Thank you Darshana for sharing this excellent news of funded training program at http://cept.ac.in/events/geospatial-technology . This will be of wider interest to OSGeo colleagues in India. Congrats to you and CEPT colleagues for making this possible.
I will be in India next week for attending important meetings with my SMARTIES hat [😊] and i will promote Open Principles to all during my India visit. I am happy to see that the Government of India and many state governments in India are taking many proactive steps to expand FOSS because of advantages like increasing interoperability, developing local capacity/ industry, reducing costs, achieving vendor independence, enabling localization, reducing piracy/copyright infringements and increasing growth of knowledge-based society are among the compelling reasons for adopting FOSS. India’s strength in Information Technology can be utilized to develop products using FOSS which will help in bridging the digital divide with significant cost savings and facilitate the creation of a knowledge society. Indian industry/SMEs can benefit from the liberal licensing norms of FOSS which enables software to be freely modified and distributed. I suggest that you reach out and contact FOSS Initiative Cell, Department of Electronics and Information Technology , Government Of India and build synergies for future training programs. Details at http://meity.gov.in/content/free-and-open-source-software <http://meity.gov.in/content/free-and-open-source-software> <http://meity.gov.in/content/free-and-open-source-software> Best wishes, Suchith ________________________________________ From: GeoForAll <geoforall-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Darshana Rawal <rawal...@cept.ac.in> Sent: 01 November 2016 10:21 AM To: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [Geo4All] Department of Science and Technology Sponsored 21 Day Training Programme on Geo-spatial Technology Dear Sir/Madam CEPT University, Ahmadabad will organizing Department of Science and Technology Sponsored 21 Day Training Programme on Geo-spatial Technology (Equivalent to Refresher Course) on Capacity-Building in Geo-spatial Technologies from 14th November, 2016 to 3rd December,201 Brochure with details of the training and Application Form is attached for your wider dissemination. You may also http://cept.ac.in/events/geospatial-technology -- Regards Darshana Rawal Research Associate;Visiting Professor CEPT University,Ahmedabad,India Disclaimer : The information transmitted with this email is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.
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