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*My experience at a not-so recent conference on ICT!* Posted by <http://r.posterous.com/track/?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fposterous.com%2Fpeople%2F36jBKVkr4JgZ&data=eyJldmVudCI6ICJtcF9jbGlja2VkIiwgInByb3BlcnRpZXMiOiB7Im1wX3BsdWdpbl90eXBlIjogImVtYWlsIiwgInVybCI6ICJodHRwOi8vcG9zdGVyb3VzLmNvbS9wZW9wbGUvMzZqQktWa3I0SmdaIiwgInRva2VuIjogIjlhMzAyNTEwMzExOGQwY2ZiM2Y3NzgzMjhmMTQwY2NiIiwgImRpc3RpbmN0X2lkIjogIjIxOTk1MSIsICJidWNrZXQiOiAiRW1haWw6IHBvc3RfY29udHJpYnV0b3JfZW1haWwifX0%3D> Parin Sharma<http://r.posterous.com/track/?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fposterous.com%2Fpeople%2F36jBKVkr4JgZ&data=eyJldmVudCI6ICJtcF9jbGlja2VkIiwgInByb3BlcnRpZXMiOiB7Im1wX3BsdWdpbl90eXBlIjogImVtYWlsIiwgInVybCI6ICJodHRwOi8vcG9zdGVyb3VzLmNvbS9wZW9wbGUvMzZqQktWa3I0SmdaIiwgInRva2VuIjogIjlhMzAyNTEwMzExOGQwY2ZiM2Y3NzgzMjhmMTQwY2NiIiwgImRpc3RpbmN0X2lkIjogIjIxOTk1MSIsICJidWNrZXQiOiAiRW1haWw6IHBvc3RfY29udHJpYnV0b3JfZW1haWwifX0%3D>to l...@iitd Community Blog<http://r.posterous.com/track/?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Flug-iitd.posterous.com&data=eyJldmVudCI6ICJtcF9jbGlja2VkIiwgInByb3BlcnRpZXMiOiB7Im1wX3BsdWdpbl90eXBlIjogImVtYWlsIiwgInVybCI6ICJodHRwOi8vbHVnLWlpdGQucG9zdGVyb3VzLmNvbSIsICJ0b2tlbiI6ICI5YTMwMjUxMDMxMThkMGNmYjNmNzc4MzI4ZjE0MGNjYiIsICJkaXN0aW5jdF9pZCI6ICIyMTk5NTEiLCAiYnVja2V0IjogIkVtYWlsOiBwb3N0X2NvbnRyaWJ1dG9yX2VtYWlsIn19> <http://r.posterous.com/track/?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fparin-sharma.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F10%2Fwhy-ict-conference-without-of-foss-was.html&data=eyJldmVudCI6ICJtcF9jbGlja2VkIiwgInByb3BlcnRpZXMiOiB7Im1wX3BsdWdpbl90eXBlIjogImVtYWlsIiwgInVybCI6ICJodHRwOi8vcGFyaW4tc2hhcm1hLmJsb2dzcG90LmNvbS8yMDEwLzEwL3doeS1pY3QtY29uZmVyZW5jZS13aXRob3V0LW9mLWZvc3Mtd2FzLmh0bWwiLCAidG9rZW4iOiAiOWEzMDI1MTAzMTE4ZDBjZmIzZjc3ODMyOGYxNDBjY2IiLCAiZGlzdGluY3RfaWQiOiAiMjE5OTUxIiwgImJ1Y2tldCI6ICJFbWFpbDogcG9zdF9jb250cmlidXRvcl9lbWFpbCJ9fQ%3D%3D> Well not so recently i.e. on Aug 28,2010 I went to a conference on "ICT: AN ENGINE FOR INCLUSIVE SOCIAL GROWTH" organised by CSI-Delhi Chapter, the reason I went there as there were some big people coming there from NASSCOMM and NIC so I had some questions in my mind which I wanted to ask them for so long so this was the golden chance + wanted to see if they were aware of FOSS, and how can FOSS help in ICT stuff, in bridging the Digital Divide. Before I get into all the real stuff, let me tell you the arrangement from CSI - Delhi Chapter were awesome, nice food, nice goodies and awesome venue (Constitution Club of India, Rafi Marg), and a damn chilling hall. So kudos for that. RIGHT Way, with the WRONG thing Now lets get back to work ya the Conf. started with Chief Guest Dr. B.K. Gairola, Director General NIC in his speech he told about an incident of some rural area in south where they were deploying something, and a little girl was preparing a some list of people in her village with some calculation stuff in MS word and then he asked her that is there a better soln./app to do the same stuff then he told her about MS Excel...... Yeah the story is good but IM(not-so)HO the incident was good but here the the right way of ICT is taken with the wrong thing i.e. MS Office in place of some Open Office suite, had that been the case I would have given this a +1. And then I didn't get a chance to ask them questions because like every other conf. they were running out of time. A common problem/issue with all the presentations was that they all were PPTs. (M$'s proprietary Powerless Point Presentation format) NIC guy's laptop running Windows 7 next was the session of National Knowledge Web by Mr. R.S. Mani, Senior Tech. Dir, NIC-HQ, ND he told about NKN which is basically a project of around 6000 Crores in which they will connect all major organisation/institutes of the country with the high-speed Internet, Gbps lines. But this guy had Windows7 running on his laptop what that meant was these guys are wasting taxpayers' money in buying these proprietary s/w total fail for me!! He talked of security and more but no talk about how the OS used in most of these organisations i.e. M$ Windows with awesome IE 6 browser used in many of these place can be a security threat to everyone!! But there was a small mention of Fedora in context to IIT Chennai and JNU which brought smile on my face.. finally something good. 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