Dear Editors, press and media community: (160+ members of Goan media marked in Bcc)
Please find below updates on our recent activities and contact us on email or via phone for any clarifications: Vincent – 9765410020 | Yash – 9822475519 | Guru – 9167260039 If you would like to have HD version of any segments from our many videos available now on our YouTube channel pointed out in our press note below then do contact us. Thanks for your great support as always. Regards, GITP ------------ START OF GITP PRESS NOTE 29/Oct/2015 ------------ GITP AND WELL-WISHERS REPRESENTED GOA AT GBF WITHOUT ANY SUPPORT NOR INTEREST FROM GOA GOVERNMENT Recently the Global Business Forum organised by IIT-Bombay was attended by national as well as international investors and was the right platform to showcase Goa as an attractive investment destination. GITP with relentless efforts through its well-wishers among the GBF organizers managed to get a special presentation slot for Goa besides a 80% entry fee discount for all Goans. As part of our 2 week preparations for GBF our core team held a Whatsapp chat conference with the Chief Minister, IPB team and the Director of IT to plan and organize the Goa representation. We proposed an approach as well as key points about Goa’s IT and business potential that could be showcased at GBF. We offered to put together a complete presentation for the government to deliver, yet there was no interest nor response from the government so we prepared a presentation in collaboration with GITIC (Goa IT Innovation Centre) that showcased the IT innovations already happening in Goa. During this process we asked Director of IT, Shilpa Shinde, about her department’s participation plan and contribution towards GBF. However to our utter shock the Director arrogantly refused and left the conversation having not added any value to this conversation till then thereby highlighting her incompetence in matters relevant to the IT industry. Nevertheless we went ahead with our plans and achieved the following: * Proactively reached out to the wider GBF audience to create awareness about Goan IT and innovation to get them to attend our session. See Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1185029581510800&set=gm.891873590861848&type=3> for our invitation card used for this purpose. * GITIC Director, Jervis Pereira, delivered an impactful presentation titled, “Goa – 365 days of Innovation”, to a warm welcome from the global audience at GBF. See YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrjf5bUWR06ZFQmHOhz_yDA> for the session recordings and Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.157524631265014.1073741829.156009271416550&type=3> for the presentation slides. * Connected with stalwarts of the Indian IT industry like Mohandas Pai, Ashank Desai etc. and sought their support for Goan IT. See our Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/goaitpro/> page for related photos. * Obtained video testimonials from prominent personalities in support of Goa’s potential for IT and related industries. See YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrjf5bUWR06ZFQmHOhz_yDA> for these videos. * Connected with Azim Premji Foundation, academic stalwarts and others to seek their support for GITP’s Project GEIT (Goans Empowered with IT) which promotes IT education in our Goan village schools. See our Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/goaitpro/> page for related photos. Apparently due to some protocol issues the Chief Minister, Laxmikant Parsekar, could not attend the GBF himself. However the rest of the state government machinery, especially the IPB (except Tulsidas Pai) and the Department of IT, missing at GBF showed the Goa government in poor light to a global audience. Nevertheless GITP believes GBF is one of the best things to have happened to its cause of a Goan IT industry and is grateful to the Defence Minister, Manohar Parrikar, for bringing GBF to Goa. We hope like IFFI the GBF will become an annual feature in Goa lending the much needed sustained impetus to the Goan IT industry. GITP CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE REPLACEMENT OF CURRENT DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY WITH A COMPETENT, EFFICIENT AND FULL-TIME OFFICER Besides the above GBF incident, GITP has noticed a number of deficiencies in the Goa Department of IT (DOIT) approach on matters crucial to Goa’s IT and ESDM industry dream: * EDF not availed: Central government has setup an Electronics Development Fund (EDF) which aggregates funds from several sources for assisting electronic design, testing and manufacturing firms. Goa DOIT has not yet availed this fund despite our inputs months ago while Goan IT and ESDM start-ups continue to struggle for funding. * No alignment with DEITY: The centre has merged related departments into an unified Dept. of Electronics & Information Technology for better coordination of the technology segment. Goa DOIT has not yet done so despite our inputs months ago. Hence Goa is deprived of the efficiencies and schemes of a unified department. * Inaction on suggestions: GITP has proposed several suggestions in meetings in the past, none of which have been implemented by DOIT. * Mis-management of Goa IT Policy formulation: Right from the poorly articulated and shallow IT policy draft; to the disorganized collation of Goa IT start-up details resulting in just a handful of entries; to disregard for the submitted policy changes/recommendations resulting in the entire exercise being now done all over again, the glaring lack of professional approach by DOIT has visibly undermined the state government’s vision for IT and ESDM. * Goa’s loss of Lava investment: Did the DOIT, and also IPB, invest the required thought and effort to even do bare minimum justice to the Lava proposal? DOIT is a highly strategic department for any state government in the 21st century. The efficiency of governance as well as job creation in a state is determined by the effectiveness of this department. No lethargy, ignorance, incompetence and arrogance can be afforded here. We do not hold any personal grudge against any individual and remain undeterred in our goal of promoting a local sustainable IT industry in Goa. However, our experience as detailed above prompts