[Indianlc] Knowledge commision and open source

priti patil pritisd at gCE8DxmWXnBE-kIp4ULVj6HBl6Ooz5RDASgki3yBGatbxqmvq2mIN9njT6cL8hqFCv6z_gXfUhw.yahoo.invalid
Thu May 18 05:35:27 UTC 2006


Hi Malovika,

There is no attachment you're talking about -:(, can
you send us a link to that please !

Cheers.

Priti Patil

--- malovika roy <malovika at XwU1gwdQONguox3gNS04PI9PC1XV_Q4q9hlV9eZMJeLLV_SizeUlJlljYOx9JxU63rCDCmr7ZDkcSP_txZY.yahoo.invalid> wrote:

> Hi,
> this is to just share with you some news on open
> source in e-governance.
> Last week knowledge commision (KC) headed by Sam
> Pitroda was here in Banaglore to chalk out details
> of their proposal to government on e-governance. Now
> the electronic media largely concentrated on the
> commission's comments on Reservation issue... but
> there was more to it.
>  
> I had attended the press briefing, and one of the
> slides in their presentation was on Open Source and
> open standards. Sam said that the KC was keenly
> pushing for open source in e-governance projects and
> is trying to convince the govt. of  adopting open
> standards. Since the objective is to bring
> uniformity across nation w.r.t. e-governance
> projects, it is crucial to have open standards. and
> the KC didnt rule out re-looking at some existing
> projects and modifying them.
>  
> Well, lets see how far the KC goes to keep the
> banner of open source flying high.
>  
> Malovika.
> Bangalore.
>  
>  
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been
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> 
> 


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