The Indian government has spent over $1 billion on infotech last year, accounting for 9 per cent of the country's total IT spend, according to the estimates of research and advisory firm Gartner.
The government has emerged as the fourth largest vertical IT spender in India. This included hardware and software spend, but excluded salary costs of IT staff.
In a development aimed at checking the overlap of functions of e-governance projects affecting the pace of their implementation, the State Government has come out with a policy to streamline the electronic delivery of services and ensure their rapid pace of development.
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Der indische Präsident Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam rät seinen Landsleuten, verstärkt Open-Source-Software zu entwickeln. Dies hat Kalam laut Times of India anlässlich der Einweihung des International Institue of Information Technology im IT-Park Hinjewadi (Poona) angemerkt. Bislang hätten indische Entwickler zu sehr auf Windows-basierte Anwendungen gesetzt.
In der Eröffnungsrede für das International Institute of Information Technology an der Universität Poona hat sich Indiens Präsident A.P.J Abdul Kalam für den verstärkten Einsatz quelloffener Software ausgesprochen. Sie biete dem Land mehr Modernisierungsmöglichkeiten als proprietäre Lösungen.
Many governments provide centralised guidance and try to maintain technical consistency amongst departments because they accept that different agencies are confronted with similar technological issues.