Computer Society of India

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Computer Society of India

• Country Report
• SEARCC Round Table
• Lalit Sawhney, 26th Sept 2005

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Background

• Booming IT Industry
• IT and IT-enabled Services
• 1 million professionals
• Export-led growth
• Supported by large pool of engineering talent
• English-speaking professionals to support the
  west
• Cost advantage, meeting global expectations of
  quality and delivery capability
• Becoming the IT off-shoring hub for the world
• Exposure to the best IT hardware, software, IT
  services concepts and infrastructure management
  practices and tools
• Beginning to reflect in increased IT usage at
  home
• IT applications in business, industry, SMEs,
  government, and
• now Govt. - citizen interface
  too
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background

• Profession set for explosive growth
• Software Exports, Outsourcing / BPO / IT-enabled
  Services
• Domestic IT
• Supported by increasingly sophisticated telecomm
• However future success will need
• Order of magnitude increase in the number of
• Trained professionals
• Informed users (with a driving license for IT
  usage)
• Faculty
• Domain knowledge of Industry Veticals
• Meeting challenge of taking IT to the masses, use
  within local environment
• Development of local applications
• Providing access to IT, training and education in
  local languages
• Putting up relevant IT and Telecom Infrastructure
  in cities, towns and rural areas
• Interface with Government, govt. applications
• IT profession stands at the threshold of
  opportunity

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CSI

• Completed 40 years in March 2005
• 30,000 members, 67 chapters, 200 student branches
• Membership not growing
• Value proposition for members to be re-defined
• For IT user community, Hardware / Software
  Professionals, Academicians, Researchers,
  Students
• Member benefits, services to be improved
• Society establishment to be strengthened
• Low membership fees
• Society small in the context of the booming IT
  profession

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Current Activities

• Conferences and Seminars, conducted across the
  country
• Applications oriented
• IT in Defence, Silk Industry, Power, e-Education,
  e-Commerce, IT Infrastructure for Universities
• Technology focused
• Human Computer Interaction, Network Distributed
  Systems, Grid Computing
• National Conventions held annually
• Mumbai, Dec. 2004
• Hyderabad, Nov. 2005
• Awards for Professional Recognition
• Young IT Professionals
• Best Use of IT, Packaged Applications,
  Shrink-wrapped Software
• Best CIO
• e-Governance
• Education, Assessment, Faculty Development
• Monthly Publication, Refereed academic journal

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Best Practices in e-Governance

• Award winners for 2005 National e-Governance
  awards Best Governed State, e-Governance
  project, Development Agency
• Registration of Official documents
• Agriculture
• Citizen Services
• Transport Department
• Resource Planning for Municipal Corporation
• Village Commerce and Services
• State Chief Ministers Office Management System
• PKI Implementation

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Expectations from SEARCC

• Enhancing co-operation between member countries
  and the Region
• To share IT applications
• Advance the State of knowledge
• Share best practice in IT Usage, Service
  Excellence, Software Development and
  Implementation, leading edge applications and IT
  Governance
• Promote collaboration amongst our IT companies
• To jointly address IT opportunities across the
  Region, and outside the Region
• Using the best strengths available across the
  SEARCC member countries, in terms of
• Trained Manpower, IT education
• Exposure to sophisticated IT applications and
  Infrastructure Management practices, and
• Industry-Vertical Domain Knowledge
• Enhance co-operation between member societies
• To share ideas on serving our membership better
  and become more relevant
• To market our society amongst prospective
  members, academia, business and industry,
  government and policy makers