Bangalore: An Indian IT veteran sees "big revolution" taking place in internet-enabled projects going forward, with the country becoming the front-end of the web-services of the world.

From the mid-1980s "when no one believed that we could do IT in India", Radha Ramaswami Basu noted that the country has come a long way with the IT-BPO sector already becoming a $100 billion industry.

Widely considered as a leading woman entrepreneur in hi-tech companies and a pioneer in the Indian software business, she was actively associated with Hewlett Packard's operations in India and set up one of the earliest software centres of any multinational here.

Radha said the "next phase" would be "web-service revolution". "We did it in IT-BPO and I believe we can do this with the power of rural youth and women", she told reporters here today on the occasion of philathropic investment firm Omidyar Network investing in iMerit Technology Services, founded by her last year.

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