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
