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Atos, an international leader in digital services, and NASSCOM Foundation jointly announced the launch of National Digital Literacy Mission [NDLM] centers dedicated to training and imparting digital literacy at Vadodara, Gujarat. The NDLM centers will conduct skill development programs in the area of Information Technology for the aspiring persons interested to undertake IT literacy programs.

Atos in collaboration with NASSCOM Foundation, will endeavor to leverage the IT training as envisaged under the NDLM Scheme with the objectives of appreciation of Digital Literacy- that aims to make a person IT literate, so that (s)he can operate digital devices, like mobile phones, tablets among other electronic devices and send & receive emails and search the internet for information among other things.

Atos in India will facilitate the training infrastructure and the trainers at these NDLM centers with the help of NASSCOM nominated NGO’s at its respective location centers. These centers together will provide training on all digital devices, specifically, computers and mobile phones.

Once trained, the beneficiaries will be able to send emails, connect on social media, buy from e-Commerce websites, and will even know how to use internet to avail various government services such as registering for AADHAR Cards, Ration Cards, PAN Cards, and other such internet enabled services.

On the occasion, Surendrasinh Gohil, SVP & Head Global Delivery Centers for Infrastructure & Data Management Division said

As a leading international digital services company, we are pleased to announce our association with NASSCOM Foundation in accomplishing the larger goal of Digital Saksharta Abhiyan [DISHA] or also known as NDLM Scheme. The mission is both aspiring and ambitious in its scale to train the non-IT literate citizens to become IT literate. A sound foundation starts with a modest beginning; this is quite an enabling initiative across India. We are confident that this initiative will help a part of the society, that otherwise wouldn’t have been able to access the opportunities offered by the Digital economy in India. We are happy to partner with NASSCOM Foundation and Deepak Foundation in this initiative and look forward to make this community service a success for Vadodara citizens.

Shrikant Sinha, CEO, NASSCOM Foundation said

We believe that digital literacy is one of the most potent tool for the empowerment of the underserved communities in today’s digital and cashless economy. Working in partnership with Atos, NASSCOM Foundation is proud to announce the launch of four new centres across India, taking the total Atos Centre count to eight. Being digitally literate would help the citizens access services as Vadodara leaps forward in its journey towards becoming a smart city.

The National Digital Literacy Mission is a far-sighted, dynamic and integrated platform of digital literacy awareness, education and capacity creation programme that will help rural and the under-served communities to fully participate in the global digital economy. NASSCOM Foundation is the industry partner to the Government of India to accomplish the first phase goal for NDLM or ‘DISHA’ by making 52.5 lakh individuals in India digitally literate in the next four years.

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Focusing on the evolution of the Indian Business Process Management (BPM) sector and the role of new technologies in creating a strategic road-map for the future, the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) kick-started the two-day NASSCOM BPM Strategy Summit 2016 in Bengaluru. Growing at a CAGR of over 8%, the BPM industry clocked a total revenue of USD 28 billion during FY-2016. With a share of over 25% of the total IT-BPM exports, the industry added 49,000 employees to its workforce, at a rate of 4.7%, taking the total no. of employees to 1,086,000.

Speaking about the wave of change, Mr. R Chandrashekhar, President, NASSCOM said

Automation, Digitalized processes and new business models are enabling the BPM sector to take a step forward in adopting a more strategic role as compared to being just another outsourcing platform. The next wave of growth for the industry will come from increasing demand of technologies like advanced analytics, social media, mobility and other new technologies, driving demand for specialised services. The BPM sector has always been a major contributor towards the growth and the industry today has a more strategic and intellectual role to play, gravitating towards global competitiveness.

NASSCOM also discussed the preliminary recommendations of its Consumer Interest Protection Task Force (CIPTF) in dealing with reputational risk. These recommendations will be shared with the Government and other relevant agencies in greater detail. The recommendations identify the following intervention points to address cases of tech fraud, and enhance consumer interest protection.  

i. Prevention via development of a common code of practice featuring standards security, privacy and ethical practices

ii. Detection & Reporting by setting up an accessible whistle-blowing mechanism for registering complaints

iii. Investigation through an independent govt. investigation agency with the jurisdiction and power to co-ordinate between governmental agencies and departments

The Indian BPM industry is a leader in the outsourcing business with revenues of US $28 billion, this leadership position is built by providing high quality services as-well-as confidence to overseas clients that data of their customers would be safe and secure in India.

