[governance] Public software bulletin - January 2011 issue

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Public Software News
	January 2011

IN THIS ISSUE

Within the Government <#WITHIN_THE_GOVERNMENT>
. National Policy on Open Standards in e-governance <#National_Policy>
. Assam state and public software <#Assam>

Within other public institutions <#WITHIN_OTHER_PUBLIC_INSTITUTIONS>
. UNESCO's work for public software <#UNESCO>
. Competition Commission of Indiaand Microsoft Corp 
<#Competition_Commission_of_India>

Education <#EDUCATION>
. State Master Trainers on public education software tools <#Completion>
. Education institutions role in digital inclusion 
<#Education_institutions><PS_January%202011.html#CeTIT>

<#CeTIT> 	

<PS_January%202011.html#CeTIT>

Workshops <#WORKSHOPS>and Conferences <#WORKSHOPS>
. Knowledge Management and Knowledge Networking Workshop <#KMKN>
. Declaration on ICTs in Education <#Declaration>
. CeTIT 2010 <#CeTIT>

International <#INTERNATIONAL>
. Russia uses Microsoft to suppress dissent <#Russia>
. Public software for Russian Government <#Open>
. Defining open source hardware <#Defining>

<PS_January%202011.html#FOSS>

WITHIN THE GOVERNMENT

*National Policy on Open Standards in e-governance - *India is one of 
the first countries in the world to adopt open standards in e-governance 
<http://egovstandards.gov.in/approved-standards/egscontent.2010-11-12.9124322046/at_download/file>. 
As part of this policy, the government has notified 
<http://egovstandards.gov.in/public-review/egscontent.2010-12-28.3570952294/base_view> 
the specific open standards for each format including odf (Open document 
format) and ogg. Read more here (/The Hindu/ 
<http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/article907442.ece>, 26 
November 2010).

*Assam*promotes public software and distributes more than 19,000 laptops 
to high school students during 2010. Read more 
<http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/getimage.dll?path=CAP/2010/12/24/21/Img/Ad0210010.png>. 

WITHIN OTHER PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS

*UNESCO to support implementation of public educational software - *Sri. 
A. Parsuramen, Director of *UNESCO*, India, talks about promoting the 
use and development of public educational software tools for teacher 
training and teaching purposes, with the state governments. Read more 
<http://www.deccanherald.com/content/85421/unesco-like-partner-india-rte.html>.

The *Competition Commission of India *(CCI) is hearing a case against 
Microsoftfor abusing its dominant position as a market leader (/The 
Economic Times/ 
<http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/infotech/software/microsoft-corp-dragged-to-cci-for-abusing-dominant-position/articleshow/6574959.cms>, 
27 September 2010).

EDUCATION

*Karnataka creates State master trainers on public education software 
tools -*Following the successful Kerala model of computer aided learning 
programmes in schools, many organisations, including IT for Change, with 
the support of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) and R.V. College of 
Engineering (RVCE), trained approximately 150 teacher educators from 
government institutions as State Master Trainers on Computer Aided 
Education tools (Mathematics, English language and Geography). 
<http://itforchange.net/blog/2010/08/a-report-on-the-smt-training/>Read 
more 
<http://itforchange.net/blog/2010/08/a-report-on-the-smt-training/>and 
browse through the course material 
<http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/misc/Master_Trainers_Training_Module.pdf>.

*Educational institutions role in digital inclusion -- 
*/Frontline/analyses the Declaration on ICTs in education by anchoring 
it in the history of the free software movement. (/Frontline/ 
<http://www.frontline.in/fl2722/stories/20101105272205300.htm>, 23 
October -- 5 November 2010).

WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES

**Capacity Building Workshop for Knowledge Management and Knowledge 
Networking - The UN Solution Exchange -- Karnataka Community and Public 
Software Centre, IT for Change, organised a Capacity Building Workshop 
for Knowledge Management and Knowledge Networking, using public software 
tools, for organisations of the Bengaluru Division of Karnataka in 
December 2010. A similar workshop was held for Mysore division 
organisations in January 2011. Read more 
<http://www.public-software.in/kmkn>.

*The Declaration on ICTs in Education *urges educational institutions, 
policy makers, students and teachers to start fostering digital 
inclusion by exclusively using FOSS tools, sharing knowledge, 
reasserting the basic rights of education and participation at all 
levels, and asking the State for quality education in ICTs and beyond. 
The declaration was signed at the National Conference on Free Software 
in Education in Kozhikode (Kerala, 10-12 September 2010). Read more 
<http://wiki.hipatia.net/index.php/DeclarationEduconf2010>.

CeTIT 2010 - IT for Change participated in CeTIT 2010 (Citizen 
empowerment throught information technology), the second edition of the 
Conference-Cum-Exhibitionon e-governance in Chennai, Tamil Nadu). Read 
more 
<http://itforchange.net/blog/2010/07/it-for-changes-presentation-at-cetit-citizens-empowerment-through-information-technology-2010/> 
about Gurumurthy K's intervention on 'Public software for public 
institutions - Rethinking e-governance'.

INTERNATIONAL

Russia uses Microsoft to suppress dissent -The Russian authorities' 
latest tactics for quelling outspoken advocacy groups or opposition 
newspapers is confiscating computers under the pretext of searching for 
pirated Microsoft software.(/The New York Times/ 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/world/europe/12raids.html?_r=1>, 11 
September 2010).

*Public software for Russian Government**- *Russian Prime Minister 
Vladimir Putin has ordered government agencies to be on Linux by 2015. 
His support is critical for the success of open source software within 
the government arena. Read more 
<http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9202638/Putin_to_put_Russian_government_on_Linux_by_2015>.

Defining open source hardware - A group of open source hardware 
enthusiasts has been working on the draft version of a definition of 
open source hardware (/The Hindu/ 
<http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/gadgets/article600374.ece>, 28 August 
2010). A first version 
<http://www.openhardwaresummit.org/new-definition-draft/>of the Open 
Source Hardware (OSHW) Draft Statement of Principles and Definition has 
been defined at the Open Hardware Summit (September 2010, New York).

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