Among his professional activities are: his membership of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Information Technology at Allahabad during the formative years; serving as the Governor of the International Council for Computer Communications, Washington DC; being on the Advisory Committee of G. Sanyal School of Telecommunications, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur; and serving as Director, Zee Telefilms and Sonata Software. The ubiquitous connectivity requires a completely fresh approach like technology neutrality in the licensing regime.