The Screen Revolution; Indian Technology  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 406 no. 8827 (Mar. 2013), page 59-61.
Topik: Geographic Profiles; Information Technology; Location of Industry; Call Centers; Web Services; Startups; Electronic Commerce; Wireless Communications

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India has already had one technology revolution. In the 1980s middle-class engineers from a dirt-poor socialist India somehow persuaded Western firms to outsource their back-office functions and bits of their IT operations to the subcontinent. Thus began a three-decade-long boom. The revolution fed its children well. Thanks to IT, some 3m Indians now work in well-paid formal jobs of the kind that India needs so badly. Technology services have saved India from bankruptcy--exports were 4% of GDP in 2012, keeping the balance of payments in passable shape. Yet all is not peachy. The IT-services industry is maturing. Other countries are building rival call centres. India has failed to produce a new generation of big tech firms. A mobile-internet boom, by contrast, will need a more competent state: one that unshackles payments systems, regulates telecoms sensibly and does not throttle everything with red tape. India has all the other ingredients it needs: entrepreneurs brimming with ideas and customers hungry for change. With the right framework, they could bring about a second technology revolution that dwarfs the first.

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