The group of 20 young, fresh-faced computer programmers in jeans and polo shirts embossed with the company logo could have been with any Silicon Valley startup. But the team, lined up in New Delhi in July 2007 for a portrait taken by a news photographer, work for a Swiss company called Nivio, which employs more than 85% of its engineers and designers in India. The headline over the photo crows: “Indians invented world’s first Windows-based online desktop.”
Nivio is one of 34 companies chosen this year by the Geneva-based World Economic Forum to be among its 2009 Technology Pioneers—companies offering new technologies or business models that could advance the global economy and positively affect peoples’ lives. It’s a perfect example of how the technology business is evolving…
