Last week saw growing concern with the anti-outsourcing stance taken by the US. The latest being a couple of "new" statements by Obama + Ohio's blanket ban on outsourcing state government projects ...
What does India do ?
- Obviously the first option would be to make the appropriate noises at the right levels (see the call upon PM to make a statement etc)
- Next, we could petition the WTO / Trade agreement etc.
What surprises me is that there seems to be no voice at all at the Indian E-Government spend level ?
India's spend on E-Governance / IT for infrastructure will probably far outstrip the income for specific US states (put together). Would it be a good idea just to start saying a corresponding "NO" to the Microsofts, the HPs, the IBMs and the Oracle's ?
I'm not sure if we know enough to state if these will help / hurt us locally, given that IBM is probably the biggest IT employer in India today with possibly more people than TCS ?
Let us face it, the best way to tackle a commercial decision is to respond in the same space.
Do we not hear that China & India constitute the biggest markets for the world ?
Do we also not see China exercising a lot more "independence" in their decision process ?
Are we going to just a high level sabre rattling with things like Blackberry (Canadian though), Skype (US now - no longer European ?) etc ?
Who should take a lead ?
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