India’s second largest IT
company, Infosys Technologies Ltd, made a presentation the business roadmap to
2020 at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Here are some of their conclusions.

Participants discussed potential future
scenarios between 2008 and 2020 at an exclusive CEO panel discussion
conducted by Infosys Technologies at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2008, here on Thursday.

Renowned futurists Paul Saffo and Peter
Schwartz expressed their views on the scenarios impacting global
corporations at the panel discussion titled Welcome to Twenty20:
Creating a Future by Design.

Participants also included CEOs from companies
across the globe. Infosy CEO and managing director, Kris
Gopalakrishnanand along with Maria Bartiromo, CNBC anchor, led the
panel discussion.

“In today’s interconnected world we have to look at solving today’s and tomorrow’s problems through increased collaboration and innovation,” said Gopalakrishnan.

The discussion focused on managing uncertainty
in a rapidly changing world and addressed five global themes predicted
by Infosys to shape the future: Environment and Energy, Healthcare,
Education, Economic Inclusiveness and Ethical Governance.

The discussion noted that by 2018 the proliferation of the Internet would enable remote education, apart from electronic delivery of medical services.

The Internet, it also noted, would enable workers to complete tasks from anywhere in the world, declining urbanization.

There was also a suggestion that print editions of daily newspapers would cease to exist by 2014.

Gopalakrishnan will speak at the Forum on
Friday about how corporations can tap local innovation for global
impact and how economies can use information communication technology
for competitive advantage.

Via Times of India