APNIC Home APNIC Home
Info & FAQ |  Resource services |  Training |  Meetings |  Membership |  Documents |  Whois & Search |  Internet community

You're here:  Home  Mailing Lists s-asia-it/ 


[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

620 million Indians are waiting for IT



[from http://indev.nic.in/indev/profNewsItem.asp?id=189 ]

620 million Indians are waiting for IT

By Manjiri Kalghatgi, DATAQUEST / Sector(s) :: Information and 
Communications Technology
12/2/2002, News, Information technology. Indians

Over 62% of all Indians can’t use computers because they don’t know 
English. And despite a 20-year headstart, the Indian-language 
software industry remains less than a drop in the Rs 62,000-cr Indian 
IT industry. Bogged down by lack of standardization, the industry has 
been overshadowed by the success of software exports. But the 
burgeoning e-governance vertical and growing compliance to Unicode 
standards could well turn the fortunes of this industry

Read more here 
http://www.dqindia.com/content/top_stories/102110901.asp