Aishwarya
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Vinay
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santhoshramdoss
Santhosh
Shital
Shivam
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In an interview promoting his new book, India Arriving, Rafiq Dossani (former editor of Business India weekly) said that he sees the next Google coming from not Bangalore or even the developed world, but rather a small town in India.
Now, if you ask whether someone else might do that in India, and who that will be, well I have an answer that will probably surprise you. I think it will come not from Silicon Valley inspired startups, although several of those have been formed and are doing fairly innovative work, but catering mostly to the global markets. It will come when India’s local market reaches a certain level of maturity, and it’ll come from a small town. It won’t come from Bangalore or Bombay, Delhi, or one of those cities.
Dossani believes that the burgeoning entrepreneurial culture of India has reached much farther than the well-known urban centers, and that any city could be a hotbed for innovation.
I can give you one example. Indore is a small town by Indian standards, a very poor town, 2 million people, relies on soybean trading. You wouldn’t think Indore would be a bastion for software product development, but when I visited it, the first thing that struck me was when I spoke at a university, was how highly qualified the faculty was. And then speaking to students: how well trained they were. Even though their language was mostly Hindi and not English, they all used Google with complete fluency.
The entire interview can be found here.
Filed under: Social Entrepreneurship, Technology | Tagged: Entrepreneurship, Google, India Arriving, Innovation, New America Media, Next Google, Rafiq Dossani |
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Dear respected author,
I would partially agree to your views and assumptions.
But on the other side I like to mention, that in future the metapher of developing a new software paradigm is hardly to tell in advance. And even, when we do, it can come out counterproductice.
Par example I do use the film “Silicon Valley” sometimes in my seminars. When we watch the film which is certainly less informative than true reality we find out that there are a lot of synergetic elements that contribute to the context of Silican Valley and beyond.
They mainly belong to the development of American & Western & Multicultural Society and Technology and Psychology. Google will have soon here in Upper Austria a another Center and there are also some very interesting developments here at the time now.
So my view für the next googling step of software developopment is, that it may happen in a new pattern like for instance in a geographical distributed enterprise-matrix. One of the founding points could be indeed indore….another could be Hagenberg in Upper Austria, another somewhere in Indonesia or Australia….