> 3. Setting up Open Standards and Open formats > we don't have even basic policies regarding ICT use. Standardizing is a distant dream... even many European countries are in initial phase of standardisation. Irrelevant to Nepal if you think practically, if you think about with the user base and level of use of ICT for daily purpose.
>I think in the briefest sense, what ICT industry needs is > transparency. There needs to be clear consensus of where > donations, tax payer's money go and to what sort of >projects, what milestones have been achieved so far [if > any]. > we already have "the rights to information" policy passed by Maoist. Now i guess, there should be few independent ORGs working with media sector to o post the status of a work weekly/monthly? >Next thing comes a clear planning. Planning ahead what > needs to be done in certain years/months etc and how much > is practically achievable, feasible. Planning is not easy. > OK, ask anyone in HLCIT or national planning commission. Planning is the easiest part. less than 1% of work that lies ahead. Rest 99% is getting it thought the bureaucracy of finance ministry and pushing it to the table of respective dept/ministries. >WTO forces Nepal to stop using illegal softwares. When I > say people I mean even people in government quarters. So, > we have two options in hand. Either convince and prove the > usability of OSS or wait until WTO does something. Need I > say, the first option is far better. > i would love to BET my money in this prediction, anyone? lets assume government is using 1500 computers in government offices for WORK purpose (fair assumption!?) In that case, Microsoft will probably sell 50$ /computer licence for government to operate its 1500 computers == 4725000 rs (which is less than 50 lakhs and another 50 lakhs or less for Microsoft office suit and other regular software) no extra bricks touched from the system, everyone is happy as things will stay as-is like it has been. No extra support, installation, migration, training headaches. after all 1 corer is not a big budget when you compare with say, road construction to a small stretch or say building construction (get the idea) Stop assuming there will be any migration from propriety software's. It already has its roots and will stay for FOREVER even if WTO or copy rights law are enforced. OVER N OUT -bipin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
