3/20/2007

Geography 's gonna be History

There is much to read in the Linux For You, March 2007 - An exclusive coverage on Linux Asia: Making Geography History. It talks about the new trends, India and open source, Linux for the blind - ADRIANE Knoppix demo, the CXO Summit, Gandhigiri and open source and lots more.

Click here to read the report!

And then the biggest wonder: Microsoft debut in a Linux Asia.

On reading the reports, I found this interesting, their 1st theme in keynote - Challenge the Indian OSS community to innovate.
"Thought-leaders from the industry, academia, government and the community will challenge the Indian Linux/OSS community to develop innovative ICT solutions that can empower developing nations like India."

Too long, isn't it? Well this is copied from the LINUX ASIA website.

India, as we see, is demographically diverse, economic differences existing in its widest form, from overcrowded Hi tech Metros to Villages still in blackout.

Can the OSS community help to bridge the gap? The challenges are not only technical, of course the social, educational conditions and infrastructure - everything has to be made better, and there is always a limit for what technology can deliver.

Can the Information and Communication Technology(ICT) solutions be used to bring the north east or the Ladak on par with Bangalore? What is the scope? Have not we read about the people who are far beyond the reach of information technology - those who go marginalized in near future due to lack of knowledge in operating and managing the information in the hi-tech form? Designing devices, tools, computers, web pages for the masses are going to be the challenges.

Will we be able to push the geography to history?
Let's wait and see.

2 comments:

Bobby said...

This is really wonderful . The ICT and OSS really rocks!!! Pray that God may never infuse such horrendous ideas into this mind (Mine :-).. ) .This article is a good thinking out of the track.But see thta u dont go out of your mind ! Anoop called me and asked me to add a comment .

Ennu Swantham Mukesh .

അനൂപ് :: anoop said...

Oho..So this is why you called up me asked for the URL of my blog..And now ?!!
"..infuse such horrendous ideas.."
Kollam..the study for CAT is going great!! What a vocabulary!! My OED is open now.
:)
Anyway thanks Bobs.