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"PANAJI: The Goa IT Professionals (GITP) association has written to chief minister Laxmikant Parsekar and defence minister Manohar Parrikar, besides several industrialists on the investment promotion board to seriously consider the proposal put forth by Lava International to setup a 1,200-1,500 crore manufacturing plant in Goa. "Goa IT Professionals strongly urge the Goa government to accept the proposal and clear the way for a sustainable knowledge-based industry in the state, where Goans can earn respectable livelihood," the group has said in an email that has also been sent to assembly speaker Rajendra Arlekar. "

PANAJI: GWave - the internet service, which is a value addition to the Goa government's public-private-partnership GBBN ( Goa Broad Band Network) project - seems to be getting popular with the public. Launched in 2012, when the service had around 350 accounts (mostly corporate clients), the service today has around 3,000 accounts, including hotels and homes.

PANAJI: Scarcity of employment opportunities has often prompted Goans to leave the state in search of better opportunities. Bucking this gloomy brain drain are Prajyot Mainkar, Mangirish Salelkar and Nigel Quadros who put Goa on the global technology map from their sunny home, which anybody would agree, is not known to feature very high on the information technology map.

PANAJI: The next 'in' feature for your smart phone might very well be gesture-recognition and it is a young Goan who is behind the innovation. The creation is set to make touchscreen technology passe and would allow users to interact with their devices through thin air.

Dressed in a yellow T-shirt and blue jeans, the lanky Pranav Pai Vernekar could easily pass off as a college student, and one can barely believe that this recent graduate from the Goa College of Engineering (Engico) and then the Goa Institute of Management is the owner of a company that is slowly but steadily imbibing a culture of robotics in children, as young as nine years of age, in the state

PANAJI: L&A Tech, a Verna-based IT startup, has been acquired by a German IT company for 1 million euros, the first such acquisition for any Goan startup. The transfer of technology process is still under way and the promoters of L&A Tech have been offered the choice to come onboard the German company or opt out, founder Lucio Mesquita said.

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Panaji: In a strong indicator of Goa's strength in the information technology sector, web and product development startup, DCCPER (pronounced deeper), is seriously deliberating an expansion into the Central American and Scandinavian region in the near future.

"PANAJI: Giving a boost to Goa's efforts to attract industries, the National University of Singapore has found that the state scores higher than India's average when it comes to productivity, quality of life and connectivity. The results are part of a survey of macro indicators conducted by the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy of the National University of Singapore across 35 states and Union territories. "

"Panaji: The lack of political will and competence among the government bureaucracy is preventing the state from benefiting from a comprehensive and well-rounded IT policy, Goa IT Professionals (GITP) said while launching the Goa skills registry portal. "

"Panaji: Rather than wait for the state government to take the lead, Goa IT Professionals (GITP) decided to go ahead and help rebrand Goa from being 365 days on a holiday to 365 days of innovation. Taking advantage of the IIT Bombay Alumni Association's Global Business Forum 2015, Goa IT Professionals (GITP) made a fresh attempt to showcase the talent and potential Goa had as an IT and knowledge hub."