The Proactive Chinese!
China walks out of encryption meet! Protesting that the current standards underhandedly prevents the use of their home grown encryption algorithm, called WAPI. That just left me thinking on our Indian scenario. Ofcourse I know that it will be a futile exercise to compare China with India, now that I know that there cannot be any comparison for the next 100 years atleast!
Coming to the Indian side of the scene. I never think we would have even bothered to send a representative into this meeting. I am also sure I have never heard India walking out of any meet. Nor have i heard any technology for mass social action being used and propagated in India. Nor have I seen any politician defending our nations technology. Or in the least, allay some fears on outsourcing.
The explanation for this is simple and logical. While the chinese see technology as a social catalyst. They are proactive in the case of Techonolgy as a social development catalyst. This is an important step towards industrial development.
When will we learn!
well…you are very right. The way i see…chinese are emulating the japanese…the sony story. In fact the other day, i read a good article about south korean companies making a mark in indian market like LG, Hyundai.
Comment by Amar — June 14, 2006 @ 11:54 pm
Yeah that is the whole point. Unfortunately a vastly illiterate democracy results in a massively underperforming economy!
Comment by laks — June 15, 2006 @ 10:30 pm