Thursday, April 23, 2015

Make for India: Learn from China

My Chinese friends always praise that  Indian IT is very good but also ask do you have 'we chat 微信', 微博 Wei Bo' , ren ren 人人,QQ”, like this in India. And the reply,  we have " Facebook , Whatsapp, Skype and Twitter". But these are American social sites, surprised Chinese friends ask again.

Well, though IT in India had progressed a lot we have not built indigenous social sites. We Indians trust American, built software program for a fee and rely on them. Even Koreans have 'kakao talk' for calling. Former  Soviet Union territories uses VK.

In China, every university has it's own presence on we chat and other social sites, even the departments have their own. In India many universities still don't have working websites, presence on social sites are still far away.

Payment services like Alipay  支付宝、 微信钱包 We chat Wallet  is easy and convenient. They are in the process of going global and challenging western payment services like PayPal,  etc.

And we still say, Indian IT is superb. Yes, it is but we work for America. Hope 'Make in India' also begins the era for 'Make for India'.