us to demand immediate replacement of the current Director of IT with a highly competent, efficient and full-time officer to prevent further delays and damage, and to get things moving in the right earnest. GITP HAS SENT THIRD REMINDER TO GOA GOVERNMENT SEEKING REPRESENTATION ON THE GOA IT POLICY ADVISORY PANEL GITP a voluntary, apolitical and registered body of professionals of Goan origin employed in the Indian and the global IT industry has done relatively much more in the last 1 year than the officially designated individuals and bodies of successive Goa governments have done for past many years for a locally sustainable IT industry in Goa. However despite our repeated follow-ups and requests to the Goa government we are yet to be granted a representative seat on the Goa IT Policy advisory panel. We gather from reliable sources that this panel has begun its work and public suggestions are being informally sought all over again. This poses the risk of valid suggestions submitted earlier in June being inadvertently missed out. Hence earlier this week we have resubmitted to the Goa government the detailed revamped version of the IT Policy document (attached here for your reference) we had originally submitted to them on June 14, 2015 based on our national and global experience plus best practices from other Indian states’ IT Policies adapted to the Goan context. GITP awaits Goa government’s decision to grant us representation on the Goa IT Policy panel and will keep you posted on the outcome in the weeks ahead. GITP is confident that its participation in the Goa IT policy formulation process will ensure a very thorough, effective and time-bound policy that will lead to all round economic upliftment of our Goan people. GARTNER SYMPOSIUM/ITXPO 2015 IN GOA (NOV 2-5, 2015) – WILL GOA GOVERNMENT REPEAT ITS GBF ACT HERE? Gartner calls it the “The World's Most Important Gathering of CIOs and Senior IT Executives” and it has been happening every year right under our nose here in Goa. This is the 2nd consecutive year that GITP has been pursuing the Goa government, especially IPB, to pitch Goa as an attractive global investment destination at this event. However except for the typical lip service virtually nothing has been done by the government despite our open offer of full and active support as we have demonstrated at the recent GBF. We have reminded the government and IPB one last time today about it as you can see in our below email. Due to our genuine constraints of being a voluntary group of salaried professionals who have already sacrificed a great amount of our personal resources for our cause, GITP has decided to skip this Gartner conference and looks forward to the Goa government to demonstrate the seriousness of its intent to promote investment into Goa to the free and accessible global audience arriving into our home-state this weekend and available till November 5th. GITP wishes them the very best and still offers its full support remotely in this mission. ------------ END OF GITP PRESS NOTE 29/Oct/2015 ------------ From: Goa IT Professionals [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 29 October 2015 1:39 pm To: 'Atul Pai Kane' <[email protected]>; 'subhash.phaldessai' <[email protected]>; [email protected]; 'Nitin Kunkolienker' <[email protected]>; 'Goa Director DoIT' <[email protected]>; 'Atul Pai Kane' <[email protected]>; 'christopher parakh' <[email protected]>; 'Nitin Kunkolienker' <[email protected]>; 'Srinet Kothwale' <[email protected]>; 'dir-indu goa' <[email protected]>; 'Nana Bandekar' <[email protected]>; 'Tulasida Pai' <[email protected]>; [email protected] Cc: 'cm goa' <[email protected]>; 'cmo goa' <[email protected]>; 'Laxmikant Parsekar' <[email protected]> Subject: RE: Gartner Conference 2nd-5th Nov: Opportunity to showcase Goa Importance: High Dear Atul and team, Just a gentle reminder here about the Gartner CIO conference happening in Goa this weekend as per our earlier mails below. Trust the needful has been done on your side to officially represent Goa and its IT/ESDM potential at this prominent global platform. As you have seen on the ground, in local press and in social media ( <https://www.facebook.com/groups/Goaitp/> Facebook, <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrjf5bUWR06ZFQmHOhz_yDA> YouTube) we at GITP single-handedly represented Goa IT and Innovation at the recent Global Business Forum without any support, inputs nor presence (except for Tulsidas Pai) from the Goa government machinery despite our persistent follow-ups and our offer of full support to do the needful. And our effort has had an indisputable positive impact for the Goan IT start-ups as well as the overall image of Goa. GITP has decided to skip the upcoming Gartner CIO conference and looks forward to you to do the needful as you deem fit. All the best! Regards, GITP From: Goa IT Professionals [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 28 September 2015 9:59 am To: Atul Pai Kane <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Cc: subhash.phaldessai <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >; [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ; Nitin Kunkolienker <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >; Goa Director DoIT <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >; Atul Pai Kane <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >; christopher parakh <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >; Nitin Kunkolienker <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >; Srinet Kothwale <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >; dir-indu goa <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >; Nana Bandekar <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >; cmo goa <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >; Tulasida Pai <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >; Laxmikant Parsekar <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >; [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ; cm goa <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Gartner Conference 2nd-5th Nov: Opportunity to showcase Goa Dear Atul, Here is the link that gives the contact details for Exhibitors: http://www.gartner.com/events/apac/goa-symposium#!exhibiting-opportunities-sym-india