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Sneha Gilada  Hyderabad witnessed the inaugural of the seventeenth edition of Indiasoft on February 13, 2017. IndiaSoft is an initiative of the Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council (ESC), meant to connect the Indian IT industry to global buyers and potential clients.  The two-day event has an overwhelming global participation of over 400 delegates from 75 countries, making it an irresistible scouting ground for the thriving Indian mid-scale IT companies. The exhibit showcased innovative solutions in the field of big data, outsourcing, cloud computing, SAAS, e-governance, mobile app and website development. As many as 50 IT startups from all over the country exhibited their core competencies at the event, which was supported and funded by the Government of India. At the inaugural ceremony, Chief Guest Y.S. Chowdary, Union Minister of  Science & Technology and ...

The Dollar Business Bureau Now people will be able to fetch detailed information about the country’s special economic zones with the help of the “SEZ India” app that has been launched by the Commerce Ministry. The app has been developed by the SEZ Division, Department of Commerce under its broader e-governance initiative called the SEZ online System. The app will pave way for developers and units to file all their transactions digitally through the system and track the status as well. “The app would help the SEZ units and developers to find information easily and track their transactions on SEZ Online System,” the ministry said in a statement. The app is divided into four sections namely SEZ Information, SEZ Online Transaction, Trade Information and Contact ...

Source: PTI The template also includes participation in international events organised by each country and other aspects as jointly decided India and Jordan will be promoting co-operation in information technology and electronics (IT&E) under a pact signed in October, which was conveyed to the Cabinet at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday. The MoU focuses on development of and strengthening industrial, technological and commercial co-operation between the two countries in the IT&E sector and to implement institutional and capacity-building co-operation programme, an official statement said today. The thrust of co-operation includes identifying capacity-building areas and specific needs of the Jordanian IT sector, investment synergy among private and public entities of both the countries and business promotion. “The ...

 The Dollar Business Bureau The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Wednesday, gave its approval for the Smart Cities Mission and the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation of 500 cities (AMRUT). Individual outlays of Rs 48,000 crore and Rs 50,000 crore have been approved for spending under the two missions for the development of ‘smart cities’. Besides this, the Union Cabinet also gave its approval for the Central Government to spend over Rs 1 lakh crore on urban development over the next five years, under two new urban missions. According to the release, each city selected for development under the ‘Smart Cities’ initiative, would be getting a central assistance of Rs 100 crore ...

The Dollar Business Bureau | @TheDollarBiz Mobile phone connectivity has reached the most remote parts of the Sundarbans jungles, West Bengal, India, but internet usage remains low   There is a vast potential for the e-commerce sector to grow in India with the implementation of the Digital India programme, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Communications & IT Minister, said at the 10th national summit on E-governance & Digital India organised by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) in New Delhi yesterday. Prasad said, “I see a vast opportunity for e-commerce…I see almost an explosion of various kind of availability of services through e-commerce.” Retail exports (e-tailing) is a growing sector in India and e-commerce plays a key role in ...