Veteran Delhi-based Indian technology journalist and author Dinesh Sharma, has won the Society for the History of Technology's Computer History Museum Book Prize for his book, The Outsourcer: The Story of India's IT. The prize given by the US-based Society's Special Interest Group for Computers, Information, and Society (SIGCIS) for an outstanding book in the history of computing, was presented to Sharma recently in Singapore.
The book published by MIT Press (US) at $29.95, is an abridged and updated version, of a book, 'The Long Revolution' written by Sharma 7 years ago. It is available in India from Amazon and other online sellers for around Rs 1,400 and is arguably the most complete account in print of the rise of the Indian infotech industry. It traces the slow growth of Brand India in IT, from a place for foreign companies to base their software development teams, to the world's leading destination for software and services outsourcing. It weaves a fascinating story of how desi tech companies like TCS, Wipro and Infosys, took on global giants, even as these same IT MNCs made India their biggest development base. A fascinating saga of 25 years of Indian innovation.
-IndiaTechOnline
