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Building Trade Capacity & Attracting FDI

Emerging Emerging Imperatives from Imperatives from the ICT industry the ICT industry experience in Indiaexperience in India

P. Rajendran, NIIT , India

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The Drivers

1. Seeding of the IT hardware industry

2. Disruption caused by IT3. Active leadership by private

sector in skills development & increasing employability

4. Active Industry Forums 5. Government reforms

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Disruption caused by ICT

• Some capabilities ahead of domestic market needs in ’80s

• Entrepreneurship in non-formal education sector

• On-site, Offshore, Nearshore • Innovations in Govt. policies• Quality processes ahead of clients• Outsourcing : a top-level

responsibility

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Capacity Building

• Private sector investments in non-formal education sector creating massive scale-up Consumer pays fees All asset investments by firms Different courses & modes of

delivery

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Case of NIIT

• Started with Teaching-Hospital model

• Vision for the Education group of :

•Life-long training partner (insuring against professional Obsolence) : “The Inspiring Mentor”.

•Becoming the #1 in the world

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Case of NIIT1 Youth in Universities Dual qualification with a 3-

year program with one-year internship

Create and deliver ICT curricula with lecturer training

2 Working professionals Upgradation of skills

3 In Government & private schools

IT and IT-assisted classes, and teacher training

4 Mass awareness Short courses on IT usage

5 Open learning for children Hole-in-the Wall learning stations in playgrounds

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NIIT Scorecard• Over 3 Million adults trained• Created over 800 education

centres and e-learning platform• In 30 countries • In India, at school level:

– 4.2 Million children– 1 Million teachers– 5,200+ schools covered

• Pays tax and publicly listed

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NIIT – recent innovations

• Institute of Finance, Banking & Insurance – with equity participation by leading Bank

• Using asynchronous learning technology to take management education delivered by the top management schools (Govt. owned) to in-service executives to 6 cities now, 70 more in 5 years

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Foreign Investments

• Government allowed participation of FIIs in the secondary market; progressively increasing the limit of holding in companies

• Liberalised laws to enable firms to seek foreign investments through the primary route

• Made it easier to list on foreign stock exchanges – GDR, ADR issues

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The UnforgettablesThe Unforgettables• Government reforms• Innovative policies :enable

entrepreneurs• Private sector participation in capacity

building• Capable and forward-looking Industry

Association• Breakthrough improvement in

Quality

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