E-learning Outsourcing industry in India is expected to achieve revenue growth

The E-learning Outsourcing industry in India is expected to achieve revenue growth by $603 million by the end of 2012. The Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) is expected at 15 percent per year, which might also waver till 2010 because of the global economic recession.......the growth rate of the e-learning industry will be slow for coming 6-8 quarters, but will attain its pace by then.....The e-learning industry earned a profit around $341 millions in the year 2008...... Prestigious institutions like Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) are actively adopting e-learning courses... .... The greatest challenge faced by the players in the industry is the acceptance of the concept of e-learning amongst the people as they do not understand the value of the software for learning purposes......
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Some good links!

James Gosling interview on JAVA
http://intruders.tv/en-tech/exclusive-interview-with-james-gosling-the-father-of-java/

3 Key Lessons for an Entrepreneurial Internet Company- Hoffman (CEO LinkdIn)

http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=1687

His Is The Team India Needs!

His Is The Team India Needs!

These are the days of election fever and every politician is suffering from it. Many have started showing the symptoms of the high fever, you might have observed some ads flooding the web saying “XYZ for PM”. And I feel sad for it, because this thing once again proves that we Indians always try to blindly copy things from west or make something which is somehow an Indian version of an American thing.

I strongly think that Indian people feel proud in “Importing Ideals”! Same disease has attacked our leader who is just dying to be PM [sorry to say this but it’s what seems!].

Many politicians in India got impressed with campaign of the Obama for the presidential elections in America. I don’t know are these some politicians are impressed with what he does and what he speaks. I think this leader of ours don’t know India is not a presidential democracy and India doesn’t need only a good PM but a complete perfect team of visionary leaders under a visionary-strong PM. He thought its really simple to replace some words from “OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT” and put it as “XYZ FOR PRIME MINISTER”! I think this copying business must stop and this thing has to be initiated by the Leader. This statement itself denies capability of the XYZ as PM (as leader)! And say him don’t project yourself, project the team you have! Hope he gets it.

In situation like this India needs a visionary who can take nation to another level in such economic scenario, India needs team of the leaders who can dream big for nation and make it true through their efforts. It needs a leader who knows who can fit where, India needs a leader who can take the strong decisions on security front, who can keep the head high while talking to the president of America. India needs a leader who can warn neighbors and if required show them the army forces.

Let’s start analyzing the people we have, with such capabilities and with a great team of possible ministers to do that perfectly. We have in the line self claimed would be PM Mayawati Ji, aggressively approaching Advani Ji and Narendra Modi, willing/unwilling [I don’t know exactly, I think even he don’t know it exactly] to be PM Dr. Manmohan Ji, LaLu Ji and Sharadchandra Pawar.

You believe or not, but this is the set from which you are to get the solution for the PM.

Let’s see who has what.

Maywati Ji: I appeal citizen of India please don’t select such leader, otherwise our coming generations will curse us every day. Do you think such leader can think of the economical growth? What India needs is to come out from this recession, bring more job opportunities to nation, have the sustained and inclusive growth of nation. She is not the person who can do that.[How can she do that if she does spend all her time in spending money (which is public property) on mounting her statues ] She claims the votes in the name of the Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, has she ever followed this leader. The greatest defeat of the Ambedkar’s thinking is done by people like her who still claim to be leaders of “Dalit Movement”. I don’t think it’s a movement that Ambedkar wanted for the Dalits to follow. She must have sanyas from politics and think over it is she doing what Ambedkar wanted!

Advani Ji and Narendra Modi Ji: NO FUNDAMENTALIST SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO RULE THIS SECULAR NATION. [Though they show that they are not fundamentalist, THEY ARE!] I will not waste my time in describing them how they can’t do what nation needs now. India knows it very well. We have seen the Naked and Hungry children when these people were shouting “Shining India-Shining India” and Later on we saw burning India! So we are wise to decide on it!

Manmohan Singh Ji: He is great as Finance Minister and as an Administrator. But he is soft, sufficiently kind and insufficiently strong for the post of PM [I am not pointing his incapability, he can give best of him at the Finance Minister post] He is best as the FM, he can be part of next team!

LaLu Ji: I know some will point out what he did for railways, for them I will like to force you remember what he did with Bihar and abChara.

Sharad Pawar: At this point you might have got an idea of Whose team [not whom] India needs. This is the leader who can manage all those best people in whom India needs as Leaders. I see he is the visionary for the Prime Minister of India post!

