Blaise Fernandes, is a Board Member at Gateway House and President and CEO of the Indian Music Industry (IMI), has spent over three decades of his career in the media and entertainment sector. The trust he is now associated with looks after the business interests of the recorded music industry. He is on the IPR Committee of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and CII’s Monitoring and Evaluation Committee. He was CEO of Gateway House: Indian Council on Foreign Relations for four years, and prior to that Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs, at Edelweiss Finance.
Over the last five years, China has quietly created a significant place for itself in India – in the technology domain. While India has refused to sign on to China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), this report shows India's positioning in the virtual BRI to be strategically invaluable for China. Nearly $4 billion in venture investments in start-ups, the online ecosystem and apps have been made by Chinese entities. This is just the beginning; there is more to come.
Chinese investments in India’s soft power sectors, such as smartphones and apps, glitter like a diamond necklace around India. Here is anecdotal evidence of their reach and capacity to harvest more data than necessary, with recommendations for their regulation
India’s traditions are finally getting their due – with a Geographical Indication tag. This opens up a world of soft power for India. The first GI tag was given to Darjeeling tea. Now, after over a decade, the first ever GI store has opened at Goa’s airport. One of the Goan products on sale is feni, a popular local brew, which, with its new GI tag, can make a global splash
The recent crisis at Infosys suggests that corporate governance in India’s IT sector has been slipping. Gateway House talks to T.V. Mohandas Pai, former CFO of the company, about what the Indian IT industry and the government can do to raise global competitiveness and remain recognised as centers of innovation
