Chasing Tech Sovereignty: Can India Build Its Own Tech Empire?

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to those who really dissatisfied with their current job, just flip the seat be your own boss, if you really have talent, no one can stop you. at same time we all should always look at gig workers how hard they are working, vegetable sellers, kirana shop owner & factory workers etc. etc. all are working hard ... if you found any one of above is not working and still enjoy great life than his father/mother was worked hard and handover him/her good fortune ...
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Are we even in the same country? if you try to run a business you will know the corruption and rot this country. Bribes to be given at every level to for even the simplest permits and approvals. You know why india is still in the gutter? Because most Indians would pull each other down rather than rise as one. You have office politics and managers who think abusing the people below them and overworking them will lead to better results. Gig workers work hard because there is no other alternative for them, they race down the road with no care for the other people on the road or even their own safety just because someone decided they need 10 mins delivery rather than go to their nearby kirana/supermarket. They are paid a pittance after the fuel and repairs for the bike.
 
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Renegade said:
When you don't want full scale confrontation and still want to deal some damage, electronic warfare is a safer bet.
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How to assess that damage?

Nobody is revealing the extent. Only that so and so is responsible for this or that latest intrusion.

In some rare instances more comes out when it serves the purpose.

Take the 2016 US elections.

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To me this is a plausible response for earlier US interference in Ukraine and earlier in Moscow when Putin announced he was standing for President.

Renegade said:
Like here itself, Israel used Stuxnet virus to sabotage the nuclear centrifuges by just making them spin a little faster. No wars, no escalations, no mass scale deaths, 20% damage dealt. Death (bleed) by a thousand cuts. It stalls your progress.
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That's the best they could hope for back in 2010. Now the only option is a kinetic one in this particular scenario. All it takes is a green light from Washington.
 
I have watched videos of advanced battery companies that are making batteries that charge at 4x the speed of the new mahindra EVs with BYD blade.
Or videos of various othet cutting edge technologies and there are always Indians working there, who are on a visa. I know that they are not born there because of their accent in the video.

The brain drain that is happening in India is staggering.

You do find chinese students also working in such companies but at some point they return to China and pass on the knowledge/IP that is in their brain to chinese companies.

Where as Indians would mostly never return, some of the Indians who work in advanced aerospace companies in the US, would rather sell that tech to china than give to India.

Many of Tesla, SpaceX engineers are Indians. Elon and Trump want to continue the US policy of brain drain.

Chinese companies where lagging behind in automobile sector and electronics but they hired foreign talent to get the technical know and now have become a peer rival to western advanced technology.

China is currently ahead of the US in AI, EV, Drones, batteries and many more.

The billioneres in India are also to blame, they could have bought many western start up companies that went bankrupt but they would rather spend on lavish weddings and buildings.

While people like Elon used to sleep on the Tesla/spaceX floor. Even the current living space or cabin of Elon in spaceX facility is really small pre fabricated structure, that you see is used by security guards in India.
 
bssunilreddy said:

In the Age of Digital Empires, India Must Chase Tech Sovereignty​

Pagers turn into bombs. Chips shatter free-market dogmas. As tech becomes the new front of geopolitical conflict, India must strive to become a product nation

Source: https://www.outlookbusiness.com/mag...tal-empires-india-must-chase-tech-sovereignty
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Opportunity Lost​

India wasn’t like this always. In the 1970s and 1980s, when the groundwork of much of the current technology was being laid, Indian companies were making their own tech products. Hindustan Computers (HCL) and Infosys were born. Wipro and the Tata group switched to making electronics.

Then, in the 1990s, India opened its markets to the world. Soon after, it joined the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and then signed its Information Technology Agreement (ITA–1). The signing of this agreement meant that from 2005 all information technology (IT) product imports to the country could happen zero-duty.

“Till that time India was designing, making its own products in electronics. There were at least 100 TV brands. Many computer brands. A lot of the smaller companies vanished after that,” says Ajay Chowdhry, one of the founders of HCL and its former chief executive.

Countries like China and Brazil did not sign the ITA–1 at the time. As a result, their nascent technology industry found an opportunity to mature. China signed the agreement only after its technology industry had evolved. Between 2000 and 2011, China raised its global share of the IT products market from 2% to 14%. Meanwhile, unable to compete in the global market, India started building its hardware infrastructure on foreign parts, mostly Chinese.
 
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