The recommendations and action points put forth by NASSCOM Consumer Interest Protection Task Force, will help create a more secure ecosystem for the industry, enabling it to focus on growing from strength to strength. For the BPM industry to grow to USD 50 billion by 2020, the BPM Council has taken certain focused initiatives to enable this progress. The BPM Council has focused on re-branding and re-positioning the industry from the supply and demand side respectively. In addition to this, the Council is working on building a Centre of Excellence on data sciences and capacity development for emerging players and skill and talent.

NASSCOM also announced the Top 10 BPM exporters in India for the year 2016. Genpact Ltd. leads as top exporter followed by Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. and Wipro BPO in second and third places respectively.

About NASSCOM

NASSCOM is the premier trade body and the chamber of commerce of the IT-BPM industries in India. NASSCOM is a global trade body with more than 2100 members, which include both Indian and multinational companies that have a presence in India. NASSCOM’s member and associate member companies are broadly in the business of software development, software services, software products, consulting services, BPO services, e-commerce & web services, engineering services and animation and gaming. NASSCOM’s membership base constitutes over 95% of the industry revenues in India and employs over 3.5 million professionals.

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Keeping in mind the growth of IT solutions in every step of marketing value chain, NASSCOM organized the second edition of the MarTech Confluence 2016 at Hyatt Regency in Mumbai. With the theme, Marketing Technology : The Innovation that drives ROI, this year’s confluence focused on the need for digital solutions to meet the rapidly growing consumer demand and information technology’s role in facilitating the expectations and strengthening customer engagement.

R Chandrashekhar, President, NASSCOM while speaking at the event said

Marketers today require integrated technology to support the complex challenges of becoming a customer centric enterprise, which understands their needs and changing preference in real-time. Building a set of new competencies keeping in mind the customer needs has become imperative and technology is going to help build that expertise.

Role of Technology in Marketing has increased in the recent times with technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics now playing major roles in understanding and meeting customer needs and creating more personalised solutions. The rising discipline of Customer Experience (CX) has helped companies put customer needs at the center of their planning and processes.

Marketers are now using CX solutions and measurement tools to track their ability to deliver customer-obsessed outcomes. As per NASSCOM reports, IT players’ share in global MarTech industry will grow to USD 45-55 billion by 2025. Revenues from customer experience segment itself will be around USD 13-1 5 billion, analytics will present a USD 12-14 billion opportunity, while creative design and mobile will be USD 8-10 billion and USD 7-9 billion respectively. The MarTech trend will also witness a shift in the role of Chief Marketing Officer (CMOs) role as they become key spenders with respect to not only customer facing technology, but also back-end infrastructure.

The new age marketing has become disruptive and technology has made communication real time and has enabled customers to search out information on their own terms and connect directly with brands’ content and commerce capabilities directly. Further, the ever-changing purchase paths of customers; the emergence of new channels, and the constant change in the MarTech landscape now poses challenges to marketers trying to optimize their budgets in an effort to win, serve, and retain customers.

According to NASSCOM, as more marketers will embrace omni-channel marketing, investments in the operations automation and integration of various online and offline platforms will rise and the market size for such opportunities would reach around USD 25 billion by 2025.

Besides adopting core technology solutions in the marketing function, marketers are also engaging with IT service providers for design development. Increasing digitization of the marketing function has changed the business model of companies and extensively impacted other functions such as product development, sales, customer service, supply chain, and IT. Marketing has become more aligned to business objectives with digital thinking becoming embedded into overall corporate strategy.

The day-long conference was attended by key industry leaders from the fields of IT, Entertainment, marketing and advertising, who discussed the new and unique ways that companies can adopt . Some of the key speakers at the event included R Chandrashekhar, NASSCOM; Dave Frankland of Selligent, Vivek Prabhakar of Chumbak, Siddharth Banerjee of Vodafone, Nischal Shetty of Crowdfire and Malini Agarwal of Miss Malini Blog.

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The National Association of Software & Services Companies [NASSCOM] launched The Future of Internet in India report in partnership with Akamai Technologies. The study was researched and created by YourStory in collaboration with Nasscom and with supporting data from Akamai and other sources. The report, launched by R Chandrashekhar, President, NASSCOM and Dr. Tom Leighton, Co-founder, CEO Akamai Technologies, aims to understand the impact of the Internet on the way we live, learn, work, shop and connect and focuses on the future trends that will change the landscape of India by 2020.

