovation’ by the UC Berkeley-Haas School of Business in California, United States of America, at Rashtrapati Bhavan here.
Open innovation is a way to future as it captures knowledge-flow from all sources, both internal and external, in an organisation. Open innovation is most essential for government entities, who are tasked to serve the citizens, he said adding “Placing of data in public domain without compromising the privacy, promotes transparency, innovation and opens up new avenues to solve problems of citizens efficiently and effectively.”
Mukherjee dedicated the award to people of the country, his staff and colleagues at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, who he said, “rendered their support” to him in improving the lot of common people of India through such initiatives.
Mukherjee, in the about three-and-a-half years of his Presidency, has initiated a number of measures to encourage innovation amongst the young and others alike and the President’s Estate also held the first-ever ‘Festival of Innovation’ early this year in this context.
