Policy on OSS Development

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OSS in Myanmar

• Policy on OSS Development
• Projects in OSS
• Localization
• OSS utilization to e-Government
• Linux/OSS Penetration
• OSS related business
• OSS Education and manpower
• Focus Themes activities

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OSS in Myanmar By U Thein Oo President, Myanmar
Computer Federation
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Policy on OSS Development

• No official policy on OSS yet
• ICT Master plan( not yet approved) include
  RD on OSS

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Major Projects in OSS

• Localization
• Including machine translation and recognition
• Industrial Development Information System (IDIS)
• Linking Industrial zones ( presently 26 through
  out the country) and all stakeholders in
  industrial development including government
  ministries and agencies
• Trade Electronic Data Interchange (TEDI)

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Localization

• Basic Language Support
• Typing and Editing
• OS Interface in Myanmar
• Office Interface in Myanmar
• Local setting ( Date, Time, Currency)
• Sorting
• Searching
• Advance Support Level 1
• Dictionary
• Spelling Check
• Thesaurus
• MUI (Multiple User Interface) To allow Myanmar
  Character available on other OS
• Advance Support Level 2
• OCR
• Machine Translation
• Transliteration
• Voice Recognition
• Hand Script Recognition

Beta Version already distributed. Version 1 to be
issued in April.
Lexicon preparation in progress. Development of
machine translation in progress
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OSS utilization to Government

• e-Government back bone system will be in OSS
• Some government agencies use OSS Office software
  OSS
• Some National projects (e.g. IDIS ) developed in
  OSS

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Linux/OSS penetration

• 90 of the Servers in all ISPs(2) are OSS.
• A few companies dedicated to OSS

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OSS Related Business

• A few ICT companies doing development in OSS
• Some companies are working on OSS version of
  present systems already developed on Microsoft
  environment
• Negligible in Local OSS market
• Users have no preference on OSS

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OSS Education and Manpower

• No OSS courses in Computer universities
• No OSS user courses both in public and private
  computer training schools
• Myanmar Computer Federation conducting OSS
  professional courses
• Only a few OSS developers

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Focused Themes Activities

• Themes
• Better ICT capacity building through OSS
• Self Reliance with OSS
• Activities
• OSS Awareness
• OSS HRD
• OSS in e-Government

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Thank you!