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Red Hat has welcomed the Open Standards for e-Governance Policy recently approved by the Indian Department of IT (DIT), calling it a victory for the open source community.
“It is very heartening to note that a key section of the policy, Section 4.1.2 unambiguously states that: The Patent claims necessary to implement the Identified Standard shall be made available on a Royalty-Free basis for the life time of the Standard,” Red Hat said in a statement. “This was the section that was hotly contested by proprietary software vendors who lock in users through closed, proprietary formats. This is a historic moment for the Indian IT industry and DIT deserves congratulations for approving a policy that will ensure India's Digital Sovereignty and the long-term preservation of India's e-government data.”
The Indian government is spending billions of dollars on creating e-government applications, under the National e-Government Action Plan and the finalization of the Open Standard policy is a key step in this direction.
Open Standards are the backbone that will unify these applications and enable the sharing of data across different applications. This will drive more efficiency in e-governance enabling policy makers and e-government practitioners to quickly pull together data from different government departments and take more informed decisions.
According to Red Hat, “If the government hadn’t decisively supported open, royalty-free standards and supported proprietary, royalty-based technologies it would have pushed India into a type of technology neo-colonialism and this would have put our IT superpower status at risk. One hopes that they will take the task of unifying e-government through open standards seriously; and implement this policy in letter and spirit.”
Red Hat has welcomed the Open Standards for e-Governance Policy recently approved by the Indian Department of IT (DIT), calling it a victory for the open source community.
“It is very heartening to note that a key section of the policy, Section 4.1.2 unambiguously states that: The Patent claims necessary to implement the Identified Standard shall be made available on a Royalty-Free basis for the life time of the Standard,” Red Hat said in a statement. “This was the section that was hotly contested by proprietary software vendors who lock in users through closed, proprietary formats. This is a historic moment for the Indian IT industry and DIT deserves congratulations for approving a policy that will ensure India's Digital Sovereignty and the long-term preservation of India's e-government data.”
The Indian government is spending billions of dollars on creating e-government applications, under the National e-Government Action Plan and the finalization of the Open Standard policy is a key step in this direction.
Open Standards are the backbone that will unify these applications and enable the sharing of data across different applications. This will drive more efficiency in e-governance enabling policy makers and e-government practitioners to quickly pull together data from different government departments and take more informed decisions.
According to Red Hat, “If the government hadn’t decisively supported open, royalty-free standards and supported proprietary, royalty-based technologies it would have pushed India into a type of technology neo-colonialism and this would have put our IT superpower status at risk. One hopes that they will take the task of unifying e-government through open standards seriously; and implement this policy in letter and spirit.”
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