Date:26/08/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/08/26/stories/2006082602730700.htm

Business

InfoVision 2006 in Bangalore next month

Special Correspondent

Bangalore: The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) promoted InfoVision 2006, the second "knowledge summit" will be held here on September 28 and 29.

S. Sadagopan, director, International Institute of Information Technology-Bangalore, and programme co-chair, told presspersons on Thursday that "in our evolution as a knowledge society we need to shift focus from just information to knowledge, convert data to information and to knowledge. Not technology but content is beginning to dominate and an example is Google. InfoVision being held for the second year is a move in this direction."

Founder-chairman, MindTree Consulting, Ashok Sota said, "eighty-five per cent of the capital of information technology industry is in the form on intangible assets like intellectual capital. "