the content of the slides gives informtion related to inventions and developments done in INDIA on technology, science, computer and electronics. Gives information about open source and also inventions and developments done by Indian scientists.

2. 
India is one of the leading nations in the world in the fields of
computers, electronics and technology .
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India's growing stature in the Information Age enabled it to form close
ties with both the United States of America and the European Union.
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The Information technology industry in India has gained a brand
identity as a knowledge economy due to its IT and ITES sector. The
IT–ITES industry has two major components: IT Services and
business process outsourcing (BPO).
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The growth in the service sector in India has been led by the IT–ITES
sector, whose contribution to India's GDP grew from 1.2% in FY1998
to 7.5% in FY2012.
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The major cities that account for about nearly 90% of this sectors
exports are Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai.
Bangalore is considered to be the Silicon Valley of India because it is
the leading IT exporter.
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The "Top Five Indian IT Services Providers" are Tata Consultancy
Services, Infosys, Cognizant, Wipro and HCL Technologies.

3. According to Rank:
1.
BANGALORE ---- Popularly known as the Silicon Valley of India and
leading software exporter from India. Bangalore is considered to be a global
technology hub of India.
2.
HYDERABAD--- Hyderabad is a major IT hub in India which is also known
as Cyberabad which consists of many Multinational Corporation companies
such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon and Electronic Arts etc.
3.
CHENNAI --- Chennai is a major destination of India and is the BPO hub of
India. Chennai has the largest operations centers of TCS, and Cognizant.
4.
MUMBAI---- It is the Financial capital of India where many IT companies
have established offices.
5.
DELHI--- The National Capital Region comprising Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida
are clusters of software development.
6.
PUNE--- Major Indian and International Firms are present in Pune. Pune is
also C-DAC Head-Quarter.
7.
KOLKATA--- One of the largest cities in India, Kolkata contributes
significantly to IT exports.
8.
THIRUVANTHAPURAM--- The capital of Kerala houses all major IT
companies including Oracle, TCS, Infosys, and contributes in IT export of
India.

4. Firm
Revenues
Employees
Fiscal Year
Headquarters
TCS
$10.17 billion
254,076
2012
Mumbai
CTS
$7.05 billion
185,045
2012
Chennai
Wipro
$5.73 billion
140,569
2012
Bangalore
Infosys
$6.69 billion
153,761
2012
Bangalore
HCL
Technologies
$4.3 billion
85,335
2012
Noida

5. 
“Science is getting more and more internationalised,” Chidambaram said,
quoting at the National Science Foundation of USA.
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According to him-
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India, if it is to become a knowledge-driven economy, should have the
courage to be the ‘first introducer’ of new and advanced technologies.
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“To become a developed country, we must have a judicious mix of basic
research, applied research, technology development and manufacturing
skills,”

6. 
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The economic effect of the technologically inclined services sector
in India is huge. It accounts for 40% of the country's GDP and 30%
of export earnings as of 2006, while employing only 25% of its
workforce.
The share of IT (mainly software) in total exports increased from 1
percent in 2001 to 18 percent in 2001. IT-enabled services such as
back-office operations, remote maintenance, accounting,
public call centers, medical transcription, insurance claims, and
other bulk processing are rapidly expanding. Indian companies
such as HCL, TCS, Wipro, and Infosys may yet become
household names around the world.
Today, Bangalore is known as the Silicon Valley of India and
contributes 33% of Indian IT Exports. India's second and third
largest software companies are head-quartered in Bangalore, as
are many of the global SEI-CMM Level 5 Companies.

7. What does open source mean in India? Is there a
national consensus, or is it really driven state by state?
Also, what are the key open source technologies that
are existing in India today? Surely Linux, but what
others? Why?

8. 
Open Source in India simply implies a 'radical' and 'fresh' approach
to our burgeoning problems. Besides the Linux operating system,
LAMP as a stack is also catching on in India. The Open Source
development stack is becoming popular among students and
developers in general due to its easy availability and widespread
community support.
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Although the adoption of Open Source solutions in the Indian egovernance sector is primarily being looked at from a State
Government perspective, significant support is being extended by the
Central Government as well. For example, during the launch of a free
software CD containing Hindi language tools and fonts based on
open source software, our minister of Communications & Information
Technology, Shri Dayanidhi Maran, asserted that the freely available
(open) office suite is in every way the equal of (non-free) Microsoft
Office.

9. 
The open source community in India is one of the largest in the world. As
the market is maturing, organizations in India have slowly started accepting
the advantages of open source platforms and encouraging collaboration.

Open standards is a key facilitator for customization and innovation, and
the Indian developer community is creating OSS for a wide range of
applications.
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With the increasing adoption of business applications by the Indian small
and medium businesses, and cost being a key constraint in the adoption of
applications development tools, open source solutions offer an interesting
alternative. Government institutions and PSUs are in discussions regarding
the adoption of open source software, e.g., the Indian Railways is
supporting the deployment of Asterisk, an open source telephony platform,
for all new developments in internal telephone services.

10. The Government of Kerala, India, announced its
official support for free/open-source software in its
State IT Policy of 2001, which was formulated after the
first-ever free software conference in India, "Freedom
First!", held in July 2001 in Trivandrum, the capital of
Kerala, where Richard Stallman inaugurated the Free
Software Foundation of India.

