Apex Information Technology business body should come up in Noida: Hamid Ansari

New Delhi, Nov 5 (KNN) The apex Information Technology business body should come up in Noida, which is emerging as one India’s fastest growing technology hubs, said Vice President of India, Hamid Ansari.

Ansari stressed upon the need for IT firms to be more innovative citing that the future growth will be in being able to create futuristic business scenarios and engineering digital disruption rather than coping with its aftermath.

He was addressing the gathering after inaugurating the New NASSCOM Building, here today.

Lauding the role of IT industry, the Vice President said that the sector has been a major contributor to the country’s growth story in the last 25 years by way of an improved brand image, creating employment, contributing to GDP growth, creating avenues in technology education and contributions to e-governance.

He said while the growth trajectory of the sector was well charted, its challenges will come, in the shorter and intermediate term, from industry shifts such as Cloud Computing, evolution in Software as a service models, need to develop new products, Digital Disruption, and shrinking manpower needs because of software automation. It is likely that present and new clients will increasingly look for innovation partners rather than software partners, he added.

The Vice President said that NASSCOM must help India’s technology industry innovate, foster the next generation of start-ups and continue its work with the government to empower the billion Indians who stand at the edge of a digital revolution.