History of Computing in India: 1955-2010

Technology Policy and National Identity: The Microcomputer Comes to India

“…1 It continues in the vein of Daniel Ortiz-Arroyo and his colleagues 2 and Zbigniew Stachniak, 3 who chronicled early microcomputer development experiences in Mexico and Canada, respectively, as a counterpoint to the American microcomputer experience. This work adds to existing literature on the development of the IT industry in India, notably from Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman, 4 Ross Bassett, 5 Joseph Grieco, 6 and Jason Dedrick and Kenneth Kraemer. 7 Political Economy of India: Independence to the 1970s…”

Multilingual Conversation ASCII to Unicode in Indic Script

“…[6] V.Rajaraman writes in 1998 the government took proactive steps to promote Information Technology by giving incentives such as tax breaks and reduced import duties. [7] Communication infrastructure also improved. The cost of computers came down.…”

Innovation and Development in Information Technology in India: Specific to Software Industry

“…It created facilities of infrastructure such as buildings, R&D work stations, power supply, high speed internet and satellite links to the software companies registered in these parks. The Bangalore was first city where STPs were setup and it emerged as global IT Hub for software development (Rajaraman, 2010). STPI are located at 15 major cities in India such as Pune, Noida, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Gandhinagar, Bhubaneshwar, Mohali, Jaipur, Mumbai, Mysore, Coimbatore, Manipal, Vizag, Guwahati and Chennai.…”

“…This scheme also provides single window clearance import certification, software valuation, permission of 100% foreign equity, marketing support and training facilities (Athreye, 2005). (Rajaraman, 2010). At the end of year 2016, more than 2200 IT/ITeS firms were registered to NASSCOM.…”

“…Source: Own compiled on the basis of data given by Athreye, 2005Rajaraman, 2010and GOI, 2015 Note: GOI-Government of India.…”