Elections 2019: Why no political party can disrupt tech sector
16 April 2019 1:02 PM GMT
As Bengaluru goes to the hustings this week, its residents share a sense of cautious optimism.Bengaluru?s residents may be tech-savvy and vocal on social media but they are far from being armchair activists
- From civic and municipal issues, corruption and traffic to subjects such as Aadhaar, privacy and individual data leaks, there's little that citizens of India's Silicon Valley do not discuss, debate, and plan to disrupt on social media.
- On the surface, it's life as usual for most of those who work in Electronic City, which houses about 200 IT and IT-enabled services companies, including the main campuses of companies such as Infosys, Wipro, TCS, HCL, and Tech Mahindra, as well as bio-tech major Biocon.
- Arvind Tiwary, founder of SangEnnovate and co-chair of IoTNext organized by The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), Bengaluru, says startups, co-working spaces, venture capital and angel networks, the city's STEM education, and the Karnataka government's initiatives are converging.
- "Notable among them is the setting up of the first incubation warehouse in 2013 that was called Nasscom 10k warehouse for startups," says Gupta.
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