[This article was published in the January 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Amongst the remote and under developed villages of Andhra Pradesh, motorcycle-mounted computer operators are leading a struggle for social and economic change.
Owing to the fast progress of the state of West Bengal in recent years in IT and e-Governance services, it is now being counted as one among the leading states in e-Governance along with Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat. West Bengal is now all set to implement India
[This article was published in the October 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Somos@Telecentros is a part of TELELAC project managed by ChasquiNet Foundation to investigate telecentres status and needs and to initiate a telecentre network.
[This article was published in the September 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
In the midst of one of those conferences filled with formal speeches, Ravi Gupta lent across the table and asked something in a conspiratorial tone.
[This article was published in the August 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The effective village-level services aggregated at the district level using the state of art communication technology becomes a viable model having the data centre in the district.
e-Collectorate of Palakkad district, Kerala, is one such model, which uses DC* suite, specially designed and implemented using open source technologies to bridge the services of collectorate and citizens who consume it.
[This article was published in the June 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
In most developing countries, the adoption of a national programme can prevent technological lock-in through selective, judicious and
cost-effective use of open source software.
Launched in India in July 2003, the Oracle-HP e-Governance Centre
[This article was published in the October 2004 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
IOSN is a centre of excellence for FOSS in the Asia-Pacific region. It is tasked specifically to accelerate the adoption of FOSS by facilitating and networking relevant technologists, advocates, institutions and end-users.
[This article was published in the October 2004 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The Free/GNU platform was making strides on software front in many ways but a little slowly on Indian languages. But this slowness was steadily towards universal standards and hence almost deliberate.
[This article was published in the October 2004 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS)1 represents a new and growing phenomenon, which is much discussed these days as it implies a radically new method of production, cooperation and exchange.
