India is a major market for Microsoft and other technology companies. India's southern city of Hyderabad, where Nadella grew up, is home to Microsoft's biggest research and development centre outside of the United States.
Facial recognition technology has opened up a massive surveillance market in India which still lacks a legal framework to protect personal privacy.
The advent of new rules for social media applications - like Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp - could spell the end for privacy in the Indian internet space. Despite push back from major internet companies, the Indian government is all set to go ahead with the new regulations. The rules are a bid to quell the spread of fake news and trace anti-social elements in the Indian internet ecosystem faster.
Accenture senior MD Marc Carrel-Billiard says that organisations should focus on creating personalised experiences for consumers as they turn digital, which would require them to collect a lot of user data.
Listing out a few characteristics that would make future technology usage and adoption in India different from developed economies, N Chandrasekaran said technology would have to be leveraged here firstly to create markets, unlike in other markets where technology was making existing markets more efficient.
The industry body said the sector added 2,05,000 jobs in the ongoing fiscal year, up from the 1,85,000 jobs it added in FY19. The sector is still ‘cautiously optimistic’ about the next financial year starting April, officials said.
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