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Fostering Indian ICT to Fostering Indian ICT to Global Reach: Role of DITGlobal Reach: Role of DITFostering Indian ICT to Fostering Indian ICT to
Global Reach: Role of DITGlobal Reach: Role of DITDr. B. K. Murthy
Head, International Cooperation and Industry Promotion: Software & ITES Divisions
Department of ITMinistry of Communications and IT
Government of [email protected]
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India: At a Glance
4th largest Economy in the world with sustained
GDP growth of over 8%; Growth rate of exports
32%
Fast growing Forex reserves - US$ 151 billion
(2006)
20 – 30 million people joining India’s middle class
every year
IT and Electronics Production US$ 42 billion
5yr.CAGR:22%
Share of GDP: ~5%; Share of ICT in Exports: 20%
Telephones (Fixed and Mobile) 177 million
Broadband Connections 0.8 million
Internet connections 6.5 million
6 million Mobile connections are being added every
month
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India: Strong Purchasing PowerPurchases in a day in India
Cars: 2,416
Two wheelers: 35,264
PCs:12,643
Laptops: 1,183
Gold: 1,918 Kg
Washing Machines: 4,274
TVs: 33,500
Fridges: 9,589
Air Tickets: 95,890 (Domestic);
24,657(International)
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Demography, Diversity and Democracy– Making Indian economy stronger
Ability to adapt to the new economy - Knowledge Economy
Traditional system of education with focus on mathematics and reasoning skills- Apt for IT Software and Services
Missing the ‘Hardware Bus’ in 80’s created a zeal for some new achievements
Reasons for Developing Economy
04/10/23
Positive outlook for Indian ICT industry
• Still a preferred destination for outsourcing
• New emerging areas: Financial Analysis, HR, Engineering Designs, R&D etc.
• IT Software & Services would cross US $ 60 billion by 2010
• As per NASSCOM-McKenzie Report 2005 the IT Software Services Market is US $ 300 billion and only ~ 10% is being tapped
• DIT is collaborating with developed Nations: to learn emerging
technologiesdeveloping countries: to assist them in ICT4D
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Focus Areas• Information Security• E-Governance• HRD, e-learning, ICT Infrastructure• Industry Promotion and Policy• R&D in key areas of Electronics and ICT• Localization and Language Computing• Telemedicine• International Cooperation• …
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International OutreachAchievements of International
Cooperation Division
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MOUs Signed by DIT• MoUs signed with 30 countries for bilateral
cooperation since 2000• Multilateral Cooperation with UNDP, WSIS,
ASEAN, EU, World Bank, Commonwealth Connects etc.
• Participating in JCM, JWG and other committees of DST, DoC and MEA
• Evolved many projects and setup centers of excellence (over 50 projects in the last 3 yrs.)
• NIC, STQC, CERT-IN and Societies like CDAC, ERNET, STPI, DOEACC etc. are helping us in the implementation of the specific projects
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IT Training Centre at Lao PDR• Establishment of National Data Centre at
Vientiane, Lao PDR • Release of National e-Governance plan for
the Government of Lao PDR • Developed National Portal• Set up an Advanced Training Lab and
Training of Govt. officials• Training of 30 MCA students in India to
start in 2007 from GGS IP University
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i-Community Research Project in
Thailand
• Being implemented by Operations Management Department of Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand.
• NIC is providing technical expertise in identifying the information needs and other expertise in ICT
• Software Training Road map for Thailand worked out by DoEACC.
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ICT cooperation with Vietnam
• Supporting the Human Resource Development for Software Industry in Vietnam– Training in OOD and Database Management
(thre batches @ 20 students per batch and 4th in Feb.’07
• Advance Resource Centre in ICT in Hanoi, Vietnam to be set up soon
• Super computing facility for Vietnam
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Cooperation with Nigeria
• Setting up of e-Governance/e-commerce network in Nigeria and West Africa
• Training Programmes conducted:– Network Management and Security– Total Quality Management– .NET Framework and Portal Development
Services
• Programmes proposed:– Applications of e-learning technologies in
education– Use of ICT for National Assembly of Nigeria
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Cyber City in Mauritius• Ebene Cyber City
– with an area of 172 acres of land, Office space of 42273.70 Sq M comprises of seven functionally specific zones Cyber Tower, Business Zone, Administrative Zone, Knowledge Zone, Commercial Zone, Hotel Complex and Cyber Village
• Hon’ble Prime Minister of India inaugurated the Cyber City in April, 2005
• 100% of the space in the Cyber Tower has already been leased out.
