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Kalam to inaugurate Bangalore IT.com 2002 today
Bangalore, Oct 28: President A P J Kalam will inaugurate the Bangalore IT.com 2002 today. It is billed as Asia`s largest IT event.
Bangalore, Oct 28: President A P J Kalam will inaugurate the Bangalore IT.com 2002 today. It is billed as Asia’s largest IT event.
The five-day annual event has attracted delegates and it firms from 17 countries and business transactions during the exposition is expected to be in excess of $ 250 million, according to Karnataka IT minister D B Inaamdar. Spotlight at the show, an initiative of Karnataka government in partnership with software technology parks of India, would be on emerging sectors within it – business process outsourcing, e-governance and banking and finance. The event aimed at facilitating business between technology companies and would provide a platform for the global ICT industry to promote its products and services and exchange information on market issues, officials said.
After inaugurating the fifth edition of the annual show at the sprawling palace grounds, Kalam would hold a class with 600 students on exploring the resources of the internet at Sri Kanteerava Indoor Stadium. He would later chair a panel discussion on e-governance conference "IT for the common man", where UK commerce minister Stephen Tims, Mauritius' IT and telecommunications minister Deel Chand Jeeha and chief ministers of Andhra Pradesh Chandrababu Naidu and Delhi Sheila Dixit would express their views.
Bureau Report
The five-day annual event has attracted delegates and it firms from 17 countries and business transactions during the exposition is expected to be in excess of $ 250 million, according to Karnataka IT minister D B Inaamdar. Spotlight at the show, an initiative of Karnataka government in partnership with software technology parks of India, would be on emerging sectors within it – business process outsourcing, e-governance and banking and finance. The event aimed at facilitating business between technology companies and would provide a platform for the global ICT industry to promote its products and services and exchange information on market issues, officials said.
After inaugurating the fifth edition of the annual show at the sprawling palace grounds, Kalam would hold a class with 600 students on exploring the resources of the internet at Sri Kanteerava Indoor Stadium. He would later chair a panel discussion on e-governance conference "IT for the common man", where UK commerce minister Stephen Tims, Mauritius' IT and telecommunications minister Deel Chand Jeeha and chief ministers of Andhra Pradesh Chandrababu Naidu and Delhi Sheila Dixit would express their views.
Bureau Report