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The last decade has seen the quickening in the maturation of E-Governance across the world. This has been supported by the rapid increase in internet accessibility, the emergence of a number of applications for Government to Citizen, Government to Government and Government to Business services. This brief note works out the key values...

We are looking for a researcher to help us with a short term research assignment in the field of Free Software adoption in Kerala. If you would like to know more about it, read on.

Zyxware Technologies in association with Santhigiri Ashram is conducting a 5 days System Admin Training from March 1 to 5, 2014 at Training Centre, Santhigiri Ashram, Pothancode, Thiruvananthapuram. The course is for professional system administrators who have limited or no experience in GNU/Linux or Unix environment. Course Details Objective: This course will provide an hands on introduction to a set of server side applications. By completing the course the participants will be expected to setup a basic:

We are looking for interns who can implement responsive Drupal themes based on the designs provided. The themes should be grid based and responsive. The themes created during the internship period will be uploaded to www.drupal.org by Zyxware if the quality standards are met and the interns will get proper attribution on www.drupal.org. The candidates will get mentoring and support to implement the responsive theme for Drupal from expert Drupal developers in Zyxware. Desired candidate profile

In the wake of the recent Companies Bill, there has been much writing on the provision for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). It has been taken up in right earnest by companies, industry bodies, think tanks and non government organisations. While the case for mandating CSR is well made, it is important to situate the CSR provisions of the Bill in a context and suggest possible directions for companies for whom CSR is a novel idea. This piece attempts to do just that. INTRODUCTION

Every business is continuously looking to hire people who are right for them. So are we. One key question is how do we know who is right for us from amongst the many who apply to us. Again as with any other business, we have tried to define what are the key attributes we need in our people and then devise a selection mechanism to assess people on those attributes. As a business which is heavily dependent on people, we have a significant investment on the selection side. We have a 5 stage selection process beginning with an on-line aptitude test and ending with an interview by the C.E.O. In the final interview we look for attributes like ability for systematic pursuit in a chosen area, self efficacy, analytical abilities, depth of understanding, ability to present in a structured manner, attitudes to work and work place issues and so on.

Employees, especially freshers are usually concerned about the salary they get in hand and not really keen on deductions for ESI and PF as they do not promise immediate returns. Employers are usually not keen on providing them either as it requires time, effort and money to enforce it coupled with the fact that the employees are not keen on it in the first place. However after having implemented such a policy in Zyxware for the past two years we have come to understand its significance and the reasoning that gave birth to them which has led us to write about it.