SmartCity Agreement: Initially, the Dubai Internet City invested over $400 million in Smart City. It is a joint venture between Tecom and Sama Dubai. Smart City is in a vast, 1,000 acres (4.0 km2) of land on the outskirts of Kochi, where the state government has set up the Infopark. According to the agreement signed with the Government of Kerala, the park, on completion, must have 8.8 million sq ft of built up space with a minimum of 6.2 million sq ft for IT. Spread over 246 acres (1.00 km2), SmartCity Kochi would become one of the largest IT parks in the country.

Master plan for SmartCity project being readied

The concept master plan for the entire 246 acres earmarked for the proposed SmartCity Kochi project will be ready in three weeks, Baju George, managing director of SmartCity (India) has said. Talking to The Hindu on Tuesday, Mr. George said that p More

Three more weeks needed to complete pavilion

The construction work of the pavilion of the much anticipated project - Smart City Kochi (SCK) would take another three more weeks for completion, said MD Baju George. “Though the initial plan was to complete the work within sixteen weeks fr More

Three more weeks needed to complete pavilion

Infopark has ambitious plans to become one of the major IT Parks in the country. With this vision, it has been growing fast ever since its inception in 2004, and within a short period of time, has attracted investments from IT majors like Tata Consultancy Services, Wipro, Affiliated Computer Services, OPI Global, IBS Software Services and US Technology. Because of the fast growth rate achieved and strategic positioning of the Park in the upcoming city of Kochi (previously known as Cochin), Infopark is well known among the IT/ITES investors as a very potential destination.

A new police station for Infopark

After cyber police, the city's IT hub, Infopark, will see an exclusive law and order police manning a new police station within the park, considering the necessity to guard the park and the nearby areas from criminals and anti-social elements. The More

Cognizant Signs Contracts With Kerala Government

Cognizant a leading IT company from the United States is all set to expand their business at Kochi. Plans are on to obtain 15 acres at the second extension of Infopark for their future developments. Infopark CEO Jijo Joseph and Cognizant’s S More

Spread over nearly 300 acres with 2.1 million sq. ft. of built-up space available currently, Technopark hosts over 110 IT and ITES companies employing over 13,000 IT professionals, including one PCMM level 5 company, 6 CMMI level 5 and four CMM Level 3 and over 15 ISO 9001 certified companies.

Technopark is currently on an expansion mode by adding another 92 acres as Technopark-Phase III expansion and 450 acres as Technocity-- an integrated IT township and nearly 40 acres of land is developed for setting up Technopark - Kollam at Kundara.

ITC Infotech in Technopark

ITC Infotech, a $7-billion global IT services company and a fully-owned subsidiary of ITC Ltd , is setting up its office in Technopark Thiruvananthapuram,Kerala.ITC Infotech delivers end-to-end IT solutions and services to its customers worldwide. More

EMR Software launched by Accentia Technologies

Accentia Technologies, based in Technopark, launched “Instakare,” its technologically advanced, U.S.-certified Electronic Medical Records (EMR) software at Orlando, Florida, USA. Accentia Technologies provides solutions that are innova More

New CEO for Technopark Trviandrum

K G Girish Babu, has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Technopark, Trivandrum. He will assume charge on December 01, 2011. Presently, he heads the Kerala State IT Infrastructure Ltd. (KSITIL) as its Managing Director and also holds the More

Kerala govt to float skill academy

Smart City Kochi and the Kerala government have agreed in principle to float a skill development academy to help professionals in IT, banking, and finance improve their skills to meet the demands of the corporate sector. Speaking to reporters here More

Tecom entities offer access to new markets for ict, manufacturing and logistics sectors in Pakistan

Tecom Investments, a diversified conglomerate and a member of Dubai Holding, registered significant interest from Pakistan's business community at the recently concluded 'Magnificent 7 UAE Expo 2011' that ran from 30 November - 2 December in Karac More

Cyber City Kochi to begin soon

Work on the proposed Kalamassery Special Economic Zone, also known as the cyber city kochi, is expected to take off soon now that the State government has approved its master plan and granted all requisite approvals.

According to K.V. John More