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Pre-Budget Consultation 2016 - Submission to the IT Group of the Ministry of Finance: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Jan 12, 2016 — last modified Jan 12, 2016 01:34 PM — filed under: Open Standards, Open Source, Cybersecurity, Open Data, Intellectual Property Rights, Open Government Data, Featured, Patents, Openness, Open Innovation, Encryption Policy
The Ministry of Finance has recently held pre-budget consultations with different stakeholder groups in connection with the Union Budget 2016-17. We were invited to take part in the consultation for the IT (hardware and software) group organised on January 07, 2016, and submit a suggestion note. We are sharing the note below. It was prepared and presented by Sumandro Chattapadhyay, with contributions from Rohini Lakshané, Anubha Sinha, and other members of CIS.
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Response to the Draft National Policy on Open Standards for e-Governance: by Sunil Abraham — published Sep 18, 2008 — last modified Aug 23, 2011 03:05 AM — filed under: Open Standards, Publications
Pranesh Prakash, Programme Manager at the Centre for Internet and Society, authored a response to the draft Open Standards Policy document published by the National Informatics Centre, Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.
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Second Response to Draft National Policy on Open Standards for e-Governance: by Pranesh Prakash — published Jul 07, 2009 — last modified Jul 07, 2009 04:49 PM — filed under: Open Standards, Public Accountability, Software Patents
Another draft (labelled "version 2", dated May 26, 2009) of the draft national policy on open standards for e-governance was made available to Fosscomm, while many software companies were speaking out against NASSCOM's position on the policy. CIS drafted a second response addressing both the allegations against NASSCOM as well as the few shortcomings we perceive in the draft policy.
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Report on Open Standards for GISW2008: by Pranesh Prakash — published Dec 08, 2008 — last modified Jan 05, 2009 06:52 AM — filed under: Open Standards, FLOSS
In this report, Sunil Abraham lays out the importance and the policy implications of Open Standards.
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Comments on the National Geospatial Policy (Draft, V.1.0), 2016: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Jun 01, 2016 — last modified Jun 30, 2016 09:40 AM — filed under: Open Standards, Open Data, Open Government Data, Featured, Geospatial Data, National Geospatial Policy, Openness
The Department of Science and Technology published the first public draft of the National Geospatial Policy (v.1.0) on May 05, 2016, and invited comments from the public. CIS submitted the following comments in response. The comments were authored by Adya Garg, Anubha Sinha, and Sumandro Chattapadhyay.
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