GTT & Aikon Labs partner to enable community, collaboration and project execution by students

Aikon Labs LLC and Global Talent Track Private Limited (GTT) have entered into a strategic alliance to enable GTT students to leverage the community, collaboration and project execution functionalities provided by Aikon’s PlanetAikon™ Platform.

GTT’s GKPPP (Global Knowledge Platform for Professional Practice) powered by PlanetAikon will enable students to connect with other students, mentors and reviewers in a virtuous cycle to share, discuss, collaborate, mentor and finally execute projects assigned to them.

GTT is in the business of providing industry relevant guidance and learning to students with a view to ensuring higher levels of employability. GTT has alliances with Cisco and University of Pune and has been funded by Helion Ventures and Intel Capital. It is an innovative venture formed by successful industry professionals with rich background in IT, BPO, Banking, Education and Retail sectors. GTT specializes in designing engaging learning content, providing the technology platform to host the content and managing the entire learning delivery process. It is looking to engage 50,000 students in the next one year through its various curricula.

Aikon Labs LLC provides a project aggregation and execution platform- PlanetAikon™, together with the supporting ecosystem aimed at incubating innovative ideas. Aikon is focused on building a community centric innovation network by co-opting a diverse community of Ideators, Contributors & Sponsors that can help transform Ideas into Software by leveraging the skills and efforts of the community. PlanetAikon™ provides best-of-breed Web 2.0 functionalities that enable its members to connect, collaborate and co-create solutions, through well-orchestrated processes and tools.

“We see this as a great partnership that can initiate the long tail of IT innovation. Students who get exposed early in their careers to Web 2.0 tools for collaboration and project execution can become the next generation leaders and innovators. They will redefine the way in which new products get created and monetized”, says R R Dasgupta: Vice President – Community & Partnering Strategy at Aikon Labs LLC.

Satish Duryodhan – CTO of GTT says, “Industry relevant project work is the key component of professional practice. The industry relevant project addresses the issue of poor quality of output from large number of institutions.  GTT projects as part of employability oriented courses for university are aimed at bringing in a number of ideas of the innovators –to- be converted to meaningful products in educational institutions. We see this as a critical partnership to provide integrated technology platform for project collaboration, online reviews, online guidance and student online community. The platform will be used by Students, Project guides, mentors and Industry forming an ecosystem.”

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