The Trust Lab will be set up at IIT Bombay’s Department of Computer Science & Engineering. It si expected to drive several activities related to research, education, development, outreach, and entrepreneurship by leveraging IIT Bombay’s expertise in the domains of security, privacy, and, more broadly, digital trust.
While talking about the ‘IIT Bombay Trust Lab’, Prof. Subhasis Chaudhuri, Director, IIT Bombay said, “With digital experiences rapidly becoming an integral part of our lives, security, privacy, population-scale access and usability, citizen empowerment, etc. become fundamental enablers for a safe and prosperous society and nation. The establishment of the ‘IIT Bombay Trust Lab’ will allow the Institute to take the lead in the digital trust domain and support nation-building significantly. We are deeply grateful to Dr. Shukla for his generosity that has enabled the Institute to take a huge step forward in this direction and accelerate its mission of playing a key role in solving national and global challenges”.
IIT Bombay Trust Lab: Highlights
- It will focus on ‘trust’ issues in our digital environment including security, privacy, accountability and the trustworthiness of the environment as a whole.
- It will excel in the field of digital trust through multifarious activities like attracting and nurturing world-class researchers to build a globally competitive research program
The Trust Lab is also expected to create a deep societal impact in the area of digital trust, through collaborations with industry and government agencies in the form of joint research projects, expert consulting, providing policy inputs, developing and curating resources like state-of-theart free and open-source software (FOSS), incubating start-ups, and more
Source: https://www.timesnownews.com/education/iit-bombay-launches-trust-lab-to-foster-a-digital-trust-ecosystem-through-educational-activities-article-94230746
