Yap Agreed !!! Governments' decision relating to IT strategy and policies broadly, and in particular to procurement, the setting and adoption of standards, investment in technology, and training and skill development can have grave consequences for the future well being of their peoples. Hence we need to take into consideration various factor, while thinking about this issue. Further, there are many Challenges and Opportunities as well: Here are some which I would like Subir to add in his presentation for the workshop. Although these are very few (both) I will be able to add to it during the workshop itself.
Opportunities: 1. It provides a feasible alternative to proprietary software: 2. The use of open source software means that support and maintenance can be freely contracted out to a range of suppliers competing on quality and low cost for installation, enabling, support, and maintenance. 3. Free access to public information. 4. permanence of public data Challenges: 1. Building open source business models, 2. standardizing software and training software engineers. 3. Setting up Open Standards and Open formats This is from me, Why don't we add it in the wiki?? Shishir? Cheers!!! Hempal Shrestha --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
