A three-day international conference on outsourcing trends and managerial issues will be held from January 7 to 9.

About 150 delegates, including from the US and Europe, will participate in the conference, R Balachandra, chairman of the conference and K V M Varambally, Director, Manipal Institute of Management (MIM), said.

Eminent researchers, representative of industry and financial institutions will also take part in the event.

Academicians from Binghamton University (US), University of Texas (US), Lappeenranta University of Technology (Finland), University of Southern Queensland (Australia) and Northeastern University, Boston (US), would attend the conference.

Industry participants would be from Infosys Technology, HP and Philips Electronics India Ltd.

The conference is jointly organised by the Manipal Institute of Management, Manipal University, Manipal College of Business Administration and Northeastern University, they added.

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For the Indian Diaspora who are unable to participate in the 6th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, 2008, there is good news as the event is set to go live through web streaming.

The government has allowed live webcast of the events which will enable the Indian diaspora to view it on their computer screens.

"The Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs has accepted our proposal to make the event available to the entire Indian diaspora free, live and accessible through broadband," said Munish Gupta, Chairman and CEO, PIOTV.com. His company, he says, has been which has been shortlisted by the government to carry out the new initiative. This initiative is set to touch 35 million strong Indian diaspora.

The event which is scheduled for January 8 and 9 is expected to bring in thousands of People of Indian Origin (PIOs) and Non Resident Indians (NRIs). Till now, only Doordarshan, carried the opening and closing ceremonies live on its channel 'DD India.'


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