Speaking at the launch, R Chandrashekhar, President, NASSCOM stated that

India’s Internet consumption has already exceeded USA to become No. 2 globally. Keeping into consideration the massive impact that the Internet is creating across sectors, it has become the greatest disruptor of our age by changing the way we work, interact socially and live life in general. By 2020, the Internet is expected to penetrate deeper in the hinterlands of the country, helping to create more opportunities for everyone.

The rapid growth of the Internet and its expansion into verticals including e-Commerce, Travel and Hospitality, Public Sector, Financial Technology and Media is a clear indication of the state of things to come.

According to the report, India’s Internet user base is the second largest after China. Globally, the number of Internet users is expected to touch 4170 million by 2020 [Source – DazeInfo]. The growth of the Internet has successfully created a strong ecosystem for new businesses to tap into growing markets and create solutions to address their demands.

Sidharth Malik, Vice President and Managing Director, India, Akamai Technologies said

The start-up ecosystem in India, coupled with the government’s initiatives make the Internet accessible to every citizen across the country, is helping India set the stage to enable large numbers of ‘netizens’ to reap the benefits of the Internet. With the rise of digital natives and the increased adoption of smartphones, Internet penetration in India will stretch beyond the large cities, as more services and devices come online. This is also a great opportunity for enterprises to harness the power of the Internet to innovate and scale operations.

Online shopping will account for two-thirds of the total e-Commerce market, edging out travel

According to the report, the overall e-Commerce market in India was valued $17 billion in FY 2016, and by 2020, India will have an estimated 702 million smart phones in use and mobile phones will emerge as the preferred device for shopping, accounting for 70% of total online shopping. The fashion and lifestyle segment will emerge as the largest e-tailing category with a 35% contribution to e-Commerce GMV by 2020, overtaking the consumer electronics segment which dominates the sales of Indian e-Commerce industry at present.

50% of travel transactions to be online by 2020

Travel across India, for social visits, leisure, shopping and holidays is all set to increase and more people will be booking online, taking advantage of competitive pricing offered by online travel agents [OTAs] and aggregators. An increasing amount of user-generated content online [views on social media, reviews on websites, etc.] is driving aspirational travel, tipping the scales in favour of trips that were once only contemplated, never undertaken.

Media and OTT – All moving online, one app at a time

The availability of affordable smartphones and tablets has encouraged the second screen phenomenon. With the rapid adoption of smartphones and next generation networks, content consumption patterns and consumer engagement channels are rapidly evolving. Even in its nascent phase, the video-on-demand [VOD] market is highly competitive in India.

Financial technology – Disrupting the way India pays online

Fintech is disrupting financial services and is likely to have far more widespread impact on society and the Indian economy, both directly and indirectly. The fintech software market within this was pegged at $1.2 billion [13-15%, Source – NASSCOM Fintech Report].

The remaining 87% focus on services, primarily in payments [60% of the market, including ATM/Point of Sale] and core banking services. Overall, according to the report, India’s fintech market is expected to grow 1.7x between 2015 and 2020. While cash-on-delivery may remain the preferred mode of payment for newer users, keep in mind that use of mobile banking and e-wallets is surging.

Conclusion – The future is bright but there is a greater need to collaborate

In times to come, while mobile will be a key access device, larger devices will continue to be important in areas like education and business. Multiple stakeholders will need to work in tandem to bring the next generation of Internet users [rural based, mobile centric, local language focused] online in India.

Further, with digital connectivity, the risk of cyber-crimes also increases. With multitudes of people using e-Commerce and transacting online, there is a huge need for technologies that can prevent data theft. India is witnessing a huge demand for security professionals [technologists and analysts, alike]. In line with these growing demands, security has become one of the key focus areas for NASSCOM Sector Skills Council, working towards creating the right cyber-security skill sets for Indian IT professionals.

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National Association of Software and Services Companies [NASSCOM] launched India’s first Centre of Excellence – Internet of Things [CoE- IoT] at the NASSCOM Startups Warehouse in Bengaluru. The centre was inaugurated by Mr. Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Minister for Law, in the presence of Mr. Priyank Kharge, Minister for Information and Broadcast Technology, Govt. of Karnataka, along with Ms V Manjula, IAS, Principal Secretary, Department of Information Technology, Biotechnology, e-Governance & Science & Technology, Govt. of Karnataka, Mr. R Chandrashekhar, President, NASSCOM among others. The CoE will focus on leveraging IT strengths & creating a new age industry with the support of IoT based ideas.

