SINGAPORE: Japan's technology company NEC has initiated dialogues with the Indian government and public sector to set up an academy to build capabilities for cyber-security in the country.

"We have initiated discussions since the beginning of this year on collaboration in cyber-security and safe citycapabilities in India," Koichiro Koide managing director of NEC India said.

Speaking to PTI on the sidelines of the Interpol World 2015, he stressed on the need to build capacities and capabilities in the form of hardware, software and manpower in India.

"We have the concepts for cyber-security and safe-city, but we need the Indian government support to proceed with building up resources," said Koide at the three-day Interpol World Congress.

Cyber-security is one of the strategic collaborations being worked on government-to-government basis between India and Japan.

Koide said the first likely collaboration for an academy or laboratory-type set up would be with the central government around Delhi area, following which several such collaborations would be worked out across the country.

NEC, he said, would also consider taking equity in academy type collaboration through the Public Private Project schemes and other ventures. The company expects to see a formal shape of the proposed academy by end of this year.

The company, though widely known as information technology and telecom-infrastructure player in India, has planned out concepts of safe city for the planned 100 smart cities.

The concept includes critical infrastructure management, inter-agency collaboration, law enforcement and information management.

NEC has already introduced face recognition technology for Surat City Police in February, and would like to offer additional technology-based expertise, such as automatic finger printing for making cities safer by control crime rate.

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