eGovWatch: Government departments to share software code of eGovernance apps

All the central ministries and departments will have to put in public domain the source code of software and applications developed by them, primarily for eGovernance projects, to avoid duplication and cut costs.

“The Government of India aims to make public the source code of various software applications/ components/ products as
it may consider suitable and whose Intellectual Property Rights are held by various Government entities,” a new IT policy on application development said.
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