India approaches the Caribbean as an ally in the South
Santo Domingo. The Ambassador of India in the Dominican Republic, Deepak Bhojwani, affirmed that his country approaches the Caribbean and Latin America so that India is perceived as a strategic ally in the South.
During a panel in the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC), in the framework of the 2011 Intecnology project exhibition, Bhojwani explained that his country conducts periodic consultations and dialogues with CARICOM, the Central American Integration System and the Dominican Republic (SICA-DR), the Andean Community and the Group Rio, in addition to developing an agenda of bilateral visits and agreements in the Focus LAC Program (Focus Latin America), from 1997. Intecnología opens this Wednesday 23 with India as a guest country.
From 2000 India has an annual growth greater than 8%, with a GDP of US $ 1.37 billion. 16 has embassies in Latin America and the Caribbean, with Cuba as the reference for relations with the Dominican Republic.
Emerging countries are changing the rules of trade, relations and coexistence worldwide, said the ambassador. "India plans to open 20 high-tech institutes in the future and develop the chemical-pharmaceutical, textile, automotive, steel, biotechnology and ICT industries," said Bhojwani.
The panel at INTEC was headed by the Rector, Rolando M. Guzmán, the economist Ramón Pérez Minaya and the engineer Ramón Flores. Intecnología'11 has the sponsorship of Orange Dominicana and the support of Claro, Viva, Wind Telecom, Tricom, Cemex Dominicana, the National Office of Industrial Property (ONAPI), the Dominican Institute of Telecommunications (INDOTEL), National Statistical Office ( ONE), Cecomsa, EPS, Sang DataRed, Aeropost, Bonanza SA and Center for the Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and Q-Bex. The BHD bank, Ambev Dominicana, Dominos, Body Shop and Vital Malt also participate. India, education and technology innovations
After the Second World War the mix of investment in education and technology in this emerging economy has allowed today to have more than 200 universities that grant 4,000 doctorates and 35,000 graduate diplomas.
Indian talent has spread, making vital contributions such as USB, co-invented by Ajat Bhatt. Also fiber optic, which would not have been so used in the world of telecommunications, if it were not thanks to the ideas of Narinder Singh Kapany in 1954. Recently the Indian government has launched the cheapest tablet in the world: students can buy it for a subsidized price of only US $ 35 dollars and in November it will be sold in stores at 60 dollars.