Indian Institutes have always had great students and professors and the IIT’s and IIM’s of this country have made a name for themselves in the world. But if there is one thing that Indian institutes have lacked is the research that is carried out in the western institutes like Stanford and Harvard especially in the technology field.
To plug this area of concern and to initiate innovation within Indian campuses Yahoo India research and development has tied up with Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB) to provide a cluster of servers running Yahoo’s open source Hadoop software, and web data for research to the students.
Such initiatives are important for innovation at the grass root level. It was this very infrastructure that was provided at stanford that lead to the creation of the google’s of this world. I believe more such initiatives should be taken at IIT’s and BITS and other such institutes across India for more innovation to come through in the arena of tech apps.
