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