On 5/17/06, Amol Hatwar amol@hatwar.org wrote:
I had attended the press briefing, and one of the slides in their presentation was on Open Source and open standards. Sam said that the KC was keenly pushing for open source in e-governance projects and is trying to convince the govt. of adopting open standards. Since the objective is to bring uniformity across nation w.r.t. e-governance projects, it is crucial to have open standards. and the KC didnt rule out re-looking at some existing projects and modifying them.
The following link gives the press relase (in an MS file format) that explicitly talks about "Open Source":
http://www.knowledgecommission.org/downloads/e-GovPressRelease-08052006.ppt
Then again, the entire site is in ASPX. A case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is up to...?
satish