The Centre for Information Technology and the Networked Economy (CITNE), launched in July 2006 is the youngest of ISB’s centres of excellence. Its mission is to encourage innovative thinking in maximising the benefit of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to business and society. It fosters ICT centric inter-disciplinary research, education, and outreach that:

• shows firms how to get business value and competitive advantage out of IT investments
• develops global best practices and enhances the competitiveness of the Indian IT/ITeS industry
• focuses on how ICT can help towards economic development 

CITNE promotes analytical, empirical, and field experiment oriented partnerships between researchers and industry. We provide a platform for meaningful collaboration between the global Information Systems (IS) research community and the burgeoning, global-scoped Indian IT/ITeS industry.