Nagarjuna G. wrote:>
FSF India should launch a nationwide campagn and alert the citizens as well as administrators of the dangers of these collaborations between public bodies and profit-only motivated proprietary software companies.
One of the things that can be done is to expose how these awards given by Microsoft are only to organizations which use Microsoft's technology to implement a solution.
We can confirm this if we manage to get a list of the awardees and their precise technologies used.
I searched a bit, and found out at least two of these awardees. Both use MS technologies.
e.g. http://lakport.nic.in/ uses .Net for their portnet project. http://nrega.nic.in/ uses ASP for the NREGA project.
Questions to be asked: 1. Are they no worthwhile e-governance project which have done a good job using non-microsoft technologies? 2. How many of these projects have got awards for e-governance from MS and other companies? 3. How many non-MS solutions have got egovernance awards from Microsoft yet? 4. Shouldn't this be called "Microsoft Awards for excellence in egovernance using MS technologies"?
- Sandip