HK Official Impressed by India's High Tech, IT Development
Monday, January 15 3:52 PM SGT
HONG KONG, Jan 15 Asia Pulse - Hong Kong Secretary for Information Technology and Broadcasting, Mrs Carrie Yau, Friday continued her tour to the most reputable centres for IT start-ups and hi-tech development in India.
Together with members of the Hong Kong delegation, Mrs Yau flew from Hyderabad to Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of India, where they first visited the International Tech Park, a Hong Kong government release said. The IT Park is an integrated technology park which brings together IT companies, both multi-national and Indian ones with a diverse range of IT know-how and experience between them.
Mrs Yau saw that one of the unique features of the IT Park was that the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore had set up a corporate school with IT training courses run by the leading international IT companies such as Compaq, H-P, Cisco and Microsoft.
With such collaboration with the private sector, the curricula are kept in breast with the latest technological development, the students can acquire the most up-to-date technical knowledge and they are guaranteed employment.
"I am very impressed by the rapid development of the hi-tech/IT parks in India," Mrs Yau said.
"The IT parks in both Hyderabad and Bangalore have played an important role in helping to create a cluster of IT companies and a critical mass of professional talents in the two cities. They have become the drivers of economic development with exponential growth of software exports and play a pivotal role in globalisation for India," she added.
Mrs Yau also took the opportunity to brief the CEOs of the IT parks on Hong Kong's Cyberport project which she emphasized would play the same important role, as the IT parks in Hyderabad and Bangalore, in making Hong Kong a leading digital city in the Asia Pacific Region.
The party next visited Infosys Technologies Limited, the largest information technology services company based in India, which delivers software solutions outsourced by leading IT companies worldwide.
Earlier in Hyderabad, Mrs Yau had visited the Hi-Tec City where small start-up incubation companies are provided with office space for no more than two years.
She was told that the first phase of the Hi-Tec City with about 50 tenants including Oracles, Microsoft, IBM, WIPRO was fully occupied. The second phase is in progress and upon completion by 2002, a total of 130,000 square metres office space with shared facilities including training and conference facilities will be provided.
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