Monday, September 21, 2009
India’s software Silicon Valley, Bangalore
Bangalore is the capital of the Karnatake state located on the Deccan Plateau in the southeast. Before the development of the IT industry, it was the place renown as the leisure for the honeymoon and retiree.
In the book, “The World is Flat”, by Thomas L. Friedman, I found out the name of the city “Bangalore” which is renown as India’s software Silicon Valley. The author discovered an ideological theory, “ The World is Flat” when he return from Bangalore, India.
There are three big companies, which are Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services and Wipro to lead software technology in the industry of Bangalore, India. The article, “Bangalore” by Richard Rapaport describes the present feature of Bangalore:
“Over the last quarter century, as hundreds of corporations have
moved in to take advantage of Bangalore’s temperate and dust-free
climate, cheap housing, and work force educated in information
technology, economic growth has bred a new set of woes. In that
time , the city has quadrupled in size, real estate prices have
quintupled, and a once gracious metropolis has began to choke
on its own pollution and gridlock.”
Also another article, “India’s Tech Renaissance, 2005” by Michael Kanellos explains well about the origin of the outsourcing industry in Bangalore. Fixing the Y2K problem, the Tata’s outsourced service made a tremendous product. From this burgeoning technology industry, India started to draw new phases in its economic evolution.
In India, there are problems that are in the way of developing the IT industry such as lack of infrastructure, authoritative government‘s restriction and India’s tax system etc. However, outsourcing could be the key to solve the problems because much of India’s population possesses well-educated young mind and people who work for relatively low wages. Bangalore has been presiding the global high-tech hot spot in the world through its geographic and human resources. I believe “the world is Flat”, this means that there will be no more guarantees that Americans or Western Europeans will be able to continue leading the way.