• Many Indian IT companies have their presence• Intelligent Building of the Year Award for 2005
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Proposed IT Parks and Centers of Excellence
• Near Mandlay, Myanmar• Ivory Coast• Fiji• Sri Lanka• Knowledge Park and Center for Excellence in
Bolivia• Center for Excellence in Tanzania• Center for Excellence in Seashells• Center for Excellence in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Centres of Excellence
• Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence for Communications and IT at Accra, Ghana inaugurated by Hon’ble PM of India in December 2003
• Atal Bihari Vajpayee Centre of Excellence in Mongolia In July 2003
• Jawaharlal Nehru India-Uzbekistan Centre for Information Technology at Tashkent in Apr. 2006
• Mirza Abdul Qadir Bedil IT Centre at Dushanbe, Tajikistan in July 2006
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ICT Cooperation with Europe
• France: – C-DOT-Alcatel Research Centre was set up in Chennai in
September 2005 to work in WiMax– NIC developed Open Source Colab-CAD
• Germany: A project on e-governance Business Development was considered for funding
• Setting up of IT Institute at Bosnia and Herzegovina in under active consideration
• Connecting ERNET India with European Research Network GEANT
• Two projects of ERNET India have been approved :– Bridging Europe’s Electronics Infrastructure to Expanding
Frontiers (BELIEF)– EU-India Grid-Joining European and Indian Grids for
eScience Network Community
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Cooperation with others
• India-Brazil-South Africa forum for cooperation in ICT (IBSA) has been set up
• CMU, USA has undertaken training programme for master trainers in information Security
• National Giba Bit Backbone over NIC Net is under active consideration for grant from Japan under JBIC ODA Package
• Mutual Recognition of DOEACC Courses and CITPM of Singapore.
• Conducting DOEACC Courses in Nepal and Sri Lanka
• Pan African Network for telemedicine, and tele-education applications
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Cooperation with other Countries
• Mutual Recognition of DOEACC Courses with Japan’s JETRO
• Conducted 3 seminars for ASEAN:– Information Security for System Administrators– E-learning and e-learning technologies– Shruti-Dhrishti (Web browsing through listening) for
the blind
• ICT Capacity Building for Democratic Republic of Timor Leste
• Development Gateway Foundation:– Research and Training Center at Bangalore
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Research and Training Center at Bangalore - Development Gateway
Foundation• A tool in each Enabling Technologies
• Internet technologies• Language technologies• Speech technologies
• An Application in each sector:Healthcare; Agriculture; Education
• R&T Centre ICT Portal www.ictrt.org.inEnd-to-end Solutions (C-DAC)
1. Localized Knowledge Management solution for the Healthcare sector (e-Kamps)
2. Small and Medium Applications for Rural Technicalization (SMART)
3. Multilingual Communication System with Virtual Classroom Facility (Vartalaap)
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ProjectsEnabling technologies (C-DAC)1. Community-based Content Delivery Network (CCDN)
2. Office applications suite in Indian Languages (BharateeyaOO)
3. Cross Lingual Information Retrieval (CLIR)
4. Text-to-Speech(TTS) and Automatic Speech Recognition(ASR) in Indian Languages
Enabling technologies (IITB)• Intelligent crawling, searching, browsing, indexing of
multilingual data on the Internet• Data Exploration on Heterogeneous Data Sources• Improving the Performance of Information Dissemination
Algorithms for Resource Constrained Environments• Support for DBMS on low cost Hand-helds
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Conclusion• MCIT has been collaborating with various
Developed and Developing countries in ICT sector• DIT is open to share the success stories of ICT
and provide expertise to the developing countries• DIT has been helping the ICT industry to foster its
business avenues and trade through International Cooperation
• Institutions like CDAC, NIC, STPI, DOEACC, ERNET, CERT-In, ESC, TCIL, MTNL, BSNL, ML Asia helping MCIT to implement specific projects under international cooperation
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2. Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
1. Network and service infrastructures
3. Components, systems, engineering
4. Digital libraries and content
5. ICT for health
6. ICT for mobility & sustainable growth
7. ICT for independent living and inclusion
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Challenges
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Call Dates & Indicative Budget
ICT Call 1 • Call identifier: FP7-2007-ICT-1 • Date of publication: Jan/Feb 2007• Closure date: April 24, 2007• Indicative budget: 1195 M€
ICT Call 2 • Call identifier: FP7-2007-ICT-2 • Date of publication: May/June 2007• Closure date: Sep./Oct. 2007• Indicative budget: 497 M€
ICT Call 3 • Call identifier: FP7-2007-ICT-3 • Date of publication: Dec. 2007• Closure date: March 2008• Indicative budget: 263 M€
