IBM announces program for academia in India
SOURCE: Business Standard
DATE: June 20th, 2008
Mohit Soapbox:
It is encouraging to see the tie ups between corporate and academia. With everyone talking about a lack of qualified people a number of these initiatives have to yield results. India is still a long way to go where the academia is a rewarding career financially but the government seem to be opening up and providing faculty to collaborate and benefit from their initiatives. Seems like the quote about a lack of 1.5 million skilled IT experts by year 2012 is commonly quoted in all these announcements. Given the slowdown of the IT industry and the global spread of the IT vendors this # may be much lower.
IBM today announced the ‘Drona Partner Programme’for faculty members and for ISVs aimed at providing a platform for collaboration between independent software vendors (ISV) and academia,
At a function organised here, IBM India/South Asia Vice-President (Channels, Marketing and Ecosystems) Anil Menon, quoting industry sources, said approximately 1.5 million skilled IT experts will be needed by 2012.
“The overall aim of the Drona Programme is to demonstrate how IBM is collaborating with ISVs, universities and partners together to grow IT as part of the liberal arts”, he said.
The Drona Programme, which is expected to benefit such ISVs and faculty members, would pave way for better understanding on current requirements and bottlenecks for faculty members and to ISVs, he said.
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