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Preparing for careers in the Burgeoning GIS sector: Knowing about the Opportunity Areas

Dr. Rajendra Kumar Pandey
President-NIIT University
Thursday, May 28, 2015
Dr. Rajendra Kumar Pandey
The Geographic Information Systems (GIS) market, hitherto a niche segment, is gaining in prominence and relevance, gradually becoming mainstream the world over. This sunrise market is all set to explode, creating huge opportunities for both companies providing GIS solutions, and young people the world over, aspiring to build careers in this emerging, exciting and upcoming industry.

India in particular, has been quick to embrace GIS and we have been using this technology for over three decades. Some of the early adopters of GIS were national mapping agencies, several universities and organizations such as the Registrar General of India and the Department of Space, who created the infrastructure to build base data.
Many state government departments were also quick to get on to the GIS bandwagon, rolling out projects that deployed GIS applications. Today, GIS has also found its way into corporate India, owing to better access to geospatial data.

Recognizing the growing need for GIS solutions both globally and in India, several companies have come up which specialize in this domain and have developed innovative solutions around GIS. An entire GIS industry has emerged, which is not only catering to the needs of a expanding community of clients, but is also generating vital jobs for the Gen Next—basically people like you.

Many young people are turning towards this sector and if you are someone who is keen to make the GIS your career destination, you need to know just why GIS is attractive and where the opportunities lie.

The good news is that several GIS projects that began as pilots in the 90s have now evolved and graduated into enterprise deployments. Many portals have been launched that disseminate spatial data and services and several universities offer courses on GIS and remote sensing.

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