India says its brains saved the world from the last colosso-crisis – cough, Y2K – proving it can become self-reliant
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Modhi yesterday delivered a coronavirus-related [1]address to the nation that included a big stimulus package and plan to emerge from a post-pandemic economic emergency. The centrepiece of that plan is self-reliance: Modhi called for India to produce more of what it needs and coined the phrase, “be vocal about local,” to help push the idea.
To illustrate that the idea can work Modhi said: “Remember, the Y2K crisis at the beginning of this century. Technology experts from India pulled the world out of that crisis. Today we have the resources, we have the power, and we have the best talent in the world.”
And it also has policies like Make In India, an effort to point out that multinational companies could manufacture for Indian customers in India. Make In India has resulted in the likes of Samsung, Apple and Oppo all making smartphones and other devices in India. India went hard for smartphone-makers and the fact that hundreds of millions of the devices can now be made there every year is now used as a demonstration of the nation’s high-tech manufacturing prowess.
Speaking at a Monday conference on rebooting India’s economy, minister for science and technology, health and family Welfare and Earth Sciences Dr Harsh Vadhan also touched on the self-reliance theme and suggested that Indian manufacturers and start-ups can deliver whatever the nation – and often the world – needs.
Plenty of challenges lie before India in achieving anything close to tech self-reliance. While its services giants are increasingly developing products, India’s underdeveloped physical infrastructure means large-scale logistics operations and manufacturing remain challenging to undertake.
However India is certainly not wasting the coronavirus crisis, unashamedly suggesting it’s a fine place to diversify if reliance on China has made manufacturers nervous. ®
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[1] https://pib.gov.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=203979
[2] https://go.theregister.co.uk/tl/1936/-8578/how-to-build-your-digital-experience-portfolio?td=wptl1936
"...we have the best talent in the world"
Well, if drivel and hype work for Trump, why not for India.
Are you insinuating something?
The reason the Y2K crisis did not "happen" is that a very large number of us spent a long time doing things about it.
I wasn't aware that we were all in India. I certainly wasn't there, but some undoubtedly were.
We are going to get the same sort of stupid statements about Covid-19 before long - perhaps like...
"The government said that the UK would have hundreds of thousands dead. What a waste of time."
"I know someone who knows someone who met a bloke in the pub whose sister was a nurse and she said that there were only XXX cases." and
"It was just a US disease. It didn't affect most of the planet."
The health workers who are still dealing with this are like the Y2K fixers. Either you don't fix it and get blamed or you do fix it and all the stupids say that there was never a problem. The big difference is that I didn't have to wear PPE and risk my life!
If India was a big fixer, thank you. It has certainly been since that time that we have noticed you more.
Re: Are you insinuating something?
Oh god... Don't get me started... You forgot the financial dig too:
"We paid you all this goddamn money to fix the Y2K problem, and nothing happened!"
Porkies.
All the best politicians have been telling them for thousands of years.
There is a reason the old saw "How do you know a politician is lying? His lips are moving." exists. And it's not because it's funny.
Why would anybody expect politicians from India to be any different?
I'll believe this....
.... when they outsource their call-centres to Newcastle!
Meh.
Their wages go up, the cost to use Indian resources goes up, the "quality" remains the same. What could possibly go wrong?
Well, they're pretty much replete with scammy call centres. How long before it'll feature in India's top 10 exports? Perhaps we'll start to take India seriously in the IT community when they make it easier to hunt down and shut down these very dangerous companies that keep springing up.
Great. Send back to India all those "brains".
Guess IT will become again a better place with better applications.