An IT Pro's Reflection!

Friday, I got to read one article. I will try my best to give the gist of it.

One of the state ministers had called the IT majors to come and “help/adopt” the water clogged villages in Belgaum, Karnataka. The IT majors did not “bother” to help. The sad(!) minister vented out his pain about the “helpless” attitude of the IT majors. In reply, the author was transformed that pain into an article to IT majors.

The author, in his article, talks about the rapid growth, endless money and lifestyle changes IT majors have brought to the society. He accuses that the IT pro’s lag in “giving” back to the society. He says that IT people complain a lot and do nothing on their part. He gives an example about a small company like Kirloskar, when would start its office, it would give back to the society by developing a park or so. But the IT companies take 1000 times more than what they did, from the society and give almost negligible amount, most often an eye-wash, back to the society. I am not pro/against the article. Certain things were true, some exaggerated and many facts hidden.

What I want to come to, is about how much we “give back”. We certainly lag in that. We have the capacity to go to “outings” every weekend but we don’t have the capacity to help more than on “tsunami” a year or more than one “earth quake” a year. We want something of “high” tide as of tsunami to donate. The small things that happen in and around our vicinity don’t catch our eyes.

The giving and taking is a “hot” property for a long debate. So I will leave my questions as they were before and as the topic is.