More Vim from Hyderabad: Scaling Innovation and Lessons from India’s Tech Revolution
India is home to arguably the biggest per capita number of competent cost-effective software engineers and techies. In April 2005, I visited India for the very first time thanks to my involvement with the World Summit Awards (WSA) . For the 2024 cycle, in an unprecedented showing, 3 of the 40 winners globally were from Ghana. They were the Achieve Investment App by Petra, Chango by IT Consortium and Khaya AI —by the Ghana NLP Project. I leveraged this visit to confirm what I knew before, learn more about India, network with folks, etc. A lot of us have heard about Bangalore , being the main IT city in a country that houses the most techies worldwide, amongst its population of 1 billion. While at MIT , I learnt about the multiple India Institute of Technology (IIT) institutions. They are amongst the most competitive academic environments in the world. I would not call you an idiot if you have not watched the 3 Idiots movie, but if you have not, go and watch it right away! The mov...
