IT policy Workshop

Attended a workshop on the Draft IT policy of the Government of Kerala as a part of a delegation from IIMK. The policy measures looked sound enough to start with, and the panel discussions on IT's role in society, governance and industry further improved on them. I was a part of the panel discussion on E-Governance measures and was amazed to see the awareness levels of the officers of the state government particularly with respect to the needs of integration of various software apps across departments and the challenges for FOSS.

Another thing, The Draft IT policy does talk a lot about promoting open-source, even to the extent of visualizing Kerala to be the future hub of FOSS in the country!