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India adopted right policies on IT: US -- PTI

The United States has lauded India's achievement's in information technology and said the country -- along with Taiwan, South Korea and Ireland -- has adopted right policies to become an IT powerhouse.

It is no accident that over the years the Indian workforce has become as sophisticated in software development as its counterparts across the world, Derek Leebaert, a US government consultant on IT, told a gathering of Senegalese academics, business executives and government officials at the US embassy in Dakar.

He said there were three main reasons for these countries' success -- tax incentives to investors, strong government commitment to IT and drive by offshore corporations to develop sophisticated technology skills in their workers.

Praising the Indian government for its policy of offering inducements to foreign companies if they send increasingly sophisticated jobs to Indian IT companies, Leebaert, who has just completed an assignment in India, said US companies were forging ties with Indian technology companies on sophisticated projects.

Developing countries, Leebaert said, "can jump across what used to be long phases of industrial development to become extremely competitive with the world leaders in the core industrial sector of communications technology".

PTI

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