Sure Dai, once we have a good amount of information i will add this to the wiki. And thanks for the reply.
Cheers On 12/21/07, Hempal Shrestha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > -- Shishir Jha EPC 1970,GPO 8975, KTM,NEPAL --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