Please get in touch with them to arrange for a slot and keep us posted. Also, let us know if any help is needed in putting together the content for the event including any brainstorming that may be needed. Let's work together as a team to capitalise on this opportunity. Regards, GITP On Sep 27, 2015 7:04 PM, "Atul Pai Kane" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Dear GITP, Was expecting the officials to respond to you. Nitin and me have spoken last evening and we will raise the matter with the Hon Chief Minister in the week starting 28th Sept. We would appreciate if you could provide us with any link possible to get a time slot for Goa to pitch its case to the attending CIO's. For your information, the list of email addressee's have been pruned to direct it to those who are now involved in the IPB or connected with the Investment in Goa pitch. Best, Atul Pai Kane Chairman Power Engineering (India) Pvt Ltd, Cell: 09326110770, 09822101060 _____ From: "Goa IT Professionals" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > To: "Laxmikant Parsekar" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >, "christopher parakh" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >, "cm goa" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >, "cmo goa" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >, "Goa Director DoIT" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >, "dir-indu goa" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >, "geetika goyal" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >, [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> , [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> , "parimal rai" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >, "Faizi Hashmi" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >, "KESHAV CHANDRA" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >, "Parimal Rai" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >, "Srinet Kothwale" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >, "subhash.phaldessai" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >, "Nitin Kunkolienker" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >, "Nitin Kunkolienker" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >, "Tulasidas Pai" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >, "Giriraj Pai Vernekar" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >, [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> , "Atul Pai Kane" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >, "Atul Pai Kane" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >, "Kirit Maganlal" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >, "Martin Ghosh" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >, "Nana Bandekar" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Cc: "Goa IT Professionals" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2015 3:49:25 PM Subject: Re: Gartner Conference 2nd-5th Nov: Opportunity to showcase Goa Respected Chief Minister, Members of Goa IPB, Dept of IT and other Goa government leaders: (160+ members of Goan media marked in Bcc) It is nearly 3 months since we alerted you about this Gartner global CIO conference happening in Goa barely a month from now. We had even offered you our full hands-on support to represent the cause of IT industry in Goa at this event. However we note with disappointment no response received from your side on this matter till date. Please note that CIOs wield significant influence in corporate boardrooms of the many companies they would represent at this event and by not presenting the Goa IT story here you are denying your government a great opportunity on your home turf to make a strong case for Goa as a promising IT destination while other state governments (e.g. Maharashtra, AP, Chhattisgarh etc.) are proactively chasing such opportunities all over the world. Unfortunately the vibrant yet nascent Goan IT startup community would also be denied a deserving opportunity for representation as well as potential investments. Nevertheless it is still not too late and we could still pull it together if you can make a quick decision and confirm your interest in the next 2 days. In the absence of your confirmation by 29Sep we at GITP will ourselves explore such representation possibilities with the organizers of this event and will do the needful in collaboration with other well-wishers of our cause of a locally sustainable IT industry in Goa. We look forward to your prompt and positive response on this matter. Thank you. -- Regards, Goa IT Professionals www.goaitpro.org <http://www.goaitpro.org/> On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 8:36 PM, Goa IT Professionals <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: BCC: Members of IPB, Govt. officials, Goan media(178+ recipients), Dear all, While we pursue our dream of putting Goa on the IT map of the world, a golden opportunity has landed at our door steps. Gartner, world's leading IT advisory company, will bring top CIOs and executives of the IT world to Goa for a 4-day conference on Digital business. <http://www.gartner.com/events/apac/goa-symposium> http://www.gartner.com/events/apac/goa-symposium The event is scheduled for 2nd-5th Nov and is expected to be attended by representatives spanning multiple industries that apply IT as a foundation of their business. Gartner has been conducting this event in Goa year after year. It is imperative that Goa treats this as an opportunity to re-brand its image as a destination where business can be done with pleasure. The government can create an extension of this event such as a presentation about Goa after the scheduled agenda followed by a social interaction with the delegates. The Investment Policy and IT Policy may be delivered to the participants for consideration. Today, every state of India, is leaving no stone un-turned in participating in the vision called Make In India. As a responsible organisation, like last year, we are informing all relevant stakeholders well in advance this year too. Let us all put our act together. We pledge to extend any necessary help in projecting Goa before the world. -- Regards, Goa IT Professionals <http://www.goaitpro.org/> www.goaitpro.org -- Regards, Goa IT Professionals <http://www.goaitpro.org/> www.goaitpro.org
