Emerging Technologies and the Indian It Sector

This book examines the implementation of emerging technology projects in the service-based Indian IT sector. The title shows how emerging technologies impact IT-enabled Services (ITeS) organizations and examines the mobility prospects for engineers and students looking to enter the Indian IT sector. Indian IT, dominated by organizations offering ITeS, provides services to clients across the world. Fueling this sector’s growth are engineering graduates. Emerging technologies, such as AI, Big Data, Cloud, and Blockchain, have brought the IT and engineering education sectors to a crossroads with global implications. The IT sector is facing growing demands for new technology solutions from its clients, and it is engineering students who are expected to upskill in order to build these solutions. The volume provides a rare, bottom-up look at the intersection of technology, education and organizational structure, based on an ethnographic study.

Emerging Technologies and the Indian IT Sector will be a helpful and unique resource for managers in ITeS grappling with emerging technologies, researchers looking at how emerging technologies impact organizations and for those developing innovative IT courses in higher education. Readers interested in the global structure of IT education and industry will also find a fresh, ethnographically-informed take on these issues.

Vinay Reddy Venumuddala completed his PhD from Public Policy area, at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB). His research interests lie at the intersection of Information Systems, Public Policy, and Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Presently, he is working as a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for Internet of Ethical Things, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore.

Rajalaxmi Kamath is an Associate Professor at the Center for Public Policy at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB). Her research is around issues facing the development of the Indian economy, post 2000 - microfinance and changing work conditions, with a very specific field oriented, grounds-up approach to understanding them.