What follows is a trend I have noticed from the years of watching the IT crowd in India and their way of work. If you take the vast world of the ‘collaborative internet’ gifted by web 2.0 and analyze the participation/ contribution of the Indian IT crowd we see that they are inherently ‘problem driven’ people. Majority of the posts/comments on tech blogs and forums by them are to address immediate problems that they are facing. This thought is further strengthened by the number of techies out here who actively blog or contribute to forum discussions being very minimalistic.

Being a person who has a techonology blog myself catering to Quality Assurance and Software development principals I’ve noticed that I have a pre-dominantly Indian visitor graph & the number of people who comment about an idea on my blog is next few and far in between. We do not see the value addition in publishing information for the world out there. The behavioural trend at the work place itself is one of ‘constricting the information flow’. Indian techies are yet to wake up to the realization that tribal knowledge is not very helpful.

From the myriad so called ‘tech summits’ I have attended and spoken at in India I’ve noticed that a tech talk is often reduced to a sad sales pitch or adv of how things are at the place they work.  I’ve often had to reject invitations to various seminars and workshops because the so called ‘subject matter expert’ that they have as a speaker does not have any established credentials on the www other than their profile on linkedin and maybe Orkut and they claim he has been doing the said thingie for ‘donkeys years’ (pardon me not the kind of stuff that impresses me).

An amusing statistic would be that if you examine the newspapers in India, the only time the word ‘techie’ is mentioned is in relation to a murder,suicide, divorce or robbery….

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