Centre for Development of Telematics: Difference between revisions

| minister1_name = [[Ashwini Vaishnaw]]

| minister2_name = [[Devusinh Chauhan]]

| minister2_pfo = [[Minister of State for Communications (India)]]

| chief2_position =Director

| chief3_name = Shikha Srivastava

| chief3_position = Director

| agency_type = R & D Centre in Telecom<ref>[http://www.cdot.in/about_us/berif_history.htm Brief History]</ref>

}}The '''Centre for Development of Telematics''' (C-DOT) is an [[Indian Government]] owned [[telecommunications]] technology development centre. It was established in 1984 with initial mandate of designing and developing [[Business telephone system|digital exchanges]]. C-DOT has expanded to develop intelligent [[computer software]] applications. It has offices in [[Delhi]], [[Bangalore]] and [[Kolkata]]. It is one of the few government organisations in India which have been appraised at Maturity Level 5 of CMMI-DEV v1.3.

Presently CDOT is implementing Common Alert Protocol for India by developing Location based Integrated Disaster Early Warning System for National Disaster Management Authority. In this project, Forecasting agencies like IMD, CWC, INCOIS, GSI, SASE and national to state level disaster management authorities in a common platform for dissemination of early warnings for cyclone, flood, thunderstorms, sandstorm, tsunami, landslides and Avalanche to public over multiple media like mobile, internet, TV, radio, social media etc. With completion of the project, it will not only save precious human lives but also take make the country disaster resilient.

Presently C-DOT is implementing Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) in India to send out early warnings to the public through mobiles. CAP enables dissemination of messages to the target population without the intervention of service providers. The State of Kerala has used the platform effectively to send out as many as 11.4 lakhs precautionary messages during the Floods. Kerala used it again when Cyclone Gaja crossed over Kerala.

In 2014, the non-profit group [[Reporters without Borders]] published their annual report on countries which are "Enemies of the Internet and/or under surveillance", in which India was labelled as a country with widespread ongoing governmental surveillance of its citizens with little oversight. C-DOT was among the international agencies listed with a mandate of surveillance of Indian citizens and other network traffic within India.C-DOT is working on the project called [[Central Monitoring System|CMS]], which is similar to the [[PRISM (surveillance program)|PRISM]] project of the [[National Security Agency|NSA]].<ref name="Enemies of the Internet 2014: entities at the heart of censorship and surveillance">[http://12mars.rsf.org/2014-en/enemies-of-the-internet-2014-entities-at-the-heart-of-censorship-and-surveillance/ Enemies of the Internet 2014: entities at the heart of censorship and surveillance] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140318171122/http://12mars.rsf.org/2014-en/enemies-of-the-internet-2014-entities-at-the-heart-of-censorship-and-surveillance/ |date=2014-03-18 }}, Accessed 17 March 2014.</ref><ref name="Forget NSA, India's Centre for Development of Telematics is one of top 3 worst online spies">{{cite news | url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/indias-centre-for-development-of-telematics-worst-online-spies-reporters-without-borders-184570-2014-03-12 | title=Forget NSA, India's Centre for Development of Telematics is one of top 3 worst online spies | publisher=India Today | agency=PTI | date=12 March 2014 | accessdate=4 December 2022 }}</ref>

*[https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/thunderstorm-cyclone-alerts-to-your-phone/cid/1344630 Thunderstorm and Cyclone alert to your phone]