FOSS for development in Gujarat

Author

Shah, Chintan V. ; Jaiswal, Bhavesh ; Sharma, Toshi

Author_Institution

Shankersinh Vaghela Bapu Inst. of Technol., Gandhingar, India

fYear

2013

fDate

23-24 Aug. 2013

Firstpage

314

Lastpage

316

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Humanitarian Technology Conference: South Asia Satellite (GHTC-SAS), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Trivandrum

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1094-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GHTC-SAS.2013.6629937

Filename

6629937