Looking for India's Zuckerberg; Indian Technology Firms  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 406 no. 8827 (Mar. 2013), page 13-14.
Topik: Information Technology; Location of Industry; Web Services; Innovations; Problems; Electronic Commerce; Entrepreneurs; Wireless Communications

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India's first information technology revolution began 30 years ago, when a few engineers came up with the unlikely idea of doing back-office IT work for far-off Western firms. Today that outsourcing industry is a capitalist marvel. Young Indians have seen that globalisation creates winners. India's reputation in the world has changed, too: Bangalore's shining IT campuses have become as famous as the Ganges and the Gandhis. Yet India has been a comparative failure in terms of innovation over the past decade. Only a few start-ups have made clever technical innovations that have been sold abroad. India boasts no big internet firms to compare with Chinese giants. As the wages of India's engineers rise, its IT industry cannot rely for ever on doing straightforward work cheaply for foreigners. The good news is that India now has a chance to lead again; the bad news is that this opportunity relies in part on Delhi's bureaucrats not messing it up. Only a fifth of Indians have credit or debit cards--and using them online is a nightmare. The telecoms regime is a tangle of overcomplicated rules and graft. India has the talent to lead in the mobile internet, as it did in outsourcing. But so long as Indians struggle to get a signal or to make payments, the revolution will be held back.

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