This is the reply to Vibek dai in my mail. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quite a good research dai. I didn't know all those details about India and China.
Well, as you might also know, the French parliament passed a bill to use linux and open source s/w in all the government offices to cut cost and to promote open source software. About Nepal, what can I say? Whenever I enter a government office, I see a lazy, unshaved faces sitting on chairs, drinking tea and talking all nonsense on political issues. Everybody is a political analyist there. Moreover, there are certain "panels" in most of the offices. Each trying to pull the others' legs. Thats the culture of Nepali government offices. Once I went to gharelu office to register my company. A lady was still using a big bulky typewriter to type in Nepali. Well, for me, it was kind of a shock! She could use a computer and her life would definitely be easy. Work would complete fast and the manpower would sharply be reduced there. I lost a whole day registering my company then whereas it is just a task of an hour. All those bureaucracies and paperpushing stuff. The new policy of the government to implement e-governence is quite a big joke. Firstly, this is a fool's dream, secondly, the government should train 90% of its workforce to use the computer, thirdly, 70% of the funds released to buy computers/implement network will be gone into the pockets of the officials and fourthly, the internet connection is very old fashioned. Regarding open source software, I think people don't trust open source community and software here. People of poor country are used to working on expensive software like Oracle, Microsoft and so on whilst there are cheaper/free options like MySQL, Linux, OpenOffice and so on. This might be because people aren't aware about OSS or are used to paying hefty sum for the software. There is a big necessity of major overhaul of the system. Regards, Sushil http://laughterthebestmedicine.blogspot.com On Jun 18, 5:00 pm, "nepbabu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 04:15:32PM +0545, Subir Pradhanang wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > Here is a really nice article on e-governance and FOSS in the recent > > edition of Himal magazine by JB Pun and Vibek Raj Maurya: > > >http://foss-nepal.googlegroups.com/web/Report-egovernance.pdf > > I read the report. Must mention imho it's truthness scale would point it > out to 100/100. :) > > Govt. people are using illegal softwares that cost more than 2 lakh > nepali rupees per box! This is really awesome report. > > I think these kinds of reports tells us that we need more reporters like > JB Pun and Vibek Raj Maurya in Nepal who can fairly point out what is > happening in Nepal atm without any biased view. > > Very well written report. > Thanks for making it available JB dai and Vibek dai. :) > > Cheers --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
