[cr-india] Workshop on "Public Software for Social Sector-Principles and Practice"

[Krittika]

_*"Public Software for Social Sector - Principles and Practice" on 25 
Feb in Jaipur:*_

Representatives from NGOs, academic institutions, government, schools 
and colleges will attend the Workshop on "Public Software for Social 
Sector -- Principles and Practice", to be held in Jaipur on 25 Feb, 2010 
from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Digantar Shiksha Evam Khelkud Samiti.

The event aims to

   1.

      Promote Awareness about the advantages of Public Software amongst
      those who have not heard about FOSS or have inhibitions adopting it;

   2.

      Address the perceptions of people who are aware of Free and Open
      Source Software (FOSS) to Appreciate the benefits of public
      software over proprietary software; and

   3.

      Help people/institutions who are convinced about the imperative
      for public institutions to adopt public software to adopt it.

The conference will commence with presentations and talks relating to 
the importance of public software to society, especially to the social 
sector by senior academics and practitioners. A volunteer team will help 
individuals and organizations migrate to public software platforms. 
Institutions which are keen to migrate to public software could register 
with this team and plan this process.

The workshop is being co-organised by Diganta with UNESCO, Knowledge 
Commons, Digital Empowerment Foundation and IT for Change. It is as part 
of a series of events being organised this year throughout India on 
public software and its imperative for the public sector.

For further information, please read the Concept Note here: 
http://www.public-software.in/taxonomy/term/54

<http://www.public-software.in/taxonomy/term/54>

-- 
Krittika Vishwanath 
IT for Change
Bridging Development Realities and Technological Possibilities
Tel:9535321980
www.ITforChange.net 
*IT for Change is an NGO in Special Consultative Status with United Nations' Economic and Social Council* 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/cr-india/attachments/20100222/aa48a9dc/attachment.html