Bridging more than the digital divide

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The Microsoft Country Manager, Mr Ravi Venkatesh, announced the opening of their innovation centre at Bangalore, which would create an independent software vendors network to convert ideas into intellectual property.

He said, 'India is a country with one-third of the world's software engineers and malnourished children. It had 7-8 of the world's millionaires and ranked 127-128 on the Human Development Index and there was a greater need for cooperation among government, private enterprises and NGOs to bridge the digital divide.'

The other panellists included the Ranbaxy CEO, Mr Malvinder Mohan Singh, and the IIT professor, Mr Ashok Jhunjhunwala, who shared their views on the role of technology in areas of healthcare and agriculture.

Telemedicine

' Telemedicine was emerging as an important area in the healthcare sector and technology would further enable to drive down the costs in the area, as it has happened in the case of prices of medicines for HIV-AIDS,' said Mr Singh.

Mr Ballmer commented that over the last five years about 1.2 million jobs had been created in the healthcare sector in the US and this happened when all other sectors had been witnessing job cuts.

Taken from Business Line

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