Open source software and development
Was walking down the hall upstairs and came across “Open Source Software: Perspectives for Development” by Paul Dravis. Still leafing through it, but the ‘open’ vs. ‘proprietary’ software debate is sure to play an increasing role in future development discussions. This short note includes case-studies from Brazil, Tajikistan, India, and Laos.
Also of interest?: a recent World Bank event, held in collaboration with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society of Harvard Law School, Oracle and IBM, on “Evolving to Open ICT Ecosystems.”
Comments or examples of open source solutions that have had a development impact in low-income countries?
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The cost that open source software would save governments along is huge. (Well, not counting the fact that probably 60% of the software used by government ministries in the developing world is illegally installed.)
Posted by: Chris | Oct 31, 2005 5:09:44 PM
I like what Google did with their "Summer of Code": http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html. (I got the idea from Kenya Pundit: http://www.kenyanpundit.com/?p=56)
Seems that if they do this again next year they should have a session right after it for developing country programmers to attend and learn.
Posted by: Murutu | Nov 1, 2005 8:47:36 AM