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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (1317)	3/22/2000 11:23:00 AM
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India poised for an IT revolution - From the Singapore Straits Times There is no controlling the wildfire of India's IT revolution. It is not just the government that is pushing IT forward in India, but villages across the country are also vying to set up their software tech parks. And computer specialists who have made it in Silicon Valley are eyeing a bigger role as global players straitstimes.asia1.com.sg MasterPlan: Develop IT for the masses NEW DELHI -- The minister in charge of India's newly-established Ministry for Information Technology, has set himself the goal of developing IT for the masses. "I want IT to be used for distance education, for tele-medicine, for good governance. If you ask me what my priority is, it is not e-commerce because e-commerce will take place on its own," Mr Pramod Mahajan said in an interview. "But if I bring e-governance to this country in 10 years, it will remove the middleman; it will remove corruption; it will bring transparency. E-governance will become synonymous with good governance. "If I can use e-commerce for my agriculturists or artisans who are in villages and don't know anything about the outside world, then that is IT for the masses.... straitstimes.asia1.com.sg IT entrepreneurship dreams are hatching Indians are no longer content to form the cheap labour force of the multinational giants. They want to be their own bosses, as technopreneurs straitstimes.asia1.com.sg