On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 2:46 AM, satyaakam goswami satyaakam@gmail.com wrote:
- Encouraging the use of FOSS in Indian education system. This
will inculcate the virtues of collaboration, sharing and participation in children from a very young age and make computerization of schools affordable.
try to also incorporate technical education and learning by doing as the ultimate objective in schools and colleges.
That gets into pedagogy and education policy rather that "ICT in education" policy so I think we should avoid it.
- Eliminating proprietary software from the education syllabus and
making the syllabus vendor-neutral, thus giving teachers and students the choice of software that suits their budgets and needs.
syllabus should be concept driven rather than product driven.
Excellent point!
- Using FOSS in e-government to the maximum possible extent and
ensuring that government tenders are open and do not favor proprietary software vendors. All software developed with tax-payers money should be released under a FOSS license to encourage collaboration; and the sharing of code and best practices.
- Mandating the usage of open standards that are free from
royalties and vendor lock-in so that the interaction between the government and citizens happens in a free and open manner befitting a democracy.
are you trying to point at the cost?
No. Free as in Freedom :-)
- Encouraging freely shareable, FOSS based knowledge repositories
like Wikipedia in Indian languages.
too technical or a project like can delete this point
- Encouraging the usage of the collaborative model of FOSS in
scientific research. Science thrives on collaboration and the sharing of knowledge. The current trend of privatizing knowledge leads to secrecy in science and reduces collaboration. We must use the FOSS model based on collaboration, community and shared ownership of knowledge to spark a renaissance of knowledge in India.
yes good point you can say knowledge societies in future or something ....
- Eliminating software and business method patents that have lead
to huge amounts of litigation in developed countries. Indian traditions have held that knowledge grows by sharing and diminishes when hoarded. Patents on software and business methods grant undue monopolies on ideas and prevent independent invention and the sharing of knowledge.
-Satya http://www.linkedin.com/in/satyaakam -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers