3. Definition of a - Superpower
• A country that has the capacity to project dominating
power and influence anywhere in the world, generally
characterized by strong growth rate, defense power and
foreign influence and so may plausibly attain the status of
global hegemon.
• Some Examples :
4. INFORMATION
• Information technology has put India on the
centre point of the globe. This is only field or
sector where India has competitive edge. India
on this field has made fast and influential
improvement, providing the economy a boost.
This has given growing base to the service
sector of the Indian economy.
5. India as IT Superpower?
• India's IT software and services exports alone
are estimated to cross an ambitious US$ 50
billion by 2012 (the NASSCOM-McKinsey 2003
Report).
• Mature processes (based on global standards
such as ISO, SEI CMM Level 5 and CMMi Level
5), that have given the Indian IT sector a high
quality, state-of-the-art-orientation
6. India's IT manpower forms the crucial link
• It will finally be the contribution made by
India's young IT talent that will tip the global
scales in the country's favour and establish it as
a "superpower" in the market.
7. India’s current status in the field of
supercomputers
•Computational Research Laboratories (CRL) of India has been ranked as the 4 fastest
th
supercomputer in the world and fastest supercomputer in Asia.
India, marks a milestone in India’s effort to build an indigenous
high performance computing solution.
8. • India
can boast of fifteen such machines of
which five systems are from Centre for
Development of Advance Computing (CDAC),
proving its status as a leading
high performance computing centre in the
nation.
9. Futurestudent of PhD student at MIT, Pranav Mistry, a person of Indian origin
•A 28 year
in computing – An Indian’s Sixth Sense
is the mastermind behind a revolutionary technology called ‘Sixth Sense’. He invented ‘Sixth
Sense / WUW ( Wear UR World)
‘ which is a wearable gestural, user friendly
interface which links the physical world around us with digital information and uses hand
gestures to interact with them.
10. Indians who made the difference
Many individuals like Dr. Vijay Bhatkar and Dr.
Ramani working in government
organizations, and individuals like NR Narayana
Murthy of Infosys, Azim Premji of Wipro and
Atul Nishar of Aptech and
Hexaware have put India at the forefront of
computing revolution.
11. outsourcing
• With over 410,000 employees, India is the 2nd
largest employer in IT software and services
industry.
• Huge pool of English speaking and computer
literate manpower.
• 70,000 private training institutes for computer
education – 1 million trained every year.
12. IT exports
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
India China Philippines Russia
2000 3 0.25 0.25 0.25
2002 8 2 0.4 0.75
2005 50 10 2 1.5
2008 80 25 8 3
