Introduction
Information Technology does not exist for its own sake. It is not a fashion; it is not a lifestyle statement. Industry delivering IT products and services does not exist for its own sake either. IT cannot survive as an export, fashion or lifestyle statement.
IT is used to meet societal needs. As long as IT meets the societal needs, IT industry will thrive and so will the society.
Information contributes to more than 40 percent of the GDP. When the economy gears up to service more than a billion Indians information, and not material, drives its key success. Information technology can thus contribute enhance the GDP and revive the slumped economy while benefiting the sagging IT industry.
The contribution of IT to the information needs is not IT enabling of services, nor is this business process outsourcing. IT for society drives the key processes that service society’s needs.
This Direction Paper is a perspective on the IT needs for society. A perspective does not see different things. If done well a perspective sees the known things differently. By looking at known things differently can help new markets to emerge as well as provide new directions to move ahead.
This Direction Paper played the role of a provocateur, an outline, and a direction for discussion at the Goa Agenda.
The leadership summit
• Home
• Fact Sheet
• IT
needs of Society
• Emerging
Markets
• Operations
• Monitoring & Management
• Planning & Governance
• IT Markets
• End Note
• Discussion Forum
• Practical Information
• Acknowledgements
• Photo Gallery
