[Fsf-friends] Govt in tie-up with MS launches SWARAJ to manage panchayats

[CK Raju, Thrissur]

Swaraj - "Swa" here is Microsoft and "raj" should be Government.

Even with all the pomp and gaiety that followed the new *radical* IT
Policy of the Government, the following were the papers forwarded to
the XIV Science Congress from IKM (Information Kerala Mission aliter
Information of Kerala for Microsoft).

The papers are
http://220.227.128.112/downloads/ikm/CaseStudy20060622.pdf
http://220.227.128.112/downloads/ikm/Sevana.pdf
http://220.227.128.112/downloads/ikm/Sulekha.pdf

This shows the potency of Microsoft even as it reveals the impotency
and helplessness of the
IT Department in our State.
CK Raju
Thrissur

On Nov 28, 2007 10:25 AM, Santhosh Thottingal

<santhosh.thottingal at gmail.com> wrote:
> From http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Infotech/Govt_in_tie-up_with_MS_launches_SWARAJ_to_manage_panchayats/articleshow/2576132.cms
>
>
> NEW DELHI: The government on Tuesday launched an integrated software
> application for managing panchayati raj system in the country.
>
> The application titled SWARAJ was launched by the Union Minister for
> Panchayati Raj Mani Shankar Aiyar at the Microsoft - Government
> Leadership Summit in the capital on Tuesday.
> ....
>  This application would help overcome the problems of multiple
> applications and absence of proper Management Information Systems
> (MIS), thus making the process of technological implementation in
> rural area easier and more transparent.
> ...
>
>
> What is meant by Swaraj?!!!!
>
> -Santhosh Thottingal
> http://santhoshtr.livejournal.com
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