Hi Sufyan, All looks on track if you can persuade the MOST and MOIT to coordinate on this issue, its more of a IT thing than just a Science and Technology standardization issue. On the issue of the Linux Pakistan community, dont get your hopes to high as the Linux User Community is as what we teach them to be.
They have never been involved in any standardization process by any body, that shows the level of public policy dialogue and the importance of such groups by authorities, since late 2004, I have never read anything on the subject after PSEB-OSRC was created, I think some things were never shared with the Linux Pakistan community and no one would actually standup themselves and share it. Funny thing, I myself came to know about such a committee after you intimated the list that there was one and it operated under the MOST. It was never a public committee. Our group members are already carrying forward activism on various issues in Pakistan related to ICTs and Human Rights in the Information Society. You may want to have a look how Barrister Zahid and Ex-President Pakistan Software House Association and member BytesForAll network is taking things forward on the subject of "Electronic Crimes Bill Activism" http://www.youtube.com/user/azfarrizvi http://tinyurl.com/ynn753 http://jehanara.wordpress.com There is much more effort required on our part than just email exchanges. Best Regards Fouad ________________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sufyan Kakakhel Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 12:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [FOSS-PDI] Pakistan's decision-We can still inform theuninformed Hi, Fouad what we are trying to do now is to approach the high officials of Misnitry of Science and Technology (MOST) under which our standardaization body PSQCA works and make them willing to change the structure of the IT committee on standards for the second round in Frbruary 2008. The committee presently comprised of 3 persons from M$ and another four from private IT industry (all M$ gold partners). Rest of the members are from academic institutions of different universities in Karachi. Since the PSQCA is under MOST, so we will have to communicate through the Secretary Ministry of Information Technology (MoIT) who will cordinate with his counterpart at Ministry of Science and Technology on the issue. So this communication channel itself is a challange for us. What is more important is 1) To identify technically qualified people to be suggested for the membership of PSQCA's committe and 2) To pace up the public dialogue and participation. You might have noticed that even on Linux Pakistan forum, not much discussion was held on the issue. So if we can somehow chanalize the community participation, it will help influence the MOST to take the matter seriously. Thanks, Sufyan Hi Sufyan, All hope shouldn't be lost in our case, there is still time to inform the uninformed, kindly forward the following two links to the people who participated in the voting meeting in Pakistan with Public Dialogue and Participation, and its really becoming a habit now isn't it? : Regards ----------------------- Fouad FOSS Advocate ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
