Like me, if you believe that taking Information Technology and Internet to rural area in whole india can change life of all indian citizen than lets support BJP. Since BJP is have better focus on spreading IT/Internet hence myself decided that being a silent supporter for a political party is not good enough to take India at next level in this compitive IT /Internet world World. I Also decided to publicly voice my support for the BJP for the general elections to be held in April-May 2009.

I Apeal all Information technologist to come out and Lets Support BJP as party and Mr L. K. Advani as PM Candidate.

Pls Visit http://www.lkadvani.in/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=4079&p=0 to know more about the same.

How they will go about eliminating corruption, achieve total transparency and accountability in all actions of Governments from the National level to the Panchayat level, how will black money be eliminated from circulation, how a level playing field will be created for all citizens in all facets of life such as ensuring nutritious food to eliminate hunger, agriculture production, ensure sufficient pure water, good health, hygiene, housing for all, education for all, employment generation, skills training required by communities, small savings, social security for all, narrowing the divide between the rich and the poor, etc.

Right now,it is having 3 alternate days water supply and 12 hours of powercut.

Is any politician listening from last 50 Years?

Democracy is a number game! We can keep debating while the ‘vote banks’ shore up the numbers, making ‘us; irrelevant!

Great things start with a mission.. and I’d say it’s a good start, for a political party to have an IT vision to speak of.. trying to step out of the communal shadows!

And the link between action taken and impact on social objectives is weaker still.

Therefore, providing IT regulation, more IT hardware, more connectivity which is all part of IT infrastructure without proper vision for implementation through building allied capabilities will only make it fall apart like what happens today in primary education or primary healthcare (social infrastructure).

Maybe the document is aimed at the “IT aware” (but not aware enough to figure out if this IT vision document has meat and teeth) audience.It is a dichotomy visible starkly in developing countries – we have abject poverty, illiteracy and lack of basic standards of living for a big % of the population. At the same time there are other groups of people with global living standards, global views on what to eat, wear, how to be connected to the world and who think that this IT vision document is a good thing to have. This document is trying to address this other group.

Second, a government’s primary responsibility is defence from external threats, number two is internal law and order and number three is welfare activities. When the government fails to deliver on one and two, and keeps on talking about the third only, it is clearly vote bank politics.

To put this document in context, voters need to be aware about the entire poll manifesto, check whether it addresses our major concerns, debate whether each promise is doable, effective (against stated goals), get information on data that puts the problem and solution in context and so on. The richness of a poll debate will depend on all these.

Thats a big tragedy indeed. We have CERT-IN recommending censoring of the web and now DSA that would want to monitor everything it can monitor driving up the cost of operating infrastructure.
To secure their digital assets they need to scrap the organization called NIC and let individual departments to manage their own assets as they see fit. Centralized bureaucracies are EVIL.

“cyber warfare, cyber counter-terrorism” what are they smoking ?

-Tarun

/me waits for someone to pwn this country.

Anyway a lot of it is cliche ridden and short on real depth in terms of what is really expected on the ground.

“An independent body, Digital Security Agency (DSA), to be set up for cyber warfare, cyber counter-terrorism, and cyber security of national digital assets…”
One word for it ‘BOSH’

“Video conferencing to be made affordable and universally accessible.”
A goal straight from the late 90′s. Its an application of universal broadband availability over 3G, Wimax, Metro Ethernet or DSL.

“Broadband Internet (2 Mbps) in every town and village, at cable TV prices (less than Rs 200/month).”
Sure buddy with a dataflow limit of probably 125MB/month and in about 5-10 years from now when the rest of the world would be on gigabit speeds. How about un-bundling the last mile or implementing the saner proposals of TRAI for un-distorting the free market and better regulation for broadband.

“1 crore (10 million) students to get laptop computers at Rs 10,000. Interest-free loan for anyone unable to afford it.”
This is doable, how about just waiving off import duty,cenvat and service tax on computer hardware/software/services and let free market do it for you ? Big government == evil government.

“All schools and colleges to have Internet-enabled education.”
What exactly does this mean ? Most schools and colleges have Internet and the primary usage of the same is for accessing orkut, what has a government got to do with that. How about free’ing education from the clutches of big government and non-profit registered educational societies, instead promote true free market for increasing quantity and quality.

I could go on, its easy to make promises, we need to know how they are going to be fulfilled and who is paying for them. Otherwise its just another version of free food for poor or free electricity for the farmers.