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Fwd: [itf2006] National Policy on ICT in Education: Call for Suggestions/ Recommendations / Position Papers - Last Date October 25
by Frederick Noronha [फ़र ेदरिक नोर ोनया] 17 Oct '07

17 Oct '07

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Vignesh <vignesh(a)csdms.in> Date: 15 Oct 2007 16:07 Subject: [itf2006] National Policy on ICT in Education: Call for Suggestions/ Recommendations / Position Papers - Last Date October 25 To: INDIAN TELECENTRE FORUM 2006 <itf2006(a)dgroups.org> Dear Group Members, We take this opportunity to invite you to participate in the national consultative process for developing a National Policy on ICT in Education on behalf of the Department of Education, Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD), Government of India. The Department of Education, MHRD invites you to submit your recommendations/suggestions/position papers, to assist the Ministry to formulate a National Policy on ICT in Education. Please find the announcement details below. Your support and encouragement is vital to the whole process and we look forward to it. For more information contact: Rachita Jha Research Associate, digital LEARNING Monthly Print Magazine www.digitallearning.in CSDMS,Noida Uttar Pradesh- 201301, India rachita(a)csdms.in Tel: +91 120 2502180 to 87 Fax: + 91 120 2500060 NATIONAL POLICY ON ICT IN EDUCATION CALL FOR SUGGESTIONS/ RECOMMENDATIONS / POSITION PAPERS The Department of Education, Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD), Government of India is currently developing a National Policy on ICT in Education. Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative (GeSCI) and Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (CSDMS) will provide strategic support in this process. This process consists of drafting policy objectives, guidelines, practices and knowledge tools to support the implementation of the policy across all states and union territories of India. This critical task would be approached by ensuring an active stakeholder participation at all levels of formulation and implementation. A national consultative and collaborative process, to understand the needs, challenges, and issues of the states and union territories, is indispensable for formulating an inclusive and holistic policy. This will ensure that the policy represents the views and aspirations of various stakeholders, acts as a guiding document for the States to adapt it according to their local requirements, and meets the Education Goals of the country. The Department of Education, MHRD invites you to submit your recommendations/ suggestions/ position papers, to assist the Ministry to formulate a National Policy on ICT in Education. Through this call for recommendations/ suggestions/ position papers, we solicit inputs from leaders and visionaries in international agencies, industry, academia, NGOs and government to identify the needs, gaps, challenges, and issues of ICTs in Education sector in India and to contribute to the goal of defining a road map for building a National Policy on ICT in Education. Submission of position papers Position papers/ inputs are solicited on the following aspects of developing the policy framework for ICT in school education. 1. Articulate a progressive vision, objectives, guidelines and promising directions for building the ICT in Education Policy Framework 2. Identify challenges that must be addressed in the forthcoming Policy Document 3. Propose innovative approaches and solutions for building a forward-looking road map/master plan for ICT in Education Format and Deadlines 1. Last date of submission October 25, 2007. 2. Submissions can be made either by mail or in type written formats .Please limit your contributions to no more than 2000 words 3. Provide brief bio and contact details of the contributing members of the suggestions / position paper. 4. You may choose to respond to one, two or all of the topics of the framework of the policy outlined above. 5. Submissions may be made by email to: rachita(a)csdms.in Print submissions may be sent to: Rachita Jha, Research Associate, CSDMS, G-4 Sector 39, NOIDA 201301. Tel: +91-120-2502180-85 Dgroups is a joint initiative of Bellanet, DFID, Hivos, ICA, ICCO, IICD, OneWorld, UNAIDS and World Bank --- You are currently subscribed to itf2006 as: fred(a)bytesforall.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-itf2006-797309U(a)dgroups.org -- Frederick Noronha http://fn.goa-india.org Ph 0091-832-2409490 List of Indian e-lists http://wikiwikiweb.de/MailingListsInIndia

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Research papers solicited for ICIST 2007
by CK Raju 15 Oct '07

15 Oct '07

Friends, As part of publishing premier research conducted in the area of Free Software and allied fields, <a href="http://mesengg.ac.in/icist2007.htm">ICIST 2007</a> (International Conference on Information Systems and Technology) solicits research papers from scholars. Last date for accepting full paper is 01 Nov 2007. The list of international reviewers for the conference is at http://mesengg.ac.in/icist-b.htm Please spread the word. Regards, CK Raju

