The National Knowledge Commission presented its recommendations on e-Governance to the Minister for Communication and Information Technology. Issues addressed include Open Source Software, Common standards, Web-based Services and National Infrastructure.The commission emphasised on the need for vendor neutrality and transparency in the governments by offering localised data.This makes it clear that the National Knowledge Commission has understood e-Governance in the light of administrative reforms than merely about electronics and information technology infrastructure.
Department of Information technology ,Government of India in the context of preparing the Eleventh Five year plan (2007-2012), has constituted a working group on Information Technology Sector. This groups primary focus is to help formulate the plan for communications and Information Sector. Section 4.9 of this plan highlights the need for Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) in India.
The National Policy on open standards for e-Governance put forward by the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Government of India comes with a set of guidelines for the uniform and reliable implementation of e-Governance solutions. The objective of this policy is to ensure open standards for e-Governance by adopting appropriate Information Technology that best suits the governments agenda to promote its interests.