Arun Katiyar
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Arun Katiyar is a media
expert with over two and a half decades of professional experience. He has worked as journalist
and editor
with the India Today
Group.
Arun was the founder
and Chief Operating Officer
of the India Today
Group’s online venture
and was instrumental in setting up their online
global syndication
business. He later moved on to become the station director for the country's first 24 hour private FM radio station, Radio City (Indian radio station)
and then became Vice President, Operations, of Microland
's technical support business. In 2005 he led a start up as CEO called SEraja
funded by entrepreneur Rajesh Jain
that addressed the media-centric management of events using the Internet and mobile phones. Esther Dyson
's Quarterly Report on digital technology, Release 1.0, described SEraja as "perhaps the most ambitious events project"
they had come across. SEraja was the brain child of Ramesh Jain
, Donald Bren Professor in Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine
and the founder of IEEE MultiMedia
. SEraja failed to create the ambitious EventWeb it had set out to build. In 2007, the project had to be shut down.
Arun has produced a rock album for CBS
and has authored a book for Harper Collins Publishers—Bombay A Contemporary Account of Mumbai.
Arun attended St. Xavier's College, Mumbai from 1977 to 1981. He was listed under "Alumni of Distinction from St Xavier's College, Bombay"
in 2006.
Amongst the personal interests that Arun has pursued is cycling. He was part of the team that created the non-competitive 900-km bicycling event called the Tour of Nilgiris
in 2008.
He continues to write for a variety of publications and has been invited by UN Habitat to present his thinking in the area of urbanization and the environment.
Mass media
Mass media refers collectively to all media technologies which are intended to reach a large audience via mass communication. Broadcast media transmit their information electronically and comprise of television, film and radio, movies, CDs, DVDs and some other gadgets like cameras or video consoles...
expert with over two and a half decades of professional experience. He has worked as journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
and editor
Editing
Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information through the processes of correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications performed with an intention of producing a correct, consistent, accurate, and complete...
with the India Today
India Today
India Today is an Indian weekly news magazine published by Living Media India Limited, in publication since 1975 based in Mumbai. India Today is also the name of its sister-publication in Hindi...
Group.
Arun was the founder
Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...
and Chief Operating Officer
Chief operating officer
A Chief Operating Officer or Director of Operations can be one of the highest-ranking executives in an organization and comprises part of the "C-Suite"...
of the India Today
India Today
India Today is an Indian weekly news magazine published by Living Media India Limited, in publication since 1975 based in Mumbai. India Today is also the name of its sister-publication in Hindi...
Group’s online venture
Venture
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and was instrumental in setting up their online
ONLINE
ONLINE is a magazine for information systems first published in 1977. The publisher Online, Inc. was founded the year before. In May 2002, Information Today, Inc. acquired the assets of Online Inc....
global syndication
Web syndication
Web syndication is a form of syndication in which website material is made available to multiple other sites. Most commonly, web syndication refers to making web feeds available from a site in order to provide other people with a summary or update of the website's recently added content...
business. He later moved on to become the station director for the country's first 24 hour private FM radio station, Radio City (Indian radio station)
and then became Vice President, Operations, of Microland
Microland
Microland is an IT infrastructure services provider, offering services across Infrastructure Management, Infrastructure Modernization, Process Maturity Services, Assurance and Compliance, Technical Support, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Collaboration and Mobility....
's technical support business. In 2005 he led a start up as CEO called SEraja
funded by entrepreneur Rajesh Jain
Rajesh Jain
Rajesh Jain is an engineer and Managing Director of Mumbai-based Netcore Solutions Pvt Ltd, conceptualized in 1998 with the aim of offering affordable software solutions to Indian companies....
that addressed the media-centric management of events using the Internet and mobile phones. Esther Dyson
Esther Dyson
Esther Dyson is a former journalist and Wall Street technology analyst who is a leading angel investor, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and commentator focused on breakthrough innovation in healthcare, government transparency, digital technology, biotechnology, and space...
's Quarterly Report on digital technology, Release 1.0, described SEraja as "perhaps the most ambitious events project"
they had come across. SEraja was the brain child of Ramesh Jain
Ramesh Jain
Ramesh Chandra Jain is a scientist and entrepreneur whose decades long career has spanned several universities and startup companies. He is best known for founding the company Virage and working on some of the early visual information retrieval systems...
, Donald Bren Professor in Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine
University of California, Irvine
The University of California, Irvine , founded in 1965, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, located in Irvine, California, USA...
and the founder of IEEE MultiMedia
IEEE MultiMedia
IEEE MultiMedia is a quarterly journal, published by the IEEE Computer Society and concerned with multimedia technologies. Topics of interest include image processing, video processing, audio analysis, text retrieval and understanding, data mining and analysis, and data fusion.- External links :* *...
. SEraja failed to create the ambitious EventWeb it had set out to build. In 2007, the project had to be shut down.
Arun has produced a rock album for CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
and has authored a book for Harper Collins Publishers—Bombay A Contemporary Account of Mumbai.
Arun attended St. Xavier's College, Mumbai from 1977 to 1981. He was listed under "Alumni of Distinction from St Xavier's College, Bombay"
in 2006.
Amongst the personal interests that Arun has pursued is cycling. He was part of the team that created the non-competitive 900-km bicycling event called the Tour of Nilgiris
Tour of Nilgiris
The Tour of Nilgiris is India’s first and best organized Bicycle Tour.Billed as India's Longest Bike Ride, what makes this Tour more appealing is that this Tour is extremely well organized by professionals who share the vision of the ....
in 2008.
He continues to write for a variety of publications and has been invited by UN Habitat to present his thinking in the area of urbanization and the environment.
External links
- Extract from "Bombay - A Contemporary Account of Mumbai" by Namas Bhojani and Arun Katiyar, Harper Collins, 1996
- Podcast on The Kamla Bhatt Show on SEraja and its technology, June 2006
- Noted by Shanghai Daily for presentation at conference organized by the UN-HABITAT Japan office to discuss problems of deteriorating environment caused by urbanization, 19 January, 2011
- Directory of column for DNA newspaper, 2009-2011