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Apr 21, 2013

Technical Colleges In India To Use Office 365, Sad

This is sad! Enforcing a proprietary system on students is sad. Getting the educational institutions locked into vendors is sad. [Continue]

Apr 2, 2012

Indian Open Government Platform

India, with collaboration with US, has initiated the Open Government Platform (via EE Times India). OGPL is a joint product from India and United States to promote transparency and greater citizen engagement by making more government data, documents, tools and processes publicly available. OGPL will be available, as an open source platform. [Continue]

Jan 16, 2012

Indian Government Takes Us One Step Closer To The Internet Nightmare

It is getting scarier! I hope good sense prevails and we don’t go through the nightmare. Vinton Cerf had said: The Internet was designed with no gatekeepers over new content or services. [Continue]

Dec 8, 2011

Indian Government Proposing Internet Nightmare

The Indian Government wants to manually pre-screen content that goes on sites like Twitter and Facebook. This does not seem like a well thought initiative. Not only is the volume of such content impossible to be monitored manually, the Government fails to understand that these sites are usually the pointers to other sites where the actual content is stored. [Continue]

Nov 16, 2011

Tamil Nadu To Get The BOSS

It is great to hear that the Tamil Nadu state’s IT department is going to use BOSS. It is great to hear about Government organizations adopting open source. And it is a double joy to hear that Indian Government organizations are adopting Indianized Linux.

Oct 9, 2011

The Indian Supreme Court Adopts Ubuntu 10.04

The Indian Supreme Court has asked about 17,000 courts to move from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. This will be a big boost for Ubuntu. The E Committee has gone one step ahead and published helpful resources for adopting Ubuntu: Guidelines for Ubuntu deployment (pdf) 25 salient features of Ubuntu (pdf) Ubuntu Linux Installation and Features video, and A free SMS channel for Ubuntu tips and information (pdf) I admire that E-Committee has provided such information proactively. [Continue]

Sep 26, 2011

India Comes Up With Text To Speech And Web-based OCR

Press release: Technology Development for Indian Language (TDIL) Programme of the Department of Information Technology, under a consortium project has developed this Text-To- Speech system. TTS has also been integrated with Non Visual Desktop Access (NVDA) screen reader and Optical Character Recognition System (OCRA). OCR system developed under a TDIL consortium Project for Hindi & Punjabi was also provided on TDIL Data Centre to get user feedback, while the challenges of computationally intensive technology research are parallely being addressed. [Continue]

Jul 27, 2011

Indian IT Returns Now A Bit More Open/LibreOffice Friendly

Finally! The Indian ITR Form 1 is now available in Open/LibreOffice format. Although this is not the end, this is a good start. [Continue]

Mar 3, 2011

The New Indian Rupee Symbol Fonts and Usage

The Indian Rupee symbol is out and approved. It has been accepted by the Unicode Technical Committee with the code position U+20B9, and ₹ in HTML. Though rarely used, even the generic Rupee symbol can be presented by U+20A8. [Continue]

Feb 28, 2011

National Science Day 2011

Today, 28th Feb is celebrated as the National Science Day in India. Unlike other days which celebrate either political, historical or religious events, this one marks the discovery of Raman Effect, by C.V.Raman. Unfortunately, today’s education system has best highlighted science as a subject where one can score good marks in exams. [Continue]