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omshiva is your Yaar! :)
by omshiva 13 Oct '07

13 Oct '07

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Log out of Microsoft tie-up, say open software advocates
by Omshiva prakash 12 Oct '07

12 Oct '07

Check the report http://www.hindu.com/2007/10/12/stories/2007101254810600.htm For full story read the Hindu news paper . -- Omshivaprakash | ಓಂಶಿವಪ್ರಕಾಶ್ | ओं शिवप्रकाश् "A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth." TechFiz :::eXcluding eRrors::: Web: <http://www.techfiz.info> http://www.techfiz.info Ircname : techfiz @ irc.freenode.net Phone: +91 9343726518 +91 9343866368 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBHDpm27OA72yfkJqMRAsSHAJ95Uwd3D8oKoGE4yYsvCL9g5m36KwCfc29d JwxzCE1B0wizl04DgtS7JOE= =hIVl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Eben Moglen interview in Frontline
by james mathew 10 Oct '07

10 Oct '07

http://frontline.in/stories/20071019507610000.htm -- HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE!

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OpenStreetMap project ... and India
by Frederick Noronha [फ़र ेदरिक नोर ोनया] 08 Oct '07

08 Oct '07

Dear IndiaGII, Rolf Kleef <rolf(a)drostan.org> drew attention to the OpenStreetMap project and wrote something of relevance to our part of the world. Rolf commented as below, but meanwhile could you please help to take these initiatives ahead, if you see something good coming of it? --FN PS: Apologies for cross-posting, just trying to build the links... Rolf Kleef <rolf(a)drostan.org> wrote: - The Dutch company AND has provided their data on Dutch roads, and that data is now included on www.openstreetmap.org. And there seems to be an import underway of public domain data for the US (could take months to complete). - AND said they will also donate their data for China and India (which covers major roads only). I'm copying a message I found with possible contacts, and especially want to point out possible work by FSF India on uploading map data via SMS and possibly developing free GPS devices. I don't know anything further about this. Maybe Frederick or others in APC have access to more information? It could be a valuable development to enable more participation worldwide. /-- Kind regards, /--- Rolf. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] OSM, AND & India Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:50:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Mikel Maron <mikel_maron(a)yahoo.com> To: Ante Wessels <ante(a)ffii.org>, dev(a)openstreetmap.org, Schuyler Erle <schuyler(a)geocoder.us> CC: OpenStreetMap NL discussion list <talk-nl(a)openstreetmap.org> Newsgroups: gmane.comp.gis.openstreetmap.devel,gmane.comp.gis.openstreetmap.region.nl Hi Ante I'm also very interested in mapping India. A couple notes on those data sources... I've talked to Schuyler about this, he's one of the organizers of the Mumbai Freemap. Mumbai Freemap is an impressive data set -- it covers all of Mumbai, from digitized municipal documents. Issue is that it's currently not in a form usable for OpenStreetMap. The digitization was done in CAD, and is pretty directly a trace of those original documents. For example, both sides of the road are drawn precisely, but there's not single object representing the road itself. So a second workshop would need to be organized, to transform the current freemap into OpenStreetMap. Technically this is quite simple -- the mumbai freemap can serve WMS, which can be read into JOSM. In JOSM, that imagery is retraced in the "OSM way". It's a lot of work, but my impression is that there's a lot of people in Mumbai willing to work very hard on this, and that with some organizational effort it's entirely doable. I'd be up for helping on this. AND in India is basically VMAP0. So we're talking major roads, somewhat out of data, but no detail within cities. VMAP0 contains other layers like rail, not sure if that's included in the AND data set. When I was last in India, VMAP0 was actually pretty decent for major roads, though anything built within the last few years was missing. Still a good start, and since that import path is already worked out for the NL data, it makes a lot of sense to push that ahead too. Mikel ----- Original Message ---- From: Ante Wessels <ante(a)ffii.org> To: dev(a)openstreetmap.org Cc: OpenStreetMap NL discussion list <talk-nl(a)openstreetmap.org> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 12:59:47 AM Subject: [OSM-dev] OSM, AND & India I met Nagarjuna G, chairman of the FSF India. One of the projects he is working on is open map data in India. They are experimenting with things like uploading tracks via sms. They would like to buy gps chips and build their own devices. Especially in Mumbai mappers are active. I told him AND offered the main roads of India to OSM. He was very interested. I'm rather ignorant about OSM's international contacts, so I just tried google. This seems to be the project Nagarjuna talked about: http://mumbai.freemap.in/ These pages suggest there are already contacts between openstreetmap.org and mappers in India: http://www.freemap.in/ http://wiki.freemap.in/moin.cgi/HbcseWorkshop The second one mentions the openstreetmap editor JOSM. Actually, I see his name as a workshop leader there too. If JOSM is used in India too, it should be doable to exchange data. India is rather empty on our map yet: http://www.informationfreeway.org/?lat=15.686938643550643&lon=76.8613690285… Converting the AND data should be rather straithforward since we already have a conversion script. Intergrating it may be not too much work since most of our map is empty. It will be more difficult to integrate it with data collected by the India project. But that is where it starts to become interesting. vriendelijke groet, cordialmente, Ante _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev(a)openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev ======================================= APC Forum is a meeting place for the APC community - people and institutions who are or have been involved in collaboration with APC, and share the APC vision - a world in which all people have easy, equal and affordable access to the creative potential of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to improve their lives and create more democratic and egalitarian societies. _______________________________________________ apc.forum mailing list apc.forum(a)lists.apc.org http://lists.apc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/apc.forum -- Frederick Noronha http://fn.goa-india.org Ph 0091-832-2409490 List of Indian e-lists http://wikiwikiweb.de/MailingListsInIndia

