Co-founder and CEO at itihaasa Research and Digital
Dayasindhu is co-founder and CEO of itihaasa Research and Digital. itihaasa has researched and chronicled the history of Indian IT over the past six decades. It has captured the important milestones in the evolution of Indian IT through the recollections of leaders who have shaped its history. History of Indian IT is a digital museum app, free to download on App and Play stores. itihaasa also studies contemporary topics in Indian IT.
Dayasindhu's research interests are industry evolution and clusters, competitiveness, innovation, and leadership focused on the IT and high tech industry in India. His papers are cited by researchers in all permanently inhabited continents of the world. He holds two United States patents. Dayasindhu is an alumnus of IIM Bangalore and IIT Madras.
India needs to build a portfolio of research projects—both applied and fundamental research—that are a collaboration between universities, labs and industry. Policy makers are starting to realise the importance of enabling this
N Dayasindhu
Co-founder and CEO, itihaasa Research and Digital
To become 'atmanirbhar' and globally competitive in electronics, it is imperative that India nurtures a domestic electronics industry. While government policies are becoming conducive, there are fundamental capability issues that need to be resolved
N Dayasindhu
Co-founder and CEO, itihaasa Research and Digital
Indian technology has evolved in the context of the country’s politics. A review of ‘Midnight’s Machines: A Political History of Technology in India’
N Dayasindhu
Co-founder and CEO, itihaasa Research and Digital
AI systems may be making important decisions that will fundamentally affect the lives of Indians. For AI to be truly transformative though, its ethical biases need to be rooted out
N Dayasindhu
Co-founder and CEO, itihaasa Research and Digital
Grand challenges that bring together government, universities and industry, can solve near future problems using technologies innovatively
N Dayasindhu
Co-founder and CEO, itihaasa Research and Digital
Isro’s achievements in earth observation are one outcome of this culture of working without silos
N Dayasindhu
Co-founder and CEO, itihaasa Research and Digital
The dawn of IT in Indian banking from the 1950s to the 1980s teaches important lessons that are valid in today’s context
N Dayasindhu
Co-founder and CEO, itihaasa Research and Digital
A clutch of global tech companies are demonstrating how designing products specifically for India can help crack the India market—and make innovative products for the world
N Dayasindhu
Co-founder and CEO, itihaasa Research and Digital
The Simputer showed that India can design an innovative tech product. What holds it back? Its capability in hardware manufacturing and very little experience in marketing a new category of devices.
N Dayasindhu
Co-founder and CEO, itihaasa Research and Digital
