Profile of Mr. N Vijayshankar (MSc, CAIIB, CIIF, AIMADM)

Naavi is the popular name by which Na.Vijayashankar, is known on the Cyber space.

Naavi is an E-Business consultant Operates from Chennai (Madras), and Bengalooru (Bangalore) in India and though not a lawyer, is an acknowledged expert in the field of Cyber Laws.
 

He is the author of the first book on Cyber Laws in India titled "Cyber Laws for Every Netizen in India" and the first E-Book on Cyber Laws "Cyber Laws..ITA-2000 and Beyond" much appreciated for its simplicity and timely exposition of the provisions of the Information Technology Bill-99, the first piece of Cyber Legislation in India. This book has been prescribed as a reference book for many courses in Madras University and other places in BBA and MA Courses in addition to Law courses. Latest version of this book is a comprehensive coverage on Cyber Laws covering Information Technology Act as also other relevant laws such as IPR etc.

Naavi is also the author of the first E-Book on Cyber Laws in India. "Cyber Laws in India..ITA-2000 and Beyond" released in mid 2003.

Naavi is the pioneer of the "CyLawCom" concept which promotes use of a voluntary Cyber Law Compliance programe by the industry. In this direction, h has authored the book "CyLawCom..Corporate Mantra for the Digital Era", introduced a CyLawCom audit and certification system and also created training and education for developing CyLawCom examiners. (Details at www.cylawcom.org).

The latest print book published by Naavi is "Cyber Laws Demystified" which is a comprehensive discussion on Cyber Laws and an enlarged print version of the E-Book.

In a bid to create better Cyber Law Literacy amongst the common men, Naavi has been pursuing a programme of creating mass awareness of Cyber Law in Karnataka through his "Karnataka Cyber Law Awareness Movement". (KCLAM). Under this programme, Naavi has brought out a book in Kannada titled "Antarjaala AparaadhagaLu" and created a Kannada website for Cyber Laws under www.naavika.org.

Naavi is also a visiting guest faculty at the School of Excellence, Dr Ambedkar Law University, Chennai. He is also involved in the training of TN Police in Cyber Crimes and assisting the Police in Cyber Evidence Collection and Management. He has also taught at the Department of Criminology, University of Madras and Nalsar University, Hyderabad and KLE Soceity's Law College, Bangalore, Hubli, JSS College, Mysore for Cyber Law related courses as guest faculty.

Naavi has also been in the forefront of Netizen movement in India. He is the founder secretary of Cyber Society of India, Founder Trustee of International Institute of Information Technology Law, and Founder Chairman of Digital Society Foundation.

Behind the current specialization, Naavi possesses over 30 years of extensive experience in many aspects of business and a sound academic grounding.

Having completed his Master's degree in Nuclear Physics from the university of Mysore, in 1973, Naavi joined a commercial bank, viz Indian Overseas Bank and served the Bank for over 13 years in various capacities such as Branch Manager, Faculty Member, Credit Manager and Merchant Banker. Naavi has taught Commercial law in the Bank's training college and functioned as head of the training center of the Bank at Coimbatore for several years.

After serving as a Merchant Banking Chief at Mumbai for over two years between 1984 and 1987, Naavi left the Public Sector Bank to join the private sector Financial Services Company, Nagarjuna Group in Chennai. In 1989 he moved over to RKSWAMY / BBDO to set up and lead the Financial Advertising business of the company. Between 1994 and 1997, he concurrently served as a consultant for a leading Finance Company Viz Shriram group and was also associated with an NRI group in promoting Finance and Software Marketing business in India. As an advertising consultant, he was associated in the process of developing communication strategies for various clients particularly in promoting IPO s and Financial products.

Since October 2000, he has been pursuing his own projects maintaining the Virtual Cyber Law College, www.cyberlawcollege.com and the Cyber law Portal www.naavi.org.

Cyber Law College conducts online and correspondence courses in Cyber Law and is the only such dedicated institution in India at present. It is in the process of developing off-line franchise centers also. It also conducts offline courses in several places in Karnataka.

Naavi.org is a premier Cyber Law information portal in India.

Naavi has also set up www.lookalikes.in an unique community service for Domain Name Dispute Resolution for which his Patent is pending in USA. He is also pursuing two other Patents for Web based services.

Naavi has also recently set up www.ceac.in a unique, first of its kind Brick and Click service for preserving and presenting Cyber Evidence to a Court of law.

The most recent initiative of Naavi is the setting up of www.arbitration.in, a portal for the development of Alternate Dispute Resolution industry in India.

All along, Naavi has been a regular contributor to various journals and news papers both in print and online.

Naavi was one of the early entrants into the Internet arena and soon developed into a E-Business Consultant integrating his versatile experience in a variety of fields into the software skills he acquired through formal and informal training in Java, UML , Elements of CORBA etc.

He has been associated with many web projects such as of Corporation Bank, Dena Bank, Orchid Pharmaceuticals, Hindu Mission Hospital etc. He has conceptualized and has assisted Deltagram in the development of their E-Business Strategy.

He has been a member of several working groups of the Government of India involved in Information Technology related matters. He is presently a member of the e-Governance Advisory Group, Government of Karnataka