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I see this having a wide ranging impact on the world. On people, on governments, and on environment. If what is described above starts happening, just imagine the new income opportunities that will spring up for people. I was told that young boys and girls in Bangladesh and Pakistan, who have only done some Quranic course in a madrasa and might have not found any decent job, are now teaching young Muslim children in the US how to read and recite the Quran. All this through a call center type of service. The global picture of distribution of wealth could see a shift. And over a 30-50 year period, the economic profile of this world could be completely changed.
Similarly, if IT and communications drastically cuts down the need to travel, there will surely be an impact. This impact will be across the board. Millions of people will be working from home instead of going to office everyday, and sell products and services on-line instead of taking cars and flights to travel all over. This would lead to people losing jobs in automobile and aircraft manufacturing, airlines, airports, visa offices, and so on. If people make payments using credit cards and on-line in their domestic currency, just imagine the impact on the demand for retail foreign exchange. Suddenly, you will see the demand for US dollars nosedive.
Further, just because people will need to travel less, pollution on the roads and skies will come down. But then the number of large data centers and the pollution from there could shoot up, disturbing ecology in a different way. What happens to the whole question of global warming then? On a completely different note, how does the nature of privacy and security change in a networked world where everyone knows and tracks everybody. The implications, as I said, will be lots.
While there is theoretical discourse happening on these issues, I am not sure if anybody is trying to work on some realistic projections and the numbers. How many people will benefit, what type of new opportunities will come up, in which regions, how many people will loose out, in what areas, what geographies, and so on?
My understanding is as ICT usage proliferates, the changes will become sharper. Economists, sociologists, politicians, and everybody else who has a role in national planning must start working on these lines. The world will be a new and changed place. And we must be prepared for that.
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Is India Prepared for disasters?I think your article ‘Is India Prepared for Disasters?’ (Dataquest, December 15, 2012) is a wake-up call for the Indian companies, relying increasingly on their IT infrastructure. Unfortunately, the EMC disaster recovery shows that a majority of Indian companies are likely to shell out only 10% of their annual IT budget to secure infrastructure as against 38% by the organizations across APJ (Asia Pacific and Japan). It is the need of the hour that companies insulate their IT infrastructure in order to ensure continued business.
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Out of AfricaSouth Africa can be a rewarding market for companies willing to reinvest in the business model, but can’t be a place for making a quick buck
The choice of Cape Town as the venue for this year’s Nasscom’s strategy meet gave me the opportunity to travel the country again. This is a country that has been an oasis of excellence for us in the African bush, presenting a choice
of truly supportive and knowledgeable clients.Preparing to present a workshop on the use of
cloud, social media, mobility, and big data for business benefit to a group of savvy CIOs in Johannesburg, I came across some revealing data. The country ranks eighteenth in the world in terms of its readiness to support the growth of cloud computing and fifth globally in usage of data from mobile computing, ahead of the US, which ranked seventh as reported in the Nielsen survey. A South African social media landscape study mentions that 95% of the local brands have active strategies in place to use social media for new and existing clients and this goes beyond creating a static Facebook page.
One of the biggest success stories in the use of mobility has been of Standard Bank, which has effectively deployed SAP’s Sybase Unwired platform and both standard and custom built mobile apps to create a low-cost banking services channel for millions of unbanked and under-banked consumers. Greatly simplifying account activation and credit card processing through a network of thousands of local support centers, the bank has been able to increase market reach, improve customer satisfaction, and build a differentiated platform that now permits cross-selling of related services and opened up a vast customer base for its products and services. Truly, an exemplary case of creating opportunity share through new technologies rather than jostling for market share
amidst fierce competition in an over-served market.The South African ICT environment is epitomized
by the above example—a curious combination of the very advanced and the very primitive. In the financial services area, where many years of isolation, thanks to apartheid, forced companies to invest in their home grown technology solutions, the clients tend to be very savvy but on other areas, there is a lot that country has to learn from the advances made both in the West and in tech savvy countries like India. The government has recognized the many shortcomings and have embraced Indian companies with open arms if they are willing to impart skills to local South Africans rather than do brute force offshore outsourcing.
During the three days, the Nasscom delegation was in Cape Town, it was a reaffirmation for the top CEOs of India what we at Zensar have experienced for the last decade—Africa is truly a land of opportunity but not for making a quick buck. Companies that are willing to reinvest in the business model, work with local customers, collaborators, and the government agencies to develop a symbiotic partnership that builds better technology and process solutions in the spirit of developing local self sufficiency. As a result, Africa will be a rewarding market. A role model may be for markets of the future for the Indian IT industry.
A survey report reveals that South Africa ranks eighteenth in the world in terms of its readiness to support cloud computing and fifth in usage of data from mobile computing, ahead of the US
The author is vice chairman and CEO of Zensar and a member of Nasscom’s chairmen’s council. He can be reached at [email protected]
DR GANESH NATARAJAN