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Fostering Indian ICT to Global Reach: Role of DIT

Fostering Indian ICT to Global Reach: Role of DIT. Dr. B. K. Murthy Head, International Cooperation and Industry Promotion: Software & ITES Divisions Department of IT Ministry of Communications and IT Government of India bkm@mit.gov.in. India: At a Glance.

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Fostering Indian ICT to Global Reach: Role of DIT

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  1. Fostering Indian ICT to Global Reach: Role of DIT Dr. B. K. Murthy Head, International Cooperation and Industry Promotion: Software & ITES Divisions Department of IT Ministry of Communications and IT Government of India bkm@mit.gov.in

  2. 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

  3. India: Strong Purchasing Power • Purchases 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)

  4. Reasons for Developing Economy • 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

  5. 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 technologies developing countries: to assist them in ICT4D

  6. 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 • …

  7. International OutreachAchievements of International Cooperation Division

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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.

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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.in End-to-end Solutions (C-DAC) • Localized Knowledge Management solution for the Healthcare sector (e-Kamps) • Small and Medium Applications for Rural Technicalization (SMART) • Multilingual Communication System with Virtual Classroom Facility (Vartalaap)

  20. Projects Enabling technologies (C-DAC) • Community-based Content Delivery Network (CCDN) • Office applications suite in Indian Languages (BharateeyaOO) • Cross Lingual Information Retrieval (CLIR) • 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

  21. 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

  22. EU Framework Programme 2007 Challenges Socio-economic goals 7. ICT for independent living and inclusion 4. Digital libraries and content 5. ICT for health 6. ICT for mobility & sustainable growth 1. Network and service infrastructures 2. Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Technology roadblocks 3. Components, systems, engineering

  23. Call Dates & Indicative Budget

  24. For Further details and Interaction: Dr. B. K. Murthy bkm@mit.gov.in Thank You

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