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What We Do

Nasscom is an industry association established in 1988 that represents India's technology sector, which is valued at $250 billion. Its primary focus is to strengthen the foundations of the industry, including innovation, market access, policy advocacy, talent, and inclusion. It aims to establish India as the world's leading technology ecosystem by promoting future readiness, trust, emerging technology, and sustainability. The organization also provides various services to its members, including industry research, networking opportunities, and skill development initiatives.

Innovation

Strengthen India's Innovation Quotient and Impact by catalyzing pace of innovation in key technologies like AI, IOT, Cybersecurity and accelerating usage and impact in key verticals like healthcare, agriculture and manufacturing.

  • Nasscom's Centre of Excellence for IoT & AI is a cutting-edge innovation hub focused on expediting the adoption of emerging technologies. This is an initiative led by MeitY in collaboration with the governments of Karnataka,

  • The nasscom Centre of Excellence for Data Science & Artificial Intelligence is an initiative with the Government of Karnataka to catalyze innovation and accelerate the AI and Data Sciences ecosystem in the country with focus on enablement

  • INDIAai is a collaborative effort between MeitY, NeGD and nasscom, aimed at preparing India for an AI-driven future. It serves as a knowledge portal, and ecosystem builder, promoting collaboration among different entities.

Policy Advocacy

Building an enabling policy environment for growth of the technology industry is a key priority. Focus areas include ease of doing business, technology policy, data and emerging technology policies backed with fact-based advocacy.

Policy Advocacy

Creation of a Regulatory Framework that maximizes innovation and security.

Talent Development

Talent is the key competitive advantage that will shape the new leaders in this era. Our mission is to Reskill and Upskill India’s workforce to ensure talent is Future Ready in terms of New Age Skills and Jobs and to make India a global hub for Digital Talent.

  • SSC nasscom catalyzing the IT-ITeS Skills development ecosystem, enabling India to be the global hub for Digital talent. It is the official Sector Skill Council recognised by the National Skills Development Corporation.

  • A joint initiative by nasscom and MeitY, FutureSkills Prime serves as India's technology skilling hub, with the aim of transforming the country into a digital talent nation. It democratizes learning

Markets

As an industry, the vision is to grow to a 300-350 bn dollar sector by 2025. This requires building and expanding market opportunities in India, in emerging markets and existing markets.

  • Nasscom's global trade division utilizes innovative and multi-faceted approaches to empower the IT BPM industry in global markets. This is achieved through a range of activities, such as market development opportunities, strategic alliances,

  • The India Market Development (IMD) initiative is a market maker for futuristic technologies & verticals in the country. This entails partnerships, programs and advocacy with government departments, PSUs, Enterprise and SMBs.

Industry Development

As the industry has expanded into multiple sub-sectors and regions, Nasscom has built specific councils and initiatives that address the needs of the specific sector and region. Focused programs, research, events, industry initiatives are implemented through these groups.

  • Member connect

    As a membership led organisation, Nasscom has a strong member connect program that co-creates initiatives with members

  • Regional Councils

    Nasscom Regional Councils and chapters across multiple cities in the country drive the regional engagement for nasscom

  • Deep Tech Council

    Nasscom Deep Tech ( Previously Nasscom Product Connect ) established in 2007, aims to build 10,000 world-class deep tech startups in India by 2030.

  • GIC Council

    The Global Capability Center (GCC) Council is the fulcrum for existing and new GCCs in the country to collaborate and build thought leadership.

  • ER&D Council

    The Engineering R&D Council focuses on catalysing "Engineered in India" and emerge as the leading destination for "Digital.

  • BPM Council

    The Business Process Management Council aims to accelerate the growth of the BPM sector through multitude of initiatives that include digital.

  • Nasscom Startup

    Previously known as Nasscom 10000 Startups which was launched in 2013, has played a crucial role in creating a vibrant and dynamic ecosystem in India.

  • Nasscom Sme Connect

    Nasscom is dedicated to nurturing the growth of SMEs by providing them with a platform to network, collaborate,

Thought Leadership

Build the industry narrative that helps position Indian IT as an industry that fuels cutting edge Innovation with focus on Impact,   
Talent and Inclusion.

  • Events

    Events is a critical piece for nasscom to showcase how the industry is changing and what lies ahead. Going beyond the traditional construct.

  • Nasscom Research

    Nasscom Research is the in-house research and analytics arm of nasscom that drives thought leadership and generates strategic insights.

  • Communications

    Sharing what we do and the impact we are creating is best done through the communications team at nasscom. Industry members.

  • Nasscom Community

    Nasscom Community is a comprehensive platform for knowledge sharing for anything related to the technology industry.

Affiliated Organizations

Nasscom has two affiliated bodies – DSCI & nasscom Foundation – which operate in the area of cybersecurity and tech-enabled CSR respectively. Diverse as these domain are, they complement nasscom's overall presence in the tech sector to complete the value chain. Being a part of nasscom, automatically qualifies for membership of the affiliate bodies as well. They have a separate and distinct governance structure.

  • Communications

    The Foundation works with the technology industry in catalysing social transformation through programs that span across digital literacy, skills.

  • Nasscom community

    The Data Security Council of India (DSCI) is a non-profit industry body focused on data protection in India, established by nasscom.