The Indian Government has recently proposed to go the Open Source way in its e-governance projects, and the Department of Information Technology has issued a Draft Policy in this regard. The move has been welcomed by the IT Industry. According to a latest draft policy on e-governance, all new projects must work on Open Source Operating Systems only.
The draft ‘Policy on Device Drivers for Procurement of Hardware for e-Governance’ states that the, “Government of India (GOI) endeavors to provide e-governance services, which are technology-neutral, cost-effective, interoperable and vendor neutral. The GOI policy on open standards is as step towards meeting this objective in the development of e-governance applications” . The policy will be applicable in all new e-governance projects, as well as in existing ones.
* ( Source :- By Diksha P Gupta , Linux ForYou – The complete Magazine on Open Source, Volume:09, Issue 06, August 2011 )
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