The Times of India
Imagine. Filing an FIR online. A call centre for distressed farmers. A medical practitioner prescribing a drug online. Sit back and imagine. Truth is, information technology (IT) makes all this happen. But for fantasy (as the cynics would invariably label these ideas) to become reality, there’s need for a roadmap.
For this IT aircraft to takeoff, the runway ought to be clear. The flight path demarcated. For the meaningless box to become a meaningful tool, a social revolution needs to happen. The Times of India, over the next few days, would endeavour to do just this. Through our campaign titled My Hyderabad My Destiny, we’ll bring you myriad ideas. And, ideas touch off revolutions.
Hyderabad has acquired critical mass today. Even the man with a jaundiced eye would tell you this. Now’s the time to dig in and forge ahead. It’s a relentless pursuit. But it can be done. On March 15, we’ll attempt one such exercise. Billed as an enormous churning of ideas, The Times of India and Virtusa will bring you an IT summit—a meeting of eminent minds. Here, captains of industry and scholars will speak on how our city can be put on top of the charts. Not just in industry terms, but also as a phenomenon that enables everyone to feel and touch technology.
When we began talking IT, we felt the need for institutions to train engineers. Now that we have these colleges, we increasingly feel the need to tweak the syllabi to produce better-equipped brains. We have coffee pubs a dime a dozen around Hi-Tec City, but few of them are nurseries of path-breaking concepts. Reason: We are still seeking ways of harnessing the abundance of trapped energy. The campaign will seek a way for the tryst with destiny.