Ms V Manjula, IAS, Principal Secretary, Department of Information Technology, Biotechnology, e-Governance and Science & Technology, Govt. of Karnataka said

We recognise the scope for growth and development in the IoT space and are very pleased on partnering with NASSCOM and the private sector to launch the CoE in Karnataka. We have always strived to create a conducive ecosystem for IT companies in the state, with this initiative we hope to give start-ups an opportunity to innovate in the field of IoT and take the IT sector into newer and greater heights.

The CoE is a joint initiative between the Department of Electronics and Information Technology [DEITY], Education and Research Network [ERNET] and NASSCOM. The CoE is also supported by Accenture, CISCO, Cyient, EMC, Intel, HCL Technologies, Qualcomm, Tata Consultancy Services, L&T Technology Services, Robert Bosch and VMware as Strategic partners.  Amazon Web Services [AWS], Digital Ocean, IBM, Microsoft have signed up as Infrastructure partner to the initiative.

Dr Ajay Kumar, IAS, Additional Secretary, DeitY said

IoT is one of the high growth potential areas in the IT sector. With the growing number of IoT based SMEs/Startups in the Indian market, it becomes imperative to create an enabling ecosystem to help evolve this space, empowering companies to build technologies that provide global solutions.

Dr Neena Pahuja, Director General, ERNET said

Paradigm shift from IT to IOT, together with smooth shift of data & utilities using different electronic hardware structured with analytics, is going to enable a smart integrated & networked world. Starting from streamlining Airlines operations, Smart Cities to Disaster Management, IoT can play a major role in this connected world. With the growing number of IoT based SME’s/Startups in the Indian market, it becomes imperative to create an enabling ecosystem to help evolve this space, empowering companies to build technologies that provide Indian and Global solutions. We are happy to partner with NASSCOM, which is bringing-in Industry to help democratise innovation, by creating Centre of Excellence [COE] for start-ups in PPP mode.

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The CoE laboratory along with the NASSCOM 10,000 Startups Warehouse has the capacity to incubate up to 40 start ups and can accommodate around 10 emerging companies per shift for prototype/ design and usage of lab facilities. The CoE also provides a separate space for validation, verification and demonstration as well as concept labs for developing IoT solutions for application areas like Agriculture, Automobile, Telecom, Healthcare and Consumer IoT.

Expressing his thoughts on the launch of the CoE, Mr R Chandrashekhar, President, NASSCOM, stated

NASSCOM is pleased on launching the IoT Centre of Excellence, which takes forward our efforts towards establishing India as a global tech hub. This Centre of Excellence has been created to act as a catalyst for developing the IoT SME/Startup ecosystem of the country as well as an accelerator of IoT capabilities providing the concept and scale for industrial and societal needs. The CoE will also function as an enabler of Funding, Accelerating, Mentoring & Enterprise for the key emerging IoT startups who have been selected for incubation, after a rigorous process.

The digital revolution accelerated by intelligent devices along with a booming startup environment has presented the need for a Centre of Excellence with a complete focus on the Internet of Things. With a presence of over 120 IoT focused IT companies and an expected market opportunity of USD 15 billion by 2020, India is set to gain a prominent position in the global IoT market. An increase in the adoption of IoT based technology in areas of home, retail and industrial automation, health & fitness monitoring and connected vehicles as well as the advent and growth of Smart cities, has resulted in a greater need of better solutions that lead to the evolution of a lifestyle dominated by technology. NASSCOM is focusing on systemically expanding the technology ecosystem and the IoT CoE will play the role of collaboratively addressing challenges such as the lack of understanding that leads to low adoption levels and security issues faced by the industry.

Multiple IoT based firms will be selected from over 250 entries to be incubated at the CoE, through a roadshow held across Coimbatore, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Mumbai. The first five companies out of the total entries are Uncanny Vision, LightMetrics, ThingsCloud, SAAR Microsystems and Wireless Controls.

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With a focus on bridging employability gaps within the industry NASSCOM has partnered with Autodesk Inc., a world leader in 3D design technology, with a new standardized course-ware Product Design Engineer- Mechanical, so as to enhance skilling in this field. This course-ware will empower students in India with the required competencies at the entry level within the larger occupation of Product Engineering Design in the Engineering Research & Development [ERD] sub-sector of the industry. This course-ware will help create a skilled talent pool, trained on global standards, with the ability to usher in a design-led future of making things.

