An Overview
RTBI has emerged from IIT’s informal incubator - The TeNet Group - known to be at theforefront of innovations in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for the developing world for the past twenty years (www.tenet.res.in). The TeNeT Group comprises of faculty members from the Department of Electrical Engineering, and the Department of Computer Science at IIT Madras, who have conceived RTBI as a way to focus on the developmental needs of rural India.
RTBI is located at IITM’s Research Park adjacent to the campus http://respark.iitm.ac.in/. The Incubator provides its Startups and future ventures with easy access to labs, conference rooms, and administrative facilities for ease of function as well as provide a convivial and professional atmosphere for business development. It also offers a whole range of services to its clients:
• Infrastructure facilities
• Technology and Prototype development support
• Mentoring - both technology and business
• Seed Funding and other financial support
• Human Resources Support
• Initial rural linkages
• Rural data and research for pilot
• Linkages with public and private funding bodies
• Networking opportunities for business development
• Administrative, legal and financial advice, patenting services
• Early identity and brand creation
RTBI has emerged from IIT’s informal incubator - The TeNet Group - known to be at theforefront of innovations in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for the developing world for the past twenty years (www.tenet.res.in). The TeNeT Group comprises of faculty members from the Department of Electrical Engineering, and the Department of Computer Science at IIT Madras, who have conceived RTBI as a way to focus on the developmental needs of rural India.
RTBI is located at IITM’s Research Park adjacent to the campus http://respark.iitm.ac.in/. The Incubator provides its Startups and future ventures with easy access to labs, conference rooms, and administrative facilities for ease of function as well as provide a convivial and professional atmosphere for business development. It also offers a whole range of services to its clients:
• Infrastructure facilities
• Technology and Prototype development support
• Mentoring - both technology and business
• Seed Funding and other financial support
• Human Resources Support
• Initial rural linkages
• Rural data and research for pilot
• Linkages with public and private funding bodies
• Networking opportunities for business development
• Administrative, legal and financial advice, patenting services
• Early identity and brand creation