[This article was published in the November 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The first APC FOSS Prize established in 2006 to honour Chris Nicol(http://www.apc.org/english/chrisnicol), a long time FOSS advocate and activist who for many years, worked with APC has been jointly awarded to: Free Geek (USA) and NepaLinux (Nepal).
Bhutan, a country with seven lakh inhabitants, now has its own Debian-based operating system in the national language, Dzongkha. The system was built by the Bhutanese Department of Information Technology and consists of a CD, which can be either installed or used as a live CD.
[This article was published in the January 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Media Rural marketing uses both kinds of media i.e. the traditional media as well as the modern media. Rural marketing requires the understanding of the complexities and this article reviews some of the key issues.
