October 20, 2008

Government and Information Technology

If you get to the website of one of the premier organizations that administers around 1000 schools in India and that comes directly under the Union Home Ministry, you can view the salary of every single employee with all the breakdown details !!! They have a spreadsheet for each of the member schools in the network and all such spreadsheets put together list the salary structure of all of their 45,000 odd employees in detail. So much for privacy etc. And this from the government that is responsible for enacting IT privacy / security laws !!!

October 14, 2008

ISBian among Asia’s Top Entrepreneurs

Vivek Pahwa of my batch (Co2006) at the ISB, who also was my study group mate during the core terms, features in Businessweek’s list of Asia’s top 20 entrepreneurs. It’s amazing to know the quality of people I interacted with during my stay at the ISB.

List of Entrepreneurs: http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/10/1008_asia_young_entrepreneurs/22.htm
About Vivek: http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/10/1008_asia_young_entrepreneurs/18.htm

Courtesy: Manu