[He don’t know me, I am not a member of any political party! I am just a common man who is searching for a person whom I can recruit as leader of my nation!]

He is good at interpersonal relations which you might have guessed from the role he played in the Confidence motion happened because of the nuclear deal last time. He has friends in every field like business, literature, academia and sports (J). He is strong enough, he is kind enough, he is perfect for the post! His experience from the Agricultural ministry and his knowledge about the rural India (Which I think none of the above put contestants have as much as him) will definitely help in strengthening our domestic market concern, inclusive growth. His international identity [Refer cricket, Bill Gates visit to the Baramati (his constituency) and many other examples of his international identity (pohach)] will definitely take us a step higher in the international scenario as a nation and a culture. He is an entrepreneur too [You want a leader as an entrepreneur like Obama, see we have it! (For those who still demand chocolate like America (J!)] He is passionate about work; he works for 15 plus hours a day [for the people of nation]. He is one of the very few leaders who knows more than their secretaries (IAS officers) for their department. He is the one who has seen Indian politics from the grass root level. I remember of a story I read about him in which he used to visit the government offices daily on bicycle for sanctioning scholarships of the students whom he personally didn’t know, can any one do this without any passion in belly for the social cause? He is the one who brought people from every strata of society to the parliament, to the state assembly. I remember he was one who supported naming of the “Marathwada University” as the “Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University”.

He is true visionary leader with innovation in brain, compassion in heart and passion in belly! No doubt he can take India to a next step on Social and Economic front!

With this I appeal all you reading this blog post [random(less) thoughts] to think seriously about the future of nation, for that think of the right candidate to do that well. I specially request Sonia Gandhi to think beyond politics and parties to put him forward as Leader of Nation. [Or I request you people to create a situation where she has to do this] Now you know what you have to do!

Disclaimer:

1. I am not a member of NCP or any political party

2. I am not paid by any one to write this [I care and love my nation and I think it’s my responsibility to be active in giving it in the best hands]

3. This post is outcome of my observations and the post is completely my personal opinion and has nothing to do with my friends family and organization.

4. The purpose of post is not at all to force people to vote for NCP [It’s you who is going to make the final decision]

And Important Thing-Remember to Vote!

Copyright: Any one can copy it and post it just mention credits to this blog!

India must initiate structural reforms in education: Pitroda

India has to initiate "structural reforms" in the educational system if it wants to reap the benefits of its "demographic dividend", National Knowledge Commission (NKC) Chairman Sam Pitroda said here Thursday.....
...."Today education has become indispensable to the country's ambitions in the knowledge economy and therefore there is a need to develop a new knowledge paradigm, simultaneously addressing concerns of disparity and inclusion," Pitroda said.

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State Bank of India comes with Online Loan for studies

First of all Congrats to SBI on this move. SBI has come up with the online form submission for the education loans. Those who want to take advantage of this may visit http://www.sbi.co.in/eduloan.jsp and also let others know about it.

Shyam Bhau on Shiv jayanti ....!

महाराष्ट्रातल्या कोणत्या मास्सणवटेत जरी गेला आणि " छत्रपती शिवाजी महाराज की ... " आशी एक जोरदार आरोळी ठोकली तर तिथे पुरलेले मुडदे देखील " जय !!" म्हणून साद देतील , इतके प्रचंड उपकार शिवाजी महाराजानी मराठी माणसावर , या महाराष्ट्रावर केलेत. जिवंत माणसे तर सोडा पण दगड माती यात देखील शिवरायणी जीव घातला होता , म्हणून तर मुकी जनावर देखील तेव्हा " माझा महाराष्ट्र " आस स्वभमानाने मनात होती. पण आज त्याच महाराष्ट्राच काय झाल आहे ?

भाषेचा , राज्याचा आपल्या इतिहासाचा देखील आभिमान आज कोणात दिसत नाही. आम्ही " शांति - सर्वा धर्म समभाव " आड लपत आपले कर्तव्य टाळत आहेत. शांति - सर्वाधर्म समभाव याच्या नवा खाली आपला आभिमान विसरने , आपल्या संस्कृती वर होणारा परकीय घात पाहत थंड राहणे म्हणजे भ्याड पनच आहे. !!. हे आस चालू आहे म्हणूनच आजपावतो परमवीर, धर्मवीर संभाजी देखील वाईट रंगवला गेला आणि आम्ही मात्र शांत राहिलो. वयाच्या 16 वर्षी शंभू ने "बुधभूषण" सारखा राजकारण, युध नीती यावर संस्कृत ग्रंथ लिहाला हे कोणाला माहीत होते ? आज शंभू राजे आडकले , उद्या कोण आसेल सांगता येणार नाही.