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Re: [FSUG-Bangalore] Join your hands with us
by Vikram Vincent 06 Oct '07

06 Oct '07

Hello, On 06/10/2007, Omshiva prakash <omshivaprakash(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Microsoft has for long ignored issues relating to Kannada on their > Operating Systems. Despite several movements, campaigns to bring the issues > to Microsoft's attention, things have just been the same. What more? To push > its own standards and grab monopoly, Microsoft has signed a "Letter of > Intent" with Government of Karnataka recently. > > Implications? many! Microsoft would get an unfair edge in the state > despite its negligence towards Kannada language. > A few thoughts about the letter: 1. The main points of the letter - gives adequate focus on the Kannada language aspects, talks about "lock-in" and benefit of free software. 2. Can a few point about the ODF vs. OOXML and India's stand on the issue be added? I think this is very relevant to the situation. 3. Can we increase the emphasis of quality of localisation with free software. 4. Maybe quote a few points from the IOSN webpage http://www.iosn.net/ on why developing countries such as India would find it more advantageous to use FOSS based solutions. While the language issue would stir our passions, on its own it would not present a compelling case since Free s/w Kannada localisation is also still backward. Hope these points are taken into consideration when finalising the letter(if this a draft). With fraternal greetings, -- Vikram Vincent +919448810822 http://www.swatantra.org/

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Sign the FSF campaign: Free Software Free society
by Anivar Aravind 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

Story on new internationalist magazines http://www.newint.org/columns/essays/2006/11/01/software/ New FSF Campaign: Free Software Free society http://www.freesoftwarefreesociety.org/ -- Anivar Aravind http://anivar.movingrepublic.org/about

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Say Libre :-)
by Frederick Noronha [फ़र ेदरिक नोर ोनया] 03 Oct '07

03 Oct '07

>From a friend in South Africa. --FN ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kim Tucker <KTucker(a)csir.co.za> Date: 4 Oct 2007 01:16 Subject: Say Libre :-) To: fred(a)bytesforall.org Hi Fred, How is everything? This might interest you (and your friends): http://communities.libre.org/philosophy/saylibre Keep well and in touch Kim -- Frederick Noronha http://fn.goa-india.org Ph 0091-832-2409490 List of Indian e-lists http://wikiwikiweb.de/MailingListsInIndia

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FLOSS in schools: a query (and seeking your help)
by Frederick Noronha [फ़र ेदरिक नोर ोनया] 03 Oct '07

03 Oct '07

Dear all: I'm working on a paper on Free/Libre and Open Source Software in Schools and would be grateful if you could point me to useful links about such ventures, where it has been used successfully or otherwise. A draft paper (work-in-progress) of what I've put together so far can be read at http://www.divshare.com/download/2205748-36f Your suggestions, comments and critique is welcome. Thanks in advance for any help you could offer. FN PS: Thanks to all who have offered links already... -- Frederick Noronha http://fn.goa-india.org Ph 0091-832-2409490 List of Indian e-lists http://wikiwikiweb.de/MailingListsInIndia

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