Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>
> * Shridhar Daithankar [linux-india] <26/04/01 17:38 +0530>:
> > Old news. I mean newspaper are not anymore relevant locally. I would like to see
> > a news site like www.theregister.co.uk or any similar which is updated round the
> > clock, for local events. Of course linux is one part of it. But still that's
> > significant...
>
> There are some ...
I meant widespread. As widespread as today's paper newpapers. I am sure you
meant the same...
>
> > For serious use of computers, I would like to see a PKI(Public key
> > infrastructure) owned by government, where government gives a digital identity
> > to any valid citizen of India on request, and as a mandatory attribute to all
> > government servants who can sign for a payment.
>
> Warning! Troubled waters, man ... you want to start a "1984" "black
> helicopters" type of conspiracy theory? :)
That was bit too high for me. Had to get a friend to explain it, since I haven't
read the novel(Actually readin Asimov waiting for TC....;-))
I don't think government in india will have that much strong spine to do
anything of that sort. It's too much contaminated.
Besides all I was pointing at, was to have a valid, government/law recognised
digital signature and would expect to move documents at digital pace.
Wishful thinking and I would bet that it would never come true in my life
time...
>
> > All the intergovernment communication be performed electronically, signing it.
> > And most part of it should be public. Especially the tenders awarded and history
> > of firms receiving tenders.
>
> Oh yeah - this e-governance is such a big buzzword today. Pity that its
> strongest advocate, Chandrababu Naidu the CM of AP, is a diehard Bill Gates
> fan :(
See being a politician easily clutters the view. He has money to pay microsoft
licenses but no money to provide open source development moulded to rural needs.
Linux as it is is useless to rural india. It has to be seriously transformed to
suit this soil.
Frankly rural india is lithargic and fobic to technology. I know. I know how
much I get from my village farms....;-)
>
> > And please somebody apply tax on agriculture...
>
> .. and stop providing free electricity to all and sundry, forcing other
> heavy users (and a company which runs lots of computers - say an ISP - is a
> rather heavy user) to do with costly, poor quality power.
Another sore point of urban civil life...
Shridhar
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