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| Saurabh Srivastava of Xansa and
Pradeep Gupta of CyberMediaThe two faces of Knowledge and Entrepreneurship |
Hollywood has Oscars, Bollywood has Filmfare, and the music world has
Grammies the Indian IT industry has the Dataquest Awards for the last fifteen
years and 2007 was no exception. The most coveted awards of Indian tech
incidentally coincided with the silver jubilee of Dataquestall the more reason
for celebration as the entire whos who of the Indian IT industry descended down
on the function organized in Delhi.
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| Ajai K Chowdhry of HCL
Infosystems receiving the Dataquest IT Person of the Year Award from Nandan
Nilekani of Infosys |
HCL Infosystems CEO and chairman Ajai Chowdhry was conferred the Dataquest
IT Person of the Year Award for 2007 at the glittering ceremony. The annual
Dataquest Awards recognizes corporate and individual achievements and is the
most sought after event that brings together the big names of the Indian IT
industry.
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| Mohandas Pai of Infosys
receiving the Dataquest IT Lifetime Achievement Award on behalf of NR
Narayana Murthy from Pradeep Gupta of CyberMedia |
The highlights of the evening included a keynote address by Sir Terence
Matthews, an innovative skit on entrepreneurship, knowledge dissemination
between Saurabh Srivastava and Pradeep Gupta and the Dataquest Top 20 Corporate
Awards and the Individual Achievement Awards.
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| VS Shivarudraiah, Project
Officer for Bhoomi receiving the Dataquest Path Breaker Award from Shyam
Malhotra of CyberMedia |
Chowdhry was honored for passionately focusing on the Indian domestic market
and believing in the potential of computer hardware manufacturing in India. He
had also pioneered in creating the home-user market for computers and was also
the first to recognize the user-side of convergence.
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| NS Bindra of Ingram Micro
receiving the Top Distributor Award from Revathi Kasturi, Former MD of
Novell West Asia |
While the Pathbreaker Award was conferred to the Bhoomi project of the
Karnataka government, this years Lifetime Achievement Award was conferred to
NR Narayana Murthy for successfully building a global company from India that
not only made India the epicenter of all software action, but completely changed
the rules of global IT services.
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| Sir Terence Matthews, Chairman
of Wesley Clover delivering the keynote address |
For Bhoomi, an initiative by the Karnataka government for digitizing land
records across the state, the recognition came for touching the lives and
empowering 6.7 mn farmers and other landowners across the southern state. Page(s) 1 2
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