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South India Regional workshop on 'Software Principles for the Public Sector, with focus on Public Education' on 1st and 2nd February, 2010 in Bangalore
UNESCO, e-Governance Department, Government of Karnataka, Department of Primary and Secondary Education and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan, Government of Karnataka, Karnataka Jnana Aayoga (Karnataka Knowledge Commission) and IT for Change (ITfC), are co-organising a workshop “Software Principles for the Public Sector, with focus on Public Education” on the 1st and 2nd February, 2010 in Bangalore. Workshop objectives: The objectives of this workshop include: 1.Contribute to a better understanding of how the specific contexts and vision/ethos of the public sector, including principles of universal access, participation, transparency and social justice would inform the architecture and design of software for the public sector. 2.Share experiences and lessons in “public sector software” development and implementation programs in southern states of India and highlight potential areas and challenges .
FLOSS computers at public schools in Uruguay
Uruguay has become the first country where all children attending public schools have a laptop, using free software.
FOSSCOMM - India's national FOSS network
FOSSCOMM (http://fosscomm.in) has brought together FOSS communities, NGOs, LUGs, academic institutions , FOSS based enterprises in a broad, national coalition that will work towards increasing FOSS adoption and promotion.
Training of undergraduate students from 6 different universitise in Ghana on the use of Linux OS
The AITI under the FLOSSInclude project has trained 42 stduents on the use of the Linux Operating System and various free tools that can be used for software development
Controversy surrounding national policy on open standards for egovernance in India
A draft policy on open standards for governance, more than a year in the making is about to be dramatically altered due to pressure from proprietary software based technology firms.
Training of Trainers on African FOSS Business Models -- apply now!
The ict@innovation programme has published a call for applicants who would like to become qualified trainers on African FOSS Business models. This is a special opportunity for ICT and business experts in Eastern and Southern Africa. Application deadline is May 30, 2009. Trainings will take place throughout the region between July and October 2009.
Undergraduate Internship Opportunities
The Humanitarian FOSS (H-FOSS) Project offers summer internships for undergraduate computing students who want to get involved in building free and open source software for use by humanitarian organizations.
FLOSS user groups play important role in Latin America
User groups have long formed a key part of the FLOSS ecosystem. Roberto Allende discusses the important role they have played in Latin America, with the Plone and Python communities as examples.
Interview on Malaysia's Public Sector OSS program
In an interview with CENATIC, a Malaysian government official talks about how the country uses FLOSS to modernise its public sector. She discusses the benefits of FLOSS both to the government and to Malaysian businesses.
FOSS Manifesto
The FOSS community in India is running a campaign to have support for FOSS included in the election manifestos of various political parties.
Linux brings hope to Spain's poorest region
"New information technology can help us achieve our goals," The president of Extremadura may be the leader of the poorest region of Spain, but that hasn't dented his ambition or his belief in technological progress.
Extremadura Experience in Latin America
A couple of technicians from the Association of Popular Universities in Extremadura (AUPEX) are visiting Ecuador and Bolivia. Their work there is to discuss the model for the Information Society in Extremadura and transfer knowledge and experiences of five American countries in the framework of the Iberoamerican Network for Technological Cooperation (IBERCOTEC), a project of the Extremeña International Cooperation Agency for Development and AUPEX.
La Junta de Extremadura presenta "Lenix", la nueva versión del software libre gnuLinEx
El Ejecutivo regional distribuye gnuLinEx Lenix de forma gratuita, por lo que ya puede descargarse la versión instalable y la versión Live desde la página oficial www.linex.org.
FUNDECYT participa en el congreso internacional eChallenges 2008
FUNDECYT, la Fundación para el Desarrollo de la Ciencia y la Tecnología en Extremadura, ha estado presente en la Conferencia “eChallenges 2008” presentando dos casos de buenas prácticas liderados desde Extremadura.
Plone launches Asia-Pacific user group
With Plone emerging as an important free content management system in the Asia-Pacific region, the system's users have formed a group to coordinate their work and promote the software.
A look at FLOSS in Ecuador
At LWN.net, Marco Fioretti takes a look at the use of FLOSS in Ecuador. He finds a lively scene with numerous projects, such as a government-sponsored digital signature scheme. There is also a vibrant developer community.
Report on FLOSS in the Spanish public administration
The Spanish IT competence centre CENATIC has published an extensive report on FLOSS in the Spanish public administration. The report is now available in English.
WANTED: Co-editors for materials on FOSS Business Models in Africa
Are you interested in developing training materials that make the case for exciting new business models in the area of Free and Open Source Software in Africa? Are you an African expert in the creation of training material and the teaching of business models? Then respond to this call by *November 25* to become part of an exciting programme to build African FOSS businesses. The ict@innovation programme, a partnership between FOSSFA, OSISA and InWEnt, is engaging with African experts in curriculum and course development to participate in the creation of training materials on Free and Open Source Business Models.
ict@innovation
Capacity Building in Innovative Information and Communication Technologies through Free and Open Source Software in Southern and East Africa
The 7th North-East Asia OSS Promotion Forum
The 7th NEA OSS Promotion Forum are held from Oct 29 to 31,2008 Wuxi,China. There have 3 working group workshop. WG3 is about Web interoperability discrepancy.
Mifos 1.1
A new release of an open source management information system (MIS) for the microfinance industry.
