There is a shortage of digital skills across sectors: Nasscom president

Nasscom president Debjani Ghosh tells Anjuli Bhargava how the non-profit is working to bridge the skills gap and elaborates on its latest initiative, the Future Skills Prime project, for the govt

The Renaissance, as the world understood it, referred to a period of ferment, when new ideas reshaped the way society defined itself and the world — a period marked by the rebirth or revival of classical learning and wisdom. In the 21st century, a new renaissance gripped the world with the emergence of digitisation. Formany born during 1930-1990, mobile connectivity, computers, laptops, the Internet, the World Wide Web and broadband were alien creatures.

But somewhere along the way, the world changed. There’s been a new renaissance, albeit one rather different from the one in the 14th to 17th centuries but