Bangalore, India’s version of Silicon Valley is targeting, 2020 as the date for it to become the premier hub for connectivity related innovation. Despite the startup incubators, global R&D centers, and modern city quarters, complete with highly skilled ‘new economy’ workers, Bangalore nonetheless remains deeply Indian. In the city’s traditional quarters the promises of ‘Digital India’ seemed to have passed by parts of the city’s day-to-day challenges. This article on Bangalore follows our ‘discovery report’ written following three days spent in Delhi studying the country’s digital transformation (c.f. article No. 10050).
Banglaore’s success story is built on a history of training and thus skilled labor, and an industrial policy that has allowed the city to seize the opportunities provided by the US IT sector’s ‘off-shoring’ plans, which started at the end of the 1990s. The UK set up the first aeronautics production center in India. Since independence, India has sought to make Bangalore the nation’s scientific research and technology capital, especially in electronics. However today Bangalore is more than a simp
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