Fostering Indian ICT to Global Reach: Role of DIT

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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_at_mit.gov.in
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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 Indias middle
  class every year
• IT and Electronics Production US 42 billion
  5yr.CAGR22
• 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

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India Strong Purchasing Power

• Purchases in a day in India
• Cars 2,416
• Two wheelers 35,264
• PCs12,643
• 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)

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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 80s created a zeal
  for some new achievements

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Positive outlook for Indian ICT industry

• Still a preferred destination for outsourcing
• New emerging areas Financial Analysis, HR,
  Engineering Designs, RD 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

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Focus Areas

• Information Security
• E-Governance
• HRD, e-learning, ICT Infrastructure
• Industry Promotion and Policy
• RD in key areas of Electronics and ICT
• Localization and Language Computing
• Telemedicine
• International Cooperation

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International OutreachAchievements of
International Cooperation Division
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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

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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

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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.

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ICT cooperation with Vietnam

• Supporting the Human Resource Development for
  Software Industry in Vietnam
• Training in OOD and Database Management (thre
  batches _at_ 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

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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

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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
• Honble 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

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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

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Centres of Excellence

• Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence for
  Communications and IT at Accra, Ghana inaugurated
  by Honble 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

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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 Europes Electronics Infrastructure to
  Expanding Frontiers (BELIEF)
• EU-India Grid-Joining European and Indian Grids
  for eScience Network Community

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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

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Cooperation with other Countries

• Mutual Recognition of DOEACC Courses with Japans
  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

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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
• RT 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)

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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

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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

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EU Framework Programme 2007 Challenges
Socio-economic goals
4. Digital libraries and content
5. ICT for health
6. ICT for mobility sustainable growth
7. ICT for independent living and
inclusion
1. Network and service infrastructures
2. Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Technology roadblocks
3. Components, systems, engineering
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Call Dates Indicative Budget
ICT Call 1 Call identifier FP7-2007-ICT-1 Date of publication Jan/Feb 2007 Closure date April 24, 2007 Indicative budget 1195 M
ICT Call 2 Call identifier FP7-2007-ICT-2 Date of publication May/June 2007 Closure date Sep./Oct. 2007 Indicative budget 497 M
ICT Call 3 Call identifier FP7-2007-ICT-3 Date of publication Dec. 2007 Closure date March 2008 Indicative budget 263 M
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For Further details and Interaction Dr. B. K.
Murthy bkm_at_mit.gov.in
Thank You