आज कित्तेक शाळा , शासकीय कार्यालया मधे शिव जयंती साजरी होत नाही. (( ताज उदाहरण , एस. जी. जी. एस. नांदेड मधे मागच्या 5 वर्षा पासून चालू असलेला शिव- जन्मोस्तव या वर्षी रोखला जातोय. हे उदाहरण माझ्या लेखात नव्हते. )) ही कशाची सुरूवात म्हणायची ? आपण याला बंधन घालायला हवे की नाही ?

शिवरायंच्या या महाराष्ट्रात महाराष्ट्राच संपवायला आलेल्या ओरंगजेबाच नाव आम्ही एका शहराला दिल आणि आजही तेच बोम्बल्त फिरतो. फक्त एक " सामना " आणि काही शिव प्रेमी त्याला " संभाजीनगर" म्हणतात. आसो स्वाभिमान हा जन्म जात आसवा लागतो , बळच कोम्बता येत नाही. पण निदान मी तरी संभाजीनगरच म्हणणार .

शिव जयंती च्या तारखाचा दुसरा एक वाद. बहुदा ना सुटणारा. पण मला वाटते जे झाले ते झाले , दोन तर दोन. पण त्या दोन्ही दिवसी मराठी माणूस एक्जुटच आसवा. दोन्ही दिवसी जयंती उत्साहाताच होणार.

उद्या शिव जयंती माझ्या तालुक्यातल्या लोकल पेपर मधून "राख व्हायची वेळ आली , आता तरी स्वाभिमाणाचे निखारे पेटू द्या !!!" या लेखातून मी काही विचार मांडले , त्यातलाच हा काही भाग. पण एक सत्य निदान आता तरी मराठी माणसाने जाग व्हायलाच पाहिजे !!!

शिवजयंती च्या हार्दिक शुभेच्छा !!


- श्याम वाढेकर

one laptop per child

India has unveiled plans to produce a laptop computer costing just $US10 ($15) to help improve the skills of millions of students across the country.
The laptops will be mass-produced as part of a government-sponsored education scheme launched on Tuesday in the southern city of Tirupati.
Details about the computer remained scarce, but Higher Education Secretary R.P. Agrawal said last week that it would be available within six months."Once the testing is over, the computers will be made available on commercial basis," he told the Press Trust of India news agency."Its cost will be $US10. If the parents want to gift something to their kids, they can easily purchase this item."The laptop will reportedly have a two gigabyte memory and wireless internet capability, but officials have not publicly demonstrated a prototype - or yet explained how it can be produced at such a low cost.The government has earmarked more than 46 billion rupees ($A1.4 billion) to develop the low-power gadget to work in rural areas with unreliable power supply and poor internet connectivity.
The planned laptop is part of a push to increase the number of students in higher education and give them the technological skills needed to further boost India's economic growth.New Delhi rebuffed a previous attempt to bring cheap laptops to India, led by MIT computer scientist Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child program.The government cited hidden costs for its rejection of that computer, which was dubbed the $US100 laptop.

source:http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2009/02/03/1233423216397.html

