Members of non-governmental organisations from across the city met at a workshop in Bangalore on Friday, conducted by the Public Software Centre, IT for Change, to discuss why it was ethically necessary for public institutions to adopt public software.
They also learnt practical steps to install, learn and use public software applications such as Ubuntu GNU/Linux operating system, LibreOffice office suite, Thunderbird email client, etc. Kuldeep, from Public Affairs Centre, said, “The workshop showed how software is not merely a technology issue, but as an important resource for serving public interest, it has a huge socio-political impact. We see public software as a strong pillar of our own work in promoting public interests through publicly owned digital resources, ensuring equity in software use. Only public software supports universal access and community participation; proprietary software deprives us of our rights.”
Regulatory reporting solution
FRSGlobal, part of Wolters Kluwer Financial Services, a global compliance and risk management solutions provider, announced that the Indian arms of two major global banks have opted for its regulatory reporting solution in order to help them meet the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) requirements for automated reporting.
“The RBI has clearly outlined the steps banks in India need to follow in order to submit accurate and timely data without manual intervention,” said Prabhat Gupta, country manager at Wolters Kluwer Financial Services in India. “In order to fully automate the process for submission of returns, firms need an end-to-end solution in place that acquires, integrates, converts and submits relevant data directly to the regulator.”
