At a state level, ELCOT has done something of this sort in Tamil Nadu
SuSE laptops distributed to bureaucrats (who probably all went and loaded
pirated doze on top of it..)
srs
> -----Original Message-----
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> Of ashok _
> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 1:41 PM
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> Subject: [silk] open source in government
>
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for examples where governments have developed their
> internal systems in an open source model.
>
> I can find plenty of examples where linux was deployed, and open
> source components were used (mysql, apache etc...),
> but few examples for whole systems which were open-sourced (for e.g. a
> human resource system developed for a government
> in an open source model...or an exam reporting system used by a
> government... )
> This site for example, for the indian government, http://www.cdac.in
> does not have any open source applications at all ...
>
> any better suggestions, examples ?
>
> ashok
