Bengaluru is more confident about going digital than even San Francisco

Bengaluru is more confident about going digital than even San Francisco

7 years ago
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https://qz.com/1123805/bengaluru-is-more-confident-about-going-digital-than-even-san-francisco/

Despite the perennially gridlocked traffic, flooded streets, lakes that spew toxic froth, and a looming water crisis, business leaders are enthralled by Bengaluru.

India’s Silicon Valley has topped a ranking (pdf) based on a survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit and telecom firm Telstra that questioned executives on six categories—people and skills, financial environment, innovation and entrepreneurship, new technology development, information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure, and overall environment for digital transformation. “Across geographies and industries, businesses are embarking on, or preparing for, a mission to put digital technology at the heart of everything they do, an exercise that has come to be known as digital transformation,” the report explained.