On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Kussh Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > @Delhi Univ microsoft softwares > > Try an RTI application to find who sanctioned/approved the implementation of > Microsoft softwares at Delhi Univ. Those key people will be the ones who > will have been paid a percentage of the profits or they could have been > armtwisted by bureaucrats/politicians/funders. > > kabir.org.in parivartan.com satark nagrik sangathan ccsindia.org tehelka.com > etc could help in framing the rti applications correctly so that it has > maximum impact. UGC etc which funds Delhi univ could also be applied to > since it may be a party to this heraferi as well as the Min of HRD or its > constituents/consultants. > > Once proper information gets found and PUBLICISED, such underhanded deals > will be more difficult to justify. > > But ferreting out this information will take sustained effort and time by > dedicated group of people. Information found out will come in a series of > steps--like the peeling of an onion to get to the core. Repeated RTI > applications will have to be given to different agencies as newly discovered > information comes to the fore. > > A classic example of how RTI was recently used to uncover the process of > nepotism etc in appointments at the central information commission is at > http://www.box.net/shared/igrfvtd2gy and that will bring transparency in the > process in the long run. The rti process took a few months to uncover. > > Kussh > http://ccs.in/ccsindia/2009-dch/book_dch_2009.pdf > > -- > l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm > >
Good too see the site is on PHP a FLOSS artifact ! With some profiling tool it would be easy to see rest of the s/w stack responsible Wordpress + Apache + Linux ? or something of that sort ...So need to tell them that they are laready using FLOSS ... Just my two cents, Samyak
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