for more: http://www.laptop.org/

Information Technology Business Today and Tomorrow / Towards Domestic market

Information Technology has played a strong role in shaping the growth of the Indian industry in last decade. But the current market scenario has taken the air out of many of our big business houses. Recently I attended INDIA IT 2020 Conference where I found many interesting things which can be shared here. The conference was attended by many big leaders of the IT industry some of them were- CFO TCS, CEO Mastek, people from BPCL, Microsoft and many other IT companies were present. The conference had many parallel threads on Technology, Business, Infrastructure & Today in these fields. These were followed by the panel discussions on topics relating to current (IT) market scenario and solutions to problems in it.
The technology session on the Natural Language Processing was very fruitful. It was chaired by Dr. Pushpak from IIT B. The special thing about this event was presence of grand father of Indian IT industry Dr. F C Kohli. His vision for the IT in India in 2020 was clear and called for the development in Indian Language Technology. He asked the Indian IT industry to take the Domestic market seriously and to do that first of all they have to take the Indian Language technology very seriously as the major route to the Indian mass is through their language. He talked about the penetration of the computers and the need of accelerating growth of hardware industry in India. And all that I learned from his vision is – We need to make softwares which our grandfathers can understand.
(Meeting F C Kohli sir was one of my dreams since my graduation and I am happy that I got to make it happen here!)
The Infrastructure sessions that I attended discussed the infrastructure development in the rural India for the future IT industry coming there. Broadly everything else may it be Business thread or the Today one directly or indirectly saw opportunities in the domestic market. But the final panel discussion showed their (IT giants) unwillingness to business with the domestic clients as some of them see it as unprofitable business (as overseas client pays in dollars and these fellows spend it in Rupees, the margin is high and for the Indian clients these get in Rupees and need to spend in Rupees, the margin is low) also some complained about the attitude of the Indian clients (they said Indian clients asks for a lot in the same cost and stay on asking for more with no extra cost (don’t the overseas client do this? )).
I was pleased to see that people have started to think about rest of the India (Bharat - the India other than metropolis/even some metropolis are part of this India). But the major thing that worries me is about why will one use IT in rural India and will he afford the cost? Because ultimately the end customer of the service/product will be the common man residing there in the village or town. If we see the contribution of these areas to the GDP it’s really poor. And then in such situation how can you find the customer there? It seems like opening a mall in the middleclass (actually poor class) areas of city where people have simple lifestyle and they are not fond of brands. Will the mall survive?
And I think that’s why we don’t have profitable (IT) business in Domestic market. Our customers don’t afford even our own services and the ones who afford it can also afford the imported ones. So they go for the imported ones (the typical Indian mentality (not Bhartiya) -Go for the imported ones when affordable (debatable)) So, first of all, I think, we have to make our customers wealthy, it will take some time, but will give long lasting fruits to the Indian economy/Indian IT industry and every industry which have to see towards the west for the customer. So the principle now is not: Create need for a product -> Make product ->Sell it!
It’s now Create customer ->create need ->make product ->sell it!
(Obviously for wealth creation at both the ends for both the cases)
And this added phase will also lead to the inclusive and sustainable growth of the nation.Broadly I don’t see this different than the vision of Gandhiji – Let’s go to true India!

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Jai Mahrashtra!

BAN FUNDAMENTALISTIC EDUCATION SYSTEM

Disclaimer: I am not an expert who can give an expert advice. But I am the one who suffers when these terror attacks happen!


All that happened in Mumbai was not an accident. It was well planed and managed attack. I pay homage to all the brave policemen, police officers and fighters who confronted the terrorists by risking their lives in the mission. No doubt Mumbai will stand up again within few days. But this time it will not only stand up the way it used to after every terror attack. This time it’s different, its attack from front directly on face. The first thing astonishes me is that how did they dare to do it? (the most useless question!) Man they have XXXX our YYYY and we are asking how? No doubt we don't have good Intelligence agency (Concluded from this incident, don’t tell what they did before), weapons, strategies to fight such attacks and many more things which common man like me don’t know. (This is nothing but crying on the situation, blaming each other!)This need to be improved.(At least this time we should learn from history)

I find the roots of such terrorist thinking in the education that you get. The fundamentalists are born out of the education that they get. If you are taught from childhood that your purpose on this earth is to destroy some one (I don’t say it’s taught in the schools these terrorist* come from (If some one relates this to particular religion, Mr./Ms. you are wrong!)). The education doesn’t mean only what you learn from syllabus. It’s also the environment given to one for studying that syllabus and to broader level it’s the input from culture (environment) around you which is feed to you in your learning (not that learning which continues for ever)-days . And so coming to point BAN THIS (may it be from Hindus, Muslims, Christians or any religion**) FUNDAMENTALISTIC EDUCATION SYSTEM, or if some one says we don’t teach fundamentalism (which gets converted to terrorism) keep a strong watch on them. Otherwise we are going to loose lives those of Hindus, those of Muslims, those of Christians better say those of the beautiful creatures of GOD, in similar ways. Let’s teach every coming generation love, peace, truth, non-violence and every thing that strengthens the bonds between people all over the world, weakens the boundaries (Respecting each others origin!) and finally makes the life more beautiful! (Or at least No Blasts and No Attacks)


Clarifications:

*Terrorist: one who fights out of fear of ones non-existence!
** I know no religion teaches the violence, but the fundamentalists interpret it that way