Dear Colleagues, The IOSN/APDIP/UNDP has commissioned ICT expert and FOSS advocate Fredrick Noronha to produce 6 FOSS country reports. The India report is now publicly available for comments and feedback.
Please view it from here: http://www.iosn.net/country-reports/india/ <snippet> India, with its population of one-billion plus, has a rich tech talent, considerable interest in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), and a network of some 80-plus user groups across its landmass (some active, some less). This offers wide potential. But officialdom -- apart from a few high-profile statements -- have been slow to wake up to the world of FOSS. Not enough is being done to promote FOSS in higher education, though the official syllabus. There are impressively-large user groups in places like Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Hyderabad. There are also nationwide networks like the Linux India network and the Free Software Foundation-India (headquartered in Kerala in South India). In addition, a ring of medium-sized user-groups have also proliferated in smaller cities and towns, taking the technology right into the hands of the user-practitioner. But much remains to be done in terms of providing official support for FOSS growth in a region which could surely benefit hugely from it. </snippet> We would be very grateful if you could send in your comments and feedback by 10 August 2005. Thanks, Sunil -- Sunil Abraham Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.iosn.net International Open Source Network - Software Freedom for All Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme www.apdip.net Thailand:UNDP Regional Centre, United Nations Service Building 3rd Floor, Rajdamnern Nok Avenue, Bangkok 10200, Thailand Tel: (66-2) 288-1234 Fax: (66-2) 280 0556 India :3rd Floor, 314/1, 7th Cross, Domlur Bangalore - 560 071 Karnataka, India. Mob: (91) 9342201521 Tel: (91-80) 51150580 Fax: (91-80) 51150583. ------------ ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/>
