Information technology major IBM will invest in the localisation initiatives of Indian universities, developers and scientists for developing e-governance interfaces and applications around Linux, a company official said on Wednesday.
"We are thinking of investing in the localisation efforts of Indian universities, scientists for developing e-governance applications and interfaces around Linux for enabling larger population to use the online citizen services," Satish Kaushal, country manager, government software group, IBM, told PTI on the sidelines of a seminar in New Delhi.
He said the company was already investing a lot in the e-governance area setting up e-governance centres of excellence, working with Indian Universities.
"Since Linux is our preferred operating system, we would like the e-governance applications to be developed around it in local languages which would help such interfaces to be used by everybody," he said.
Some of the applications IBM would want Indian universities and academia to develop are -- municipal services applications for birth and death records, property tax, smart card based applications, social security among others.
IBM is involved in e-governance projects like an integrated project of NIC, a "pro-poor" citizen service project of Uttranchal government, the online citizen services of Maharashtra government in land records, police and treasury, he said.
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