11. The German-born Indian consulting technologist, Atul Chitnis was perhaps
best known as the founder of Foss.in—one of the world’s largest free and
open source software (Foss) events—held annually in India since 2001 (when
it was known as Linux Bangalore

12. Free and open-source software (F/OSS, FOSS) or free/libre/opensource software (FLOSS) is software that is both free software and open
source. It is liberally licensed to grant users the right to use, copy, study,
change, and improve its design through the availability of its source code.
This approach has gained both momentum and acceptance as the
potential benefits have been increasingly recognized by both individuals
and corporations.

13. Life gave them lemons. And they turned them into as perfect
lemonades. They are the ones that felt the necessity to
invent. They took the initiative to not only mend their own
torn shoes but also the society’s. They changed the world
and the way it lived. They, are the Indian Inventors.
Rockying celebrates some of the less known and the most
renowned inventors and innovators of modern times.
Unfurled here is history in the making...

14. .
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56-year-old Bhatt is an Indian-American computer
architect and his team comprises Bala Sudarshan
Cadambi, Shaun Knoll, Jeff Morriss, Shelagh
Callahan of the United States. The team was declared
the winner from Non-European Countries for creation
and development of USB technology. Wellestablished as an industry standard today, USB
technology allows users to connect various devices to
a computer. The technology is being successfully
used in billions of electronic devices ranging from
webcams to cell phones and memory sticks all over
the world.

15. The European Union awarded India-born inventor Ajay Bhatt-led team for
creating and developing the Universal Serial Bus (USB) technology, which
is considered as one of the most significant advancements since the
introduction of silicon chip.

16. 
An 18-year-old Indian-American girl has invented a super-capacitor device that
could potentially charge your cell phone in less than 20 seconds.
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Eesha Khare, from Saratoga, California, was awarded the Young Scientist
Award by the Intel Foundation after developing the tiny device that fits inside
mobile phone batteries, that could allow them to charge within 20-30 seconds.
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The so-called super-capacitor, a gizmo that can pack a lot of energy into a tiny
space, charges quickly and holds its charge for a long time, NBC News
reported.
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Khare has been awarded USD 50,000 for developing the tiny device. She has
also attracted the attention of tech giant Google for her potentially revolutionary
invention.

17. 
Teenagers of Indian origin won a raft of prizes at the annual Intel science
bash in what's now par for course, but although the top prize eluded them,
the most electrifying breakthrough came from Indian-American highscholar. A device she has developed can fully charge a cell phone in 20 to
30 seconds in what will be a boon for a gazillion mobile users who need to
juice up their cell phones quickly.

18. •Aryabhata was INDIA's first
satellite,
named after the great Indian astronomer of
the same name. It was launched by
the
Soviet
Union
on
19
April
1975 from Kapustin Yar using a Cosmos3M launch vehicle. It was built by the
Indian
Space
Research
Organisation (ISRO) to gain experience in
building and operating a satellite in space
•The satellite's image appeared on the
reverse of Indian 2 rupee banknotes
between 1976 and 1997.

19. 
India’s modest efforts to conquer the space that began in 1975 with the
successful launch of its first satellite Aryabhatta in 1975 have now come of
age. Today, India is among the select few space powers in the world to
launch foreign satellites and eye a big chunk of the $ 200 billion
commercial rocket launch industry.
India has sewn up space agreements with over 20 countries. More
importantly, it is now preparing for its Mars Mission in December
2013. It is no mean achievement for a country that was finding it
difficult to feed its own people till it successfully embarked on a
Green Revolution nearly half a century ago, is now aiming literally for
the stars!

20. 
Popularly called “The Missile
Man of India”, Kalam worked
as an aerospace engineer
with Defence Research and
Development
Organisation
(DRDO) and Indian Space
Research
Organisation
(ISRO).
Amongst
his
innumerous contributions to
the nation, his work on the
development
of
ballistic
missile and launch vehicle
technology fetched him the
title.

21. 
Recipient of India’s highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna (2007), for his
immense contribution to the scientific research and modernisation of
defence technology in India, Dr. Kalam was honored with the Padma
Bhushan in 1981 and the Padma Vibhushan in 1990, for his role as a
scientific advisor to the government.
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He carried out pivotal roles in developing the missiles Agni and Prithvi and
the Polar SLV and SLV-III projects.

This scientist, right from building a small helicopter for the Indian Army, to
directing Project Devil and Project Valiant, to undertaking a sortie in a
fighter aircraft, to looking at an evolved India as his mission, has dedicated
his entire life to the nation.
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Mission: He aims at transforming India into a developed nation by 2020.

22. 
VA Shiva Ayyadurai is the founder of email service company EchoMail, Inc.
EchoMail's core technology originated from Shivas invention for classifying
inbound email for the US White House.

23. 
Based in USA, this Mumbai born Tamilian developed a full-scale emulation
of the interoffice mail system, which he called "EMAIL" and copyrighted in
1982.
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In 2007 he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship and returned to India to
study the linkages between traditional medicines and modern systems
biology. In 2012, he launched Systems Health™, an educational program
for medical doctors which integrates concepts from systems of holistic
medicine such as Siddha, Ayurveda, and Traditional Chinese medicine with
systems science and systems biology.
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He has also authored three books on the Internet and EMAIL: Arts and the
Internet, The Internet Publicity Guide and The EMAIL Revolution (to be
released in 2013).

24. o Dham, all around the world, is known as the “Father of Pentium”
microprocessors. He is also known as the co-inventor of the flash
memory technology. Flash as we know is memory storage in a little chip,
popularly called the SD (Secure Digital) card used in USB drives, digital
cameras and many other storage devices.
o Presently, Dham, 62, is the chairman, president and chief executive
officer of Silicon Spice, a communications technology development firm.