India's IT Story: 2013-09-22

Monday, September 23, 2013

Nehru: The Unlikely Hero of India’s Information Technology Revolution

A talk by author of The Long Revolution at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Libraray

http://www.nehrumemorial.org/perspectives-in-indian-development-series.php

Read the full NMMLOccasional Paper, published under the Perspectives in Indian Development Series:

http://www.nehrumemorial.nic.in/images/pdf/occasional/08_dinesh_c_sharma_op_8.pdf

This is the tale of great transformation – how a country engaged in exports of spices and gems became a frontrunner in a knowledge-based sector? How a country known for its red tape turned into favoured investment destination for American technology giants? India's success in information technology has been a saga of converting skills and knowledge into capital and wealth. The book is an attempt to document this amazing transformation. The IT revolution is often seen as a 'miracle' of the new millennium. There are myths and there is hype ('India is an IT superpower'). There are claims and counter-claims on who fathered this transformation. This book is an attempt to set the records straight. It is an account of computing and information technology industry spanning half a century. How Bhabha and Mahalanobis developed early computers? How IBM entered the Indian market and ruled the roost for 25 years? Why was its monopoly broken? How new age entrepreneurs outpaced giants of Indian industry? How did the state turn into a facilitator from being an overbearing controller? How innovative use of communication technologies turned pigmy software firms into billion dollar companies? What role forces of liberalisation played? Can this miracle be sustained?

India's IT Story

From the era of Nehru and Bhabha

... to the age of outsourcing

Monday, September 23, 2013

Nehru: The Unlikely Hero of India’s Information Technology Revolution

An Indian Journalist's Diary from the Arctic

Mahesh Rangarajan, Historian and author :

N Seshagiri, former Director General, National Informatics Centre: