Hi Arun,
Kerala is now seeing strong debate on local body computerisation and free software.
Somebody in the current government made some statements on free software when he was in opposition, is it of any help now?
Government is planning for a state wide rollout of Rs 150 crore e-gov program on M$ platform. We have to stop this.
There are some people http://www.egovernments.org/ in bangalore who are doing some work on egovernments, unfortunately they dont understand the philosophy of Free Software, but do understand the "open source model". I had an email converstation with Srikanth Nadhamuni - the managing trustee of the eGovernments Foundation - a long time ago. Initially they thought of releasing all software as GPL, but have now decided not to do it, because of "security concerns". Now they are trying to roll out their software free of cost to various local bodies. Maybe FSFI should engage with them.
Thanks Krishna
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