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Nandan Nilekani: ideas for the future of India

I do not know if you know TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design), an invitational event where you can find the greatest thinkers of the world to present their ideas. Since this event is well on film, you can find all the videos on the TED website.

If I talk about this site today is that yesterday I stumbled upon a presentation of Nandan Nilekani, CEO of Infosys, one of the largest Indian IT consultancy. In addition to being CEO of his company, Nandan Nilekani has also written a book Imagining India: The Idea of ??a Renewed Nation, in which he poses some fundamental questions about the development of India.

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How India, who lived so much unrest in recent decades, managed to take advantage of its demographic? How democracy and EDUCED are highlighted in this country? And most importantly, how India will she protect the environment for future generations despite strong growth in recent years?

Nandan Nilekani is someone who thinks about India, and is a "great teacher" by Thomas Friedman.

In this TED presentation, he speaks of ideas (ideas) that will determine whether or not India will continue to grow crazy.

Among these ideas, there are four branches:

* The ideas that have already been adopted
* Ideas are being adopted
* Ideas in conflict
* Ideas should be anticipated. This is very important to avoid making the same mistakes that the developed countries.

I do not tell you more, but this video is very clear and didactic, and she deserves to confront myself with the English in Indian sauce (although we understand very well Nandan Nilekani in the video).

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Nandan Nilekani, co-founder of the world's leading IT outsourcing Infosys delivers his diagnosis on the future of India.

Nilekani is a figurehead of Indian capitalism again. Far from the merchant caste family lines which form its skeleton, and he is very critical, "NN", as it is called in India, is nonetheless a prominent member of the elite. Son of a Brahmin from Bangalore, the upper caste in Hinduism, it has the capital: the good knowledge of mathematics and abstraction in general and a great sense of hard work. Nothing more natural, therefore, he entered a seven Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), a sort of polytechnic in selection rate of about 1% of applicants. Contractor default, as he said himself, he became in 1981 one of the founders of Infosys.

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Eighteen ideas

The default test here now ... Those of a society and an economy whose Indian blockages are exposed by the global crisis in the process of winning. In methodical good programmer, he holds eighteen he gathers ideas into four categories. Those who would now be a large consensus in India, such as openness to globalization. Those that are still under discussion, such as type of reform to be implemented in education (private or public).

Then those that are controversial, such as special economic zones that have caused many deaths in some regions or even the struggle against the 200 000 farmers dam on the Narmada river. Finally, Nilekani gives some personal ideas, including the importance of new technologies.

But far from being an argument in their favor, it will be appreciated very much the long field survey (hence the 550 pages of the book) he has conducted for several years at the most elite modernist and India this in all areas. Thing in common: they are all heirs of Rajiv Gandhi came to power by accident too after the assassination of his mother in 1984 and will be himself assassinated in 1992 by Tamil rebels in Sri Lanka. This generation now sees his children arrive - the GenNext, as they call them - without completely managed to unlock some locks decisive, as shown clearly a very high poverty still present in most cities and countryside.

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Four solutions

His solution? They are obviously many, and is a good sign. But he identified four main areas: public education and universal primary education, urbanization, infrastructure development and the creation of a truly integrated internal market. There is also the idea of ??a minimum social security coverage.

But the major point concerns the possibility to implement these ideas, often shared. Just so once again the general finding of an administration and a political class incapable of doing so. It is not surprising that new technologies are often presented as an ideal instrument, offering the right tools for reform. But in fact, the Indian IT work for small domestic market (15% maybe) and has instead sought to attract Western India services. Nilekani recalled how Rajiv Gandhi faced a closed administration to a tool that brought more transparency, reducing corruption and bribes, and upset the caste relations. Result: Indian information systems remain underdeveloped, just as the show deficiencies incredible Indian security services during the terrorist attacks in Bombay.

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