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To: Boplicity who wrote (60685)	8/25/1998 10:01:00 AM
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To: Boplicity who wrote (60685)	8/25/1998 10:28:00 AM
From: Boplicity	Respond to of 176387

India prepares for Net revolution By Reuters Special to CNET NEWS.COM August 24, 1998, 4:20 p.m. PT NEW DELHI--As India opens up the Internet with the end of a state communications agency monopoly, computer industry players are involving themselves in the country's first major commercial Internet conference. India Internet World '98, a four-day conference and exhibition on how businesses can use the Net and electronic commerce, kicks off tomorrow and promises to be a catalyst for an industry soon to feel the first winds of privatization. "India Internet World will set the structure and framework for the development of the Internet in this country. It will provide an overview of the various perspectives on the impact of the Internet," Pradeep Kar, chairman and managing director of Microland, told Reuters. Micromedia, a unit of Microland, is organizing the conference along with the Asian unit of Mecklermedia. India is in the final stages of ending a state monopoly on Internet access, that has only garnered 150,000 users in three years. Analysts say this number could climb to 1.5 million in three years with unbridled competition. A national task force on information technology last month recommended 108 measures towards making India a computer superpower by 2008, with annual exports of $50 billion a year from $1.8 billion in 1997-98 (April-March). A crucial part of getting India to that goal is rapid spread of the Internet. The panel recommended Internet access in each district, school, college, university, and hospital by 2003. It asked the government to immediately end state control on the Internet and allow an unlimited number of ISPs. The panel also said ISPs should be allowed to have their own internatioal gareways and should not pay any licence fees. Mike Wescott, Mecklermedia's Asia managing director, said the conference would cover all aspects of doing business on the web-from being an Internet service provider to developing tools for Internet applications to producing content for Web sites. Electronic Commerce worldwide is expected to grow to $300 billion by 2002, from $9.0 billion in 1997. And global data traffic is expected to overtake voice traffic in 1999. Westcott said India was well positioned to take advantage of internet. "There is no reason that India can't be a leader. The skilled manpower is there, and it can learn from the mistakes and successes of the rest of the world," he said. He added that in many Asian countries there were constraints on Internet content, but in India there were limitations on infrastructure. "But these will go away, as the government is keen to spread the Internet," he said. Some of the leading Internet experts will present keynote addresses at the conference. Sabeer Bhatia, chief executive officer of Microsoft's Hotmail unit, Willam Melton, founder and CEO of CyberCash, and Mike Antonelli, IBM's Asia-Pacific program director for electronic business, will recount their Internet experiences. Westcott said he expected some 20,000 business visitors at the exhibition and 850 delegates at the conference. Many firms have already announced their intentions to jump headlong into Internet ventures in India. India's Dishnet today announced plans to invest 4.0 billion rupees ($94 million) in providing nationwide Internet services under the brand name ETH.NET.