To ensure the creation of an academic course that is both relevant and viable, NASSCOM partnered with key industry stakeholders namely-ANSYS, Autodesk, Geometric, Imaginarium, JCB, L&T Technology Services, SQS, Tata Technologies and TCS. Their inputs have significantly enhanced the design of the curriculum and course-ware, which also addresses the need for faculty support, and seeks to achieve this by acquainting trainers with the latest advancements in pedagogy.

Tim Scanlon, Global Engagement Lead, Autodesk Education Experiences (AEX), said

India needs an evolved education ecosystem built on the foundations of design thinking. This will ensure that the skill-sets possessed by the workforce is relevant and in-sync with the changing requirements of the manufacturing sector. Autodesk has many global initiatives aimed at enabling design skills, right at the grass-root – the students, who eventually join the industry and fuel the growth of national economies. The partnership with NASSCOM will help us in empowering design and engineering professionals and students in India and make them ready for the Future of Making.

Pradeep Nair, Managing Director Autodesk India & SAARC, said

The manufacturing sector in India is evolving and making rapid strides towards the future. Students and professionals need to possess the relevant technology skills that can enable them to be industry-ready and capable of driving innovation in product design and engineering. Fusion 360 is a highly advanced design tool that combines industrial and mechanical design, collaboration, and machining in a single package. The course-ware based on Fusion 360 will not only up-skill the students but also enable them to dovetail into the evolving requirements of the manufacturing sector in India. Through our collaboration with NASSCOM and IT-ITeS Sector Skill Council NASSCOM, we aim to contribute in up skilling the huge talent pool in India.

R. Chandrashekhar, President NASSCOM, said

Through this tie-up we hope to provide Indian students an opportunity to upgrade their knowledge in the domain and be at par with global industry standards. NASSCOM is confident that this course will help enhance the skills of professionals in the industry making them market ready.

India is one of the world’s largest population base of employable youth and is poised to become a sought-after destination for those seeking higher value add and specialized services. Per industry figures, the manufacturing industry contributes nearly 15.1% of India’s GDP and its contribution is expected to be around 25-30% by 2025. The sector is expected to reach USD 1 trillion by 2025 in the process creating 90 million jobs. This initiative is a collaborative effort with NASSCOM, Autodesk and other industry members, is of great importance for all stakeholders concerned – the industry, academia, and the students. This initiative is expected to build new employability standards, bearing in mind the changing scenario of talent demand and supply in the industry. 

About Autodesk

Autodesk makes software for people who make things. If you are ever driven a high-performance car, admired a towering skyscraper, used a smartphone, or watched a great film, chances are you’ve experienced what millions of Autodesk customers are doing with our software. Autodesk gives you the power to make anything. For more information visit Autodesk

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With a focus on driving business outcomes and customer experience by way of leveraging analytical services and products, the National Association of Software and Services Companies [NASSCOM] inaugurated the fourth edition of its Big Data & Analytics Summit 2016 in Hyderabad. Growing at 8 times the current levels, the analytics industry is expected to reach USD 16 billion from the current level of USD 2 billion.

Over 600+ analytical firms in India, out of which approximately 400 are start-ups, are positioning India as an emerging hub for analytics solutions for industries across the globe. The big data and analytics industry is witnessing a rapid growth driven by increased demand for cloud-based [SaaS] and predictive analytics solutions by industries such as BFSI, Retail, Telecom and Healthcare.

Exponential growth of the number of devices, paired with the deluge of unstructured data – in the form of social media interactions, video or text – has ensured that. Being able to tap into this data and act on the insights, is a key differentiator between digital attackers and the laggards. The key to the future in leveraging big data technologies lies in the ability to harness its use in addressing complex problems.

This rapid rise of analytics is reflecting in job creation across verticals and functions with skills from analytics, business and technology. With over 90,000 analytics professionals in India across HR, marketing, risk & security, healthcare, and verticals like retail and finance, the industry is witnessing the emergence of specialised roles like data architect,data strategist, data visualization analyst and change manager etc.

Speaking at the occasion, KS Viswanathan, VP, NASSCOM mentioned

India is today amongst the top 10 destination for analytics and our aspiration is to be amongst the top 3 in the world by 2025. NASSCOM is partnering with its members to build a multi-pronged approach that encompasses-skill development, thought leadership, products and platforms to realise this vision.

