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L'ús del programari lliure com a instrument pel desenvolupament.

La Unió Europea ahir va anunciar que invertirà 1 milió de dòlars en un estudi dedicat a buscar les millors eines de programari lliure per incentivar el desenvolupament a Asia, Àfrica, i Amèrica Llatina. L'objectiu d'aquesta investigació és explorar l'ús del programari lliure com a instrument de desenvolupament per les regions menys desenvolupades. 

A million dollar open source study
http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2161

The European Union yesterday announced that it will invest US$1 million
in a study to find the best open source tools for use in Africa, Asia
and Latin America. The grant of €703 000 was awarded to a consortium of
11 members, including Canonical, backers of Ubuntu Linix, and the
University of the Western Cape.

The aim of the research is to explore the use of free and open source
software (FLOSS) as a development tool in these regions.

Dubbed FLOSSInclude and funded by the EU, the two-year project will be
carried out by a project team of research institutes, government
agencies, private companies and non-governmental organisations in
Argentina, Cambodia, China, Ghana, India, South Africa, Spain, UK and
the Netherlands.

The aim is to investigate the technical, business and socio-political
environment needed for the growth of FLOSS use in the target regions.

The members of the FLOSSInclude consortium are:

      * United Nations University’s Maastricht Economic and social
        Research and training centre on Innovation and Technology
        (UNU-MERIT) at the University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
        (http://www.ccg.merit.unu.edu/)
      * Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain (http://www.urjc.es/)
      * Fundación para el Desarrollo de la Ciencia y Tecnología en
        Extremadura, Spain (http://www.fundecyt.es)
      * Canonical, UK (http://canonical.com/)
      * Fundación Via Libre, Argentina (http://www.vialibre.org.ar/)
      * University of Western Cape, South Africa (http://www.uwc.ac.za)
      * Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre for Excellence in ICT, Ghana
        (http://www.aiti-kace.com.gh/)
      * IT for Change, India (http://www.itforchange.net/)
      * Sarai, India (http://www.sarai.net/)
      * Open Institute / KhmerOS, Cambodia (http://www.khmeros.info/)
      * China Education and Research Network (CERNET), China
        (http://www.cernet.edu.cn/)

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