The whole world is luring Information and Communication Technology (ICT) graduates like never before. The US categorizes ICT graduates as a special category, and so do other major economies, such as, the UK, Ireland, the European Union, Australia, New Zealand, etc. The world needs many more ICT graduates in order to keep technology-led shows running smoothly.
Moreover, all the above mentioned economies have special provisions to retain ICT professionals. Amongst them, the US, the UK, and the European Union are desperately looking out for ICT professionals.
The reason for their desperateness is simple. A majority of people in these economies don’t “fall” for complex technological studies. They rather go for non-technological fields of study. You can get the feel of this in the statements of George Bush and Bill Gates, when they hopelessly advised US students to hone their Mathematics and Science skills, otherwise Asians would be taking their jobs away.
As these economies have enough money to invest in latest-and-complex Information and Communication Technologies, they don’t have enough man-power to build and operate the ICT infrastructure.
On the other hand, the third-world countries have a lot many ICT professionals, but they don’t have enough money to afford high-end ICT infrastructure. One of the fallouts of this situation is that these third-world countries are losing their highly skilled man-power to rich economies, moving them backward by ages.
Thankfully, the situation is improving in India and China though very slowly. India now allows up to 74 percent Foreign Direct Investment in its ICT. That’s how Vodafone has gotten into India, recently.
We are lazy. Still, I hope that we are going to witness some more positive changes in our country, soon.
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