Venkatesh Hariharan (http://opensource.org/node/551) reports:
After three years of continuous running battles, India's Department of Information Technology has finalized the national policy on Open Standards. Over the last three years, we worked with our friends in government, academic, civil society and the media to push the Indian government in favor of a policy that mandates a single, royalty-free standard. With this, India becomes another major country to join the growing open standards movement. On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Prabin Gautam <[email protected]>wrote: > *Government of India > Ministry of Communications & Information Technology > Department of Information Technology > > Policy on Open Standards for e-Governance* > > > *Preamble* > Government of India (GoI) aims to make all Government services accessible > to > the common man in his locality and ensure efficiency, transparency & > reliability > of such services at affordable costs; in addition to this, GoI endeavours > to > provide services to all other stakeholders like public agencies and their > employees and business communities. To meet this objective, there is a need > to cooperate, collaborate and integrate information across different > departments. Government systems characterized by islands of legacy systems > using heterogeneous platforms and technologies and spread across diverse > geographical locations, in varying state of automation, make this task very > challenging. > There is a need to identify Open Standards for the consistent, standardized > and > reliable implementation of e-Governance solutions which meet laid down > objectives of the Policy. While selecting Open Standards due consideration > will > be given to functional and technical requirements and maturity of the > standard. > The “Policy on Open Standards for e-Governance” (here after referred to as > “Policy”) provides a set of guidelines for identifying such Open Standards. > > > For remaining part: > http://egovstandards.gov.in/approved-standards/egscontent.2010-11-12.9124322046/at_download/file > > -- > > --------------------------------------------- > Prabin Gautam <http://about.me/prabin/bio> > M.Sc. Computing > The University of Northampton > Northamptonshire, UK > > > -- --------------------------------------------- Prabin Gautam <http://about.me/prabin/bio> M.Sc. Computing The University of Northampton Northamptonshire, UK -- FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Mailing List Guidelines: http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/
