The Hindu has a nice feature on the Indian open standards policy. The
examples cited in this article are very relevant.
Venky
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A radical shift in e-governance
On November 12, in a very progressive and sound move, the Union Ministry of
Communication and Information Technology notified the
On a slightly unrelated note, you may want to work on data in legacy
encodings.
Like the voter's database, which is bilingual (en local language),
with most probably, the local language in the dated ISCII
encoding. (At least, that is the case in Kerala).
It ought to be a slightly non-trivial
