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<p>Thank you Darshana for sharing this excellent news of funded training program at
<a href="http://cept.ac.in/events/geospatial-technology" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk631286" previewremoved="true">
http://cept.ac.in/events/geospatial-technology</a> . This will be of wider interest to OSGeo colleagues in India. Congrats to you and CEPT colleagues for making this possible.</p>
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<p>I will be in India next week for attending important meetings with my SMARTIES hat
<img class="EmojiInsert" id="OWAEmoji453887" alt="😊" style="vertical-align: bottom;" src="cid:5f0ad16b-afbe-43f7-92c9-3f6e7fdc24e7"> and i will promote Open Principles to all during my India visit.<br>
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<p>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.<br>
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<p>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.<br>
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<p>Details at <a href="http://meity.gov.in/content/free-and-open-source-software" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk124735" previewremoved="true">
http://meity.gov.in/content/free-and-open-source-software</a></p>
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<p>Best wishes,</p>
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<p>Suchith<br>
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From: GeoForAll <geoforall-bounces@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Darshana Rawal <rawalnet@cept.ac.in><br>
Sent: 01 November 2016 10:21 AM<br>
To: geoforall@lists.osgeo.org<br>
Subject: [Geo4All] Department of Science and Technology Sponsored 21 Day Training Programme on Geo-spatial Technology<br>
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Dear Sir/Madam<br>
<br>
CEPT University, Ahmadabad will organizing Department of Science and<br>
Technology Sponsored 21 Day Training Programme on Geo-spatial Technology<br>
(Equivalent to Refresher Course) on Capacity-Building<br>
in Geo-spatial Technologies from 14th November, 2016 to 3rd December,201<br>
<br>
Brochure with details of the training and Application Form is attached for<br>
your wider dissemination.<br>
<br>
<br>
<p>You may also <a href="http://cept.ac.in/events/geospatial-technology" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk694540" previewremoved="true">
http://cept.ac.in/events/geospatial-technology</a> <br>
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--<br>
Regards<br>
<br>
Darshana Rawal<br>
Research Associate;Visiting Professor<br>
CEPT University,Ahmedabad,India<br>
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