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CXOtoday: e-governance Takes Penguin To Rural India

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 15, 2004

“The e-governance wave is spreading like wildfire across the
nation, and the initiative has reached a nationwide magnitude with
the pro-rural budget being announced last week. Linux has a
significant role to play in the movement, claims Prakash Rane.

“What sounds really hard to digest, is the fact that a body as
‘red-taped’ as the Indian government has jumped on to the Open
Source bandwagon both quickly and efficiently…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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