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RSS government indianIndian government creates 'Ministry of IT'
News The Indian government is to set up a Ministry of Information Technology to promote the Internet and ecommerce. However, the government has yet to name a minister to run the department. The recently sworn in Bharatiya Janta party-led coalition will... [19 Oct 1999]
New Indian government a threat to offshoring?
Comment Anybody who has struggled with Indian bureaucracy and regulations will not imagine that such things will improve overnight, but any change in government will cause new, positive initiatives. My considered view is that the threat to Western business... [28 Jun 2004]
Offshore data protection law flounders
News Indian government promises of tighter laws to boost data privacy and intellectual property protection for western companies that have outsourced IT and call centre operations to the country are still in limbo - some seven years after first being... [03 May 2005]
India hands out new offshore BPO tax breaks
News The Indian government has introduced new tax breaks designed to head off any threat of firms withdrawing business process outsourcing (BPO) operations and moving them to cheaper offshore locations. But the move has led to confusion and concerns... [07 Jan 2004]
Photos: India 999
Photo The Indian government will help fund the rollout of a scheme created by an Indian outsourcing veteran to provide the country's first dedicated ambulance service. Now the government has agreed to help roll out the Emergency Management and Research... [01 May 2008]
Federal Disaster Assistance
White Paper When damage from an event is so great it exceeds the capability of local and state government or Indian Tribes to repair, the Governor can ask the President to declare an emergency or a major disaster in the affected areas. [14 Feb 2005]
Offshore Bangalore gets international airport boost
News The new Indian government has given the high-tech offshore hotspot of Bangalore a boost by signing an agreement for a new $284m international airport in the city. The Indian IT sector in Bangalore's Karnataka state has been pushing for the airport... [06 Jul 2004]
Open source apps given to millions in India
News The Indian government is trying to encourage the use of computers across the country by distributing free CDs that contain localised versions of popular open source applications. The Indian government's decision to ship free software in this way is... [26 May 2005]
UK government "open minded" on Indian IT companies
News The UK public sector is slowly warming to Indian offshore suppliers, even though central government has yet to sign many major contracts with the companies. At least one Indian company is involved in discussions with government, said Phiroz... [16 Nov 2005]
Indian IT giant targets UK government contracts
News Infosys' NHS contract could be the first of many UK government wins for the Indian IT giant, according its president and COO, Nandan Nilekani. The company became the first Indian firm to pick up an IT contract from the British government when it... [30 Nov 2001]
India facing offshore call-centre skills crisis
News The Indian government estimates the need for trained and qualified employees in call centres will reach one million by 2009 with an expected shortfall of more than 260,000 workers. This warning has also been coming from inside the Indian BPO... [12 Sep 2005]
The Gyandoot Digital Library Intranet
White Paper After highlighting the unique challenges of implementing a DL in India, this paper has focused on Gyandoot as a model for future rural DLs being initiated by the Indian government. A draft Indian National Library Policy on Library and information... [24 Feb 2004]
MPs ask for IT lessons from India
News The government has dodged questions about the adoption of Indian IT education schemes in the UK. Recently, there has been inward investment from Indian companies such as Infosys, Wipro and Tata Consultancy Services, which are all in the ICT sector. [22 Jul 2005]
An e-minister abroad (part 3): silicon.com joins Patricia Hewitt in Bangalore
News Patricia Hewitt is here to take part in the opening of IT.com, an exhibition billed as 'Asia's biggest IT fair', attracting Indian government and industry luminaries, the American ambassador and the minister of IT for Japan. [02 Nov 2000]
2004 is the year of Linux in India, says Oracle
News To counter the growing influence of open source software, Microsoft is considering sharing source code for its Windows operating system with Indian government agencies, as it has done in China. A number of other Indian state governments are... [13 Feb 2004]
