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One of India’s main political parties, the BJP, has decided to make open source a focus of its new election manifesto.
Why? Class.
While India has a large, educated middle class, it has a much larger number of poor, and many still live in rural communities. The 21st century has yet to reach these communities, [...]

India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) claims that it can save cash for the country if it adopts Open Source standards and software.
The BJP’s policy is remarkably similar to calls by other opposition groups in other countries who are looking for ways to save cash. There is also a backlash in many other countries over [...]

India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said Saturday ahead of parliamentary elections in the country that the national government will standardize on open standards and open source software if the party is elected to power.
The BJP is a leading opposition party in India’s parliament, and is using online advertising and its own Web site as key [...]

Viet Nam’s open-source developers have joined Moblin.org, an international open-source community by adding a Vietnamese interface on the website as well as launching a competition among Vietnamese coders.
The community of open-source developers now has six members, the US, Japan, China, India, and Brazil and Viet Nam.
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Today, nearly every corner of the world faces the challenge of a stagnant or shrinking economy. Bleak economic forecasts, shrinking budgets and increasing pressure on businesses and governments to meet the needs of their customers and constituents—often with less resources to do so—are becoming commonplace. While I’m not naïve enough to suggest a “one-size-fits-all” cure [...]