Artificial Intelligence & Deep learning algorithms have advanced rapidly to enable the development of machines that can now do tasks that require deep expertise and skill. The best companies today are realizing the power of Artificial Intelligence [AI] and investing in utilizing these algorithms in all aspects of their business. Industry will start exploring artificial intelligence and deep learning algorithms for analytics and radically change product delivery to create new markets and engagement models.

BVR Mohan Reddy, Former Chairman, NASSCOM & Founder and Executive Chairman at Cyient, added

Multiple opportunities are emerging across business verticals and are opening up large opportunities for companies in data, infrastructure, software and analytics. Of special importance is emergence of custom visualisation software, development of algorithms for predictive analytics, cloud based services and Machine to Machine Learning. The growth trajectory shows that India will soon emerge as big data and analytics hub of the world.

About NASSCOM

NASSCOM is the premier trade body and the chamber of commerce of the IT-BPM industry in India. NASSCOM is a global trade body with more than 1800 members, which includes both Indian and multinational companies that have a presence in India. NASSCOM’s member and associate member companies are broadly in the business of software development, software services, software products, consulting services, BPM, e-commerce and web services, engineering services and animation and gaming. NASSCOM’s membership base constitutes over 95% of the industry revenues in India and employs about 3.5 million professionals.

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DigitalOcean, the 2nd largest cloud hosting provider in the world, has announced its partnership with NASSCOM 10,000 startups initiative, a program developed by NASSCOM to incubate, fund and assist 10,000 Indian technology startups by 2020. The announcement comes shortly after DigitalOcean appointed Prabhakar Jayakumar as it’s country manager, as the company gets ready to launch its first data-center in Bengaluru this summer. DigitalOcean has joined a select group of sponsors supporting the 10,000 startups initiative.

The main aim of this collaboration is to grow and support the startup ecosystem in India, through this association, DigitalOcean plans to assist startups on both technical and non-technical aspects through one-on-one interactions, workshops, boot camps and mentorship programs. DigitalOcean has created a special cloud credit program as an incentive to the startups associated with the NASSCOM 10K startup initiative. As part of this program, eligible startups can apply up to $10,000 in cloud credits to their DigitalOcean account.

The purpose of the NASSCOM 10K startups initiative is to nurture the budding startups into full-fledged technology dedicated companies, by giving them support via access to startup incubators, accelerators, angel investors, venture capitalists, startup support groups, mentors, and technology corporations. The association has received over 13,800 startup applications, out of which 2,276 were shortlisted and 1350 have been impacted by way of funding, acceleration and mentoring.

Prabhakar Jayakumar, Country Manager, DigitalOcean commented

The technology startup sector in India has exploded in the past few years and our agenda is to fuel this growth and support the innovation landscape in India. We consider ourselves “the startup for startups”. Having been through the process ourselves, we know exactly what the needs are for scaling companies.

This collaboration is a proud moment for us as it gives us an opportunity to enable entrepreneurs in India to create companies and chase their dreams, by lowering the barrier of entry through simplifying the complexities of cloud infrastructure.

Commenting on the partnership, Rajat Tandon, Vice President, NASSCOM said

We are happy to partner with DigitalOcean to build an inclusive ecosystem for start-ups in the country. Today, India is on the precipice of new ideas which need the right guidance and funding to be scalable for the market. I am sure that through this partnership, we will be able to achieve our targets for the sector and help entrepreneurs realize their dreams.

With the rapidly expanding startup ecosystem in India, such collaborations will not only ensure that selected startups have access to mentorship and guidance from relevant industry leaders, but also give them much needed support through DigitalOcean’s cloud credit program, making it easier than ever before for startups and teams of software developers to deploy and scale their applications.

About NASSCOM

NASSCOM is the premier trade body and the chamber of commerce of the IT-BPM industry in India. NASSCOM is a global trade body with more than 1800 members, which include both Indian and multinational companies that have a presence in India. NASSCOM’s member and associate member companies are broadly in the business of software services, software products, consulting services, BPM, e-commerce & web services, engineering services & animation and gaming. NASSCOM’s membership base constitutes over 95% of the industry revenues in India and employs about 3.5 million professionals. For more information, visit NASSCOM

About DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean is a cloud infrastructure provider focused on simplifying web infrastructure for software developers. The company is headquartered in New York City with data-centers throughout the world. For more information, please visit DigitalOcean