India: Intellectual Property Office
joins Twitter!!
Recently, the office of the Controller General of Patents
Design and Trade marks (CGPDTM) has created two twitter accounts, @cgpdtm_India
and @Ipo_India. Like other Government Departments, CGPDTM will also use social
media for conveying information to general public.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself encourages the use of
social media and recognizes that social media is the medium that will take
their word instantly to the people. He himself has two twitter accounts, a
personal one - @narendramodi with 4.8 million followers so far — and the other
one as prime minister - @PMOIndia which has logged 1.61 million followers
According to official sources, a report is to be compiled
every day on the trends on Twitter and other social networking sites. The
report is to be submitted to the prime minister's Officer (PMO), home ministry
and other ministries.[1]
Twitter has also launched Twitter Samvad, a digital
governance service part of the Indian government's Digital India initiative.
The service will essentially deliver a set of curated Tweets from the
government agencies and leaders' accounts to mobile users as SMS.
This initiative, taken by CGPDTM, will be a welcoming step
for conveying IP related information and for creating IP awareness throughout
the country.
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