Title :
FOSS for development in Gujarat
Author :
Shah, Chintan V. ; Jaiswal, Bhavesh ; Sharma, Toshi
Author_Institution :
Shankersinh Vaghela Bapu Inst. of Technol., Gandhingar, India
Abstract :
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), Open Standards, Open Access is of utmost importance in the developing countries like India. The National Resource Centre for Free and Open Source Software, set up by the Union Information Technology Ministry of India, is working on introducing the use of open source based solutions in the curricula of engineering colleges in several states in India. The State of Gujarat in western India, already quite unique on a variety of social, democratic and political indicators, has actively adopted Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and FOSS as an instrument of State policy. The ICT model adopted by using FOSS advocates the better usage of resources for sustenance of human endeavor.
Keywords :
engineering education; government policies; politics; public domain software; FOSS; ICT model; Information and Communication Technology; National Resource Centre; Union Information Technology Ministry; democratic indicators; developing countries; engineering colleges curricula; free and open source software; human endeavor; open access; open standards; political indicators; social indicators; state policy; Computers; Educational institutions; Government; Linux; Open source software; FOSS; Gujarat; ICT for Development; Open Source Technology;
Conference_Titel :
Global Humanitarian Technology Conference: South Asia Satellite (GHTC-SAS), 2013 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Trivandrum
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-1094-6
DOI :
10.1109/GHTC-SAS.2013.6629937
