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ICT plays an important role in education sector as it helps increase the quality of the education provided and also facilitates the delivery of business objectives (MCEETYA, 2003) but education sector faces financial constraints along with sharing the resources for other things. Education sector has hence not been able to get the full benefit of ICT (Tong, 2004). Digitisation has already captured and transformed the educations industry.  To catch up with it, education sector requires an ICT infrastructure and to compete with the rest of the world they have to rely on proprietary software vendors. It becomes more expensive for the education sector to use proprietary software while they are already dealing with the financial constraints (Lakhan and Jhunjhunwala, 2008). With the introduction of F/LOSS though, the ICT cost can be highly reduced and higher quality of education can be provided (Tong, 2004).  F/LOSS is available free from the internet and is also available in CD...

Experts claim that developing countries will reach higher rate of F/LOSS adoption in most of the sector. This results in significant opportunity of development offered by F/LOSS to developing economies. In regards to the highest use of F/LOSS by industries, education sector will lead the chart. In 2010, this sector is expected to use most of the solution provided by F/LOSS; that is 80% of the application used by education sector for educational activities would be F/LOSS. One of the important relevant factors for this is the presence of educational activities in F/LOSS at educational sector. Major F/LOSS projects are related to education industry and most of these projects are promoted from scientific field (Gallego et al. , 2008). Educational sector is well positioned to benefit from the alternatives that F/LOSS provides (Guhlin, 2007). Education sectors have accelerated the use of F/LOSS software and the leading ones are utilising it to enhance the education and facilitate studen...