Being an export promotion body for software, how does IndiaSoft fit into your sphere of activity?
The event would add value and expand our activities. If we want our software exports to touch $50 billion by 2008, such events are necessary. We intend to make IndiaSoft, which is in its second year now, an annual event. We are also taking it across the globe by organising smaller IndiaSoft events in key software markets. As part of the effort, we have already organised such events in Amsterdam and Tokyo. We are also going to take IndiaSoft to Hanover and London. What would be the focus of IndiaSoft 2002? We have to be more focused in terms of visitor profiles. This year, we are organising a Hosted Buyer Programme for Latin American and Sub-Saharan countries in close consultation with the external affairs and commerce ministries. The purpose is to get qualified buyers from these regions expose them to Indian companies. Our missions abroad would identify top 10 buyers in these countries and we would take care of all their expenses to visit IndiaSoft. The delegates from the Sub-Saharan c
