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Submission + - Full text of Kofi Annan's speech

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bayankaran

on Monday December 11, 2006 @06:35PM

bayankaran writes: "BBC has published the full text of the last speech of Kofi Annan as the UN Secretary General at the Truman Presidential Museum and Library in Independence, Missouri. The lessons he learned are collective responsibility, global solidarity, the rule of law, mutual accountability and multilateralism ."

Submission + - Kerala to encourage free software

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bayankaran

on Tuesday August 29, 2006 @06:26PM

bayankaran writes: "New York Times (registration needed) carries a report on Kerala's (south Indian state) plans to encourage use of open source and free software. One of the problems with the "report" of NYT/IHT is the unnecessary tone — the news will further unsettle foreign investors in this state.

Kerala recently banned Coke/Pepsi when a CSE (Center for Science and Environment) study showed that Coke/Pepsi products had high levels of pesticide content and that decision is coupled with the promotion of FOSS to portray the state as anti-market/anti-capitalistic. Recently there was a long standing agitation against a Coke bottling plant in North Kerala as it was depleting well water in nearby areas (though banning the products was a political knee jerk reaction). You would be also interested to know that Coke/Pepsi are used by Indian farmers as a pesticides controlling agent.

Kerala has more than 90% literacy and its human development indices are comparable to western countries."

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