India’s SW exports to Italy to reach $500 mn by 2008

Nasscom, the apex industry association of IT software and service companies

in India has projected that India’s software exports to Italy can reach $0.5

billion by 2008.

Indian software and service exports to Italy have increased from $21 million

in 2000-01 to $28 million in the year 2001-02. Nasscom has, for the first time,

led an exhibitor delegation to SMAU 2002, Italy’s premier and world’s second

largest ICT exhibition to boost IT trade between India and Italy. Pramod Mahajan,

Union Minister for Communication, Information Technology and Parliamentary

Affairs, Government of India used this platform to launch the ‘Simputer’,

India’s indigenously developed low-cost handheld PC, for the European market

at the India Pavilion at SMAU 2002.

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