[Kannada] e_governance and Indian languages/scripts

[Venkat Kumaraswamy]

Hello Kannadigare,
 
eGovINDIA is interested in building up Open Source System for our e-Governance in INDIA and it's States. This is an attempt to build an open frame work for e-Governance of our Nation.

In order to come out with a open frame work for e-Governance in INDIA. Multi-lingual nature of our country have to be kept in mind.

eGovINDIA will use  the help of some of the agencies such as C-DAC and NIC to do pen Source System for eGovernance in INDIA and it's States.

Any one interested from this group can join eGovINDIA at yahoogroups.com 

You can joing eGovINDIA by visiting Group Email Addresses:
Related Link:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eGovINDIA Post message:eGovINDIA at yahoogroups.com Subscribe:eGovINDIA-subscribe at yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe:eGovINDIA-unsubscribe at yahoogroups.com List owner:eGovINDIA-owner at yahoogroups.com 

This movement is taking place now. We want to take help from KANNADA Language experts i this area and also from other Language experts. We have it for TAMIL now.

One of TAMIL experts has suggested the following for eGovINDIA_FLOSS Committee. We want few Kannadigas getting involved in this committee. If any of you know other INDIAN Language Experts who can help this committee please let us know.

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Following are flow of thought from a member of the eGovINDIA_FLOSS Committee, just for consideration and we are discussing further on this. 

eGovINDIA_FLOSS Committee to come up with a fool proof translation tool to convert the data between Regional and National Languages. This ia a very basic requirement for e-Governance of our Nation.

eGovINDIA needs input from KANNADA Language Experts in this area. Join this committee by becoming a member of eGovINDIA at yahoogroups.com 

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:

OPERATING SYSTEM: No doubt our little penguine, will meet the OS requirement for our e-Governance. In the security point of view, we may alter the kernel routing table structure and may rewrite iproute2 (firewall) package to suit our need. Experts and our defense team can own this task. 

We can get a Latest stable Kernel version and can build our own Linux version rather than running behind standard distributions. And we shall have political will to bring right talent to our mission.

BACK END: As, Postgres DB supports clustering and has good documentation, we can choose Postgres as de facto standard DB for e-Governance. We may ask our universities to localise Postgres in Indian Languages. Till then we may use Postgres English version.

Datbases can be clustered at District level initially. Then it can be drilled down into taluk/block level in a phased manner.

There shall be a hi-tech team to look into Postgres Databse admin/replication/backup and recovery. 

There shall be a seperate research team for datbase recovery in case of failure (Even though we replicate data at district level)

MIDDLEWARE: Distributed databases scatterred through out our country can be accessed with distributed applications running at each node. A good model of Middleware shall be evolved to meet all the requirements of handling Distributed DBs along with e-Governance Functions.

JBOSS is a very good open frame work for the purpose. For static/low dynamic content web pages, we may use APACHE to certain extent. If needed we can build our own apache modules to implement required e-Governance functions. Pros and Cons of APACHE vs JBOSS can be discussed and implemented accordingly.

FRONTEND: Information retrival/entry/update can be WEB based or DESKTOP based depending on the volume of data and access infrastructure.

Any WEB browser compatible to latest HTTP standard can be a web client.

For desk top, we may use either GTK (c based ) or QT(c++ based) for our desktop front ends.

In abstract, we shall have a good pool of Engineers with following skills to achieve our mission.

1) Linux Kernel/Network Programming 2) POSTGRES DB Admins/Experts 3) JAVA expertise with J2EE/JBOSS 4) APACHE/PHP/PERL/PYTHON 5) GNU C/ C++ GTK/QT 6) Linux Admins 7) Network Management

I think, WE, Indians have all these skills.

E-GOVERNANCE FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENT:

PHASE I

1) Citizen Database - With provision to indicate blood relation-ships! 2) Assets Database - Primarily our LAND,BUILDINGS with Geographical positions(Grouped under States/Districts/Taluks/Blocks/Towns/Villages) (many-to-many mapping between citizens and assets)

The above TWO shall be the basic inputs for Citizen Cards/Voter Lists/Ration Cards/ Land and Building tax collections. Also they will be reference databases for various human/asset related functions.

PHASE II

1) Citizen DB to be expanded to accomodate Organizations/UNIONS/Any form of human grouping.

2) Assets DB to be expanded to all form of assets (Forests/All form of Natural resources/Agri products/Goods/Materials/Minerals/Money/Gold/etc..etc..according to the need

3) Other required DBs can be created according to the need.

PHASE III

All transactions will be made in digital form, India will have a superior e-Governance in the world. 

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If any of you have questions, please write to me.
 
Thanks
Sincerely
 
Venkatappa Kumarswamy
 
 

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