My changing roles and experiences
Ever since I left TCS I have made an effort to make the masses use ICT. I have spent time with school kids, college students, principals, ngo personnels, ngo leaders, office boys. The idea is to make them understand what IT has in store for them. Can they work to setup efficient systems in the ngos so that they spend less time in unnecessary things and use their core competency. As I have worked I have had several experiences that I have cherished, hated or plainly wondered. I would like to put up one experience I would never forget, one that has made me much stronger. Once while marketing apnaIT's products to schools, I had the misfortune of meeting a principal. All went well for sometime until he asked what is your background? I honestly told him I worked for TCS for 4 years and the quit to use all my acquired skills for underpriviliged in the country. I expected him to be ok with what I said, but then what he said left me aghas...