The Hindu Business Line : IEG ties up with MIT for Open Knowledge Initiative

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the California State University have signed up with the Institute of Electronic Governance of Andhra Pradesh (IEG) to take up collaborative initiatives under the MIT Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI).

This effort is aimed at promoting the use of OKI's open source software and other standards. The objective is to raise the level of interoperability among components of information systems used in education, Government services and other applications.

Interoperability determines the ease and convenience with which everyday users use a combination of software products together. Greater interoperability makes it is easier to assemble and maintain systems, lowering development costs and increasing speed of integrating new products and services in response to technology trends.

The Director of Infrastructure Software Development and Architecture at MIT, Mr Wilson D' Souza, in a statement said MIT's plans for 21st century environment for education and research critically depend on achieving a high level of interoperability between enterprise applications, academic software and MIT's infrastructure software.

With the IEG working towards bringing over 95 per cent of the Government services online, the effort would now be to collaborate in the areas of agriculture, healthcare, civil supplies, municipal administration, technical education and social welfare.

The consortium plans to extend this network effect in implementation of products to offer better services. The implementation would be based on best practices from the MIT initiative.

MS, IEG tie-up

Microsoft Corporation India and the IEG today signed a memorandum that seeks to work with Government partners to strengthen the IT competency among local communities.

While Microsoft would provide tools and technologies, they would together work on five e-governance projects, aimed at developing technology that would impact the common man.

The National Technology Officer, Microsoft, Mr Vijay Kapur, said: "through the partnership, 70 colleges across the State will be used as centres to impart training and help them work on real projects scenarios." In partnership with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), it is proposed to offer training and internship facilities at CSC.

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