On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Samyak Bhuta <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 I have composed http://lug-iitd.org/Letter/An_Open_Letter_to_Dr_Vimal_Rarh , Please edit and modify it.
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