Hi, On 11/12/2010 08:45 PM, Venkatesh Hariharan wrote: > > This is intended for all government to government, and government to > citizens projects. A committee is now evaluating various standards against > the mandatory and desirable criteria set out in this policy. Once the > standards for each area have been identified, these will be notified and > will have to be followed by e-gov projects. My understanding is that these > will also be a part of the RFPs. In other words, the standards will be built > into the specifications for the project from inception. > > Over the last three years, we worked with our friends in government, > academic, civil society, the FOSS community and the media to push the Indian > government in favor of a policy that mandates a single, royalty-free > standard. Some of us are very visible because we write/scream about this > issue, therefore I'd like to thank some of the unsung heroes who made this > happen -- the folks within govt and academia who put in tremendous amount of > work behind the scenes to make this policy a reality. >
Isn't there someone associated with LFY who hangs out here ? Maybe they should do an article about this and give it a bit more visibility. I keep hearing about the 'folks within govt and academia' who understand an work a lot towards making such efforts possible, it would be nice to know have them recognized. Anyone who has contacts in online/paper based tech. publications should reach out to them with this and similar success stories. Shameless self-promotion ought to work for FOSS too :) ! cheers, - steve -- random spiel: http://lonetwin.net/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
