Articles tagged ‘public-policy’

Government is the largest user of software in a society. But just as importantly, it also must promote, build and protect a country’s indigenous software industry.

Aruna Sundarajan is a senior IAS bureaucrat and State Secretary for Information Technology for Kerala. She has over two decades of professional experience in government. She has held key administrative positions both in the Center and the State and has been Director (Industries) and Secretary (Industries) prior to taking over as the Secretary in the Department of IT in the Government of Kerala, which she has held for the last three years. Kerala. In an interview with Alolita Sharma, she talked about open source software and the role of the government in promoting it.

Governments can neither create nor destroy successful technologies. They can, however, promote the welfare of a healthy and competitive software and technology industry and in turn benefit from increased revenue.