The Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) has announced that it has chosen Live Documents, the online office suite developed by Sabeer Bhatia-founded InstaColl for its 187 engineering colleges and more than 2 lakh students.
VTU Vice Chancellor, Dr. Maheshappa signed an agreement today to this effect with Sabeer Bhatia at an event, which was attended by Government of Karnataka Principal Secretary-Governance Department, Mr. M.N. Vidyashankar & C.E.O. Center for e-Governance Dr. D.S. Ravindran.
Speaking at the event, Dr. Maheshappa said, “VTU always looks forward to creating a culture of innovation in engineering education and research. We are looking forward to working with Internet pioneer and globally acknowledged technology innovator, Sabeer Bhatia to roll out the next-generation office productivity suite that his company has developed within our colleges. I am confident that our students will benefit immensely from using this solution”.
Sabeer Bhatia remarked, “Live Documents will do for documents what Hotmail did for email – free it up from confines of the desktop and open up new vistas of collaboration and accessibility. Live Documents is a “Made-in-India” software product that was conceived and developed right here in Bangalore and it gives me great pleasure to see progressive institutions like VTU adopt it and support the case for developing more world-class products in India.”
