Next ICT wave will optimise life-styles: Padma Warrior

BANGALORE: The next wave of ICT (information technology, communication and telecom) would help optimise lifestyles and provide virtual health care and education to the masses like never before, said Padmasree Warrior, Chief Technology Officer of Cisco Systems.

She said ICT played the role of connecting people and providing information, in the first phase of the internet in the last 10-15 years.

"....the next generation....the future of ICT, you can see a strong role for ICT into how we can optimise life-styles, how we can improve healthcare...how we can provide education to rural parts of the world", Warrior said.

Speaking at the inauguration of BangaloreIT.Biz 2009, Karnataka's annual premier ICT event here, she said broadband would be one of the key elements required to extend ICT benefits to the next one billion people.

"...that would enable us to provide many different solutions including virtual health, virtual education...many of the things we have not been able to do uptill now".

Warrior said the vision for India should not be confined to making the country a world leader in IT outsourcing but it should be a land of new, innovative solutions - innovations coming out of India not just to serve India but for rest of the world.