E-BUSINESS IN INDIA

E-BUSINESS IN INDIA

E-business: is the automatic business practices using advIT/IS. This automation improve business by reducing time it take people to carry them out and reduce errors by human intervention.
Electronic business( known as e-business) is at a young age in India and the growth is slow and is confined to few major cities. The slow in the growth of e-business is due to the fact that lot of people in India don't have to internet or can't afford to have one. In the US, for example, more than 41% of the population are online and do businesses online, while in India less than 0.5% of the people are online and less than 10% of those online buy product online.
some of the reason for the slowness in the growth of e-business in India is because of lack of Infastructure. For the e-business to be successful people should have access to internet and telephone but the India's telecom is still in the early stage.

Estimated value of Ecommerce in India

sources:

http://www1.american.edu/initeb/mk5916a/ecom.htm

LANGUAGE & CULTURE

LANGUAGE & CULTURE

 

According to the department of Information & Technology of India, the department of Information Technolgy initiated the TDIL ( Technology Development for Indian Languages) with the objective of developing Information processing Tools and Techniques to facilitates human-machine interaction without languages barrier; creating and accessing multilingual knowledge resources; and integrating them to to develop innovative user products and services.

 

UNICODE SCRIPTS OF INDIA

UNICODE standard are widely used by the industry for the development of multicultures languages. There were some modification on the unicode standard for adequate representation of the Indian Script. Any changes to the UNICODE standards are made by the Information Technolgy Department in consultation with respective state government and Indian IT and Linguists.

 

 

IT WORKFORCE

 

The Indian Universities produce more than 135,000 graduates from years. However, the NASSCOM predicts a shortfall of IT workers in India due to the fact, India has become a major suppliers of IT workers for United States of America and Europeans. Eventhough, the salary of IT workers has increased 23% over the years, many people opt to move to the United States for better pay jobs. The average pay of skilled IT worker in India is $20,000, which is one fourth of their counterpart in United States.

There are some areas in the IT industry that are growing consederably, this include back office operation, remote education, data search, market research and customer services. Most of the United States' companies have customer service hub in India that provide customer service via the telephone.

 

Estimated workforce composition in India (30)

sources:

http://www.mit.gov.in/

http://www1.american.edu/initeb/mk5916a/itwork.htm

Introduction & IT Infastructure

My global IT assignment is on India.

Introduction:

India: is found in Southeast Asia and it is the seventh largest county in the world, the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the India ocean on south, the Arabic sea on the west and the Bay of Bengal on the east.

IT Infastructure:

Information Technology in India account for substantial part of the country GDP and provide job for lot of people.India has become the major outsourcing place for American company because of it IT infastructure.

Inorder to strengthen IT in the country, the government of India has established a department responsible for Information Technology, the department main objective is to "make India, global Information Technology superpower in the world, and the front runner in the age of Information revolution". The department works in the following areas:

Creation of wealth

Employment Generation

IT led growths

The governement of India is aware that the growth in IT will lead to sustainable economic growth, because of that they have setup committee that will monitor the growth in the industry and its effect on the economics.

The chart below gives statistics of the growth in the industry from 2004 to 2007.

India's IT industry (USD bn) [Source:NASSCOM]

Particulars	FY 2004	FY 2005	FY 2006	FY 2007E
IT Services	10.4	13.5	17.8	23.7
- Exports	7.3	10.0	13.13	18.1
- Domestic	3.1	3.5	4.5	5.6
ITES-BPO	3.4	5.2	7.2	9.5
- Exports	3.1	4.6	6.3	8.3
- Domestic	0.3	0.6	0.9	1.2
Engineering services, R&D and Software products	2.9	3.9	5.3	6.5
- Exports	2.5	3.1	4.0	4.9
- Domestic	0.4	0.7	1.3	1.6
Hardware	5.0	5.9	7.0	8.2
Total IT industry	21.6	28.4	37.4	47.8
- Exports	13.4	18.2	24.1	31.9
- Domestic	8.3	10.2	13.2	15.9

Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Technology_in_India
http://www.mit.gov.in/