Thiruvananthapuam: Kerala government on last day said it plans to develop the Technocity near here, the IT hub scheduled to be launched by President Ram Nath Kovind on October 27, as the country's biggest futuristic IT park.
The 400 acre IT hub, located at nearby Pallippuram, would focus on futuristic technologies such as cognitive analytics, fintech, space applications, cyber security, e-mobility and so on, state IT secretary M Sivasankar said.
The President would lay the foundation stone for the first government IT building at Technocity on the day. The official said the 'Knowledge City' concept planned at Technocity is the big step envisioned towards bringing a paradigm shift in the socio-economic thought process of the southern state.
"Technocity is not just planned as another IT park which provides basic IT infrastructure for IT/ITES companies, but as a Centre of Excellence for frontier technologies that will encourage research and development in upcoming technologies capable of empowering lives of people as envisioned by the Government's latest IT Policy," Sivasankar told at a press meet in capital city.
