BJP to adopt open source, connect district offices
26 March 2009

National Party, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is utilising IT in full force for its election campaigning. It is connecting all state headquarters and districts through WAN and has plans to opt for cent per cent open source technologies.

Vietnam Government pushes Opensource applications
21 January 2009

The Vietnam Ministry of Information and Communications has decided that government will agencies will soon start installing open-source applications like OpenOffice.org and the Firefox browser by the end of June 2009.

Wikipedia launches academy
27 December 2008

In order to reach out rural masses, Wikipedia.com has launched the Wikipedia Academy in the country. This is the first academy in Asia after the launch of the first Academy in Germany.

First FOSS centre launched in Nepal
16 December 2008

First FOSS Training and Research Centre has been launched at Brihaspati Vidyasadan School (BVS) at Naxal, Kathmandu, Nepal. With a financial support from Help Nepal Network and BVS Alumni and technical help from FOSS Nepal, the community has established its first FOSS centre in Nepal.

ODF seems to become standard for Indian e-Governance projects
25 September 2008

Open Document Format (ODF) is finding its way in Indian Government as becoming an open standard for e-governance projects and help its supporters grab key government IT business.

C-DAC inks MoU with ELCOT to deploy BOSS Linux
17 September 2008

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Electronics Corporation of Tamilnadu Ltd. (ELCOT), a state government promotional agency for IT industries, for the purpose of undertaking research in the areas of Open Source software, e-Governance, etc.