WSIS and Open Source

UNDP's ICT for Development (ICTD) Observatory

---- WSIS and Open Source

With final plans being set for the World Summit on the Information
Society, the UN will call for deployment of Open Source software,
to provide freedom of choice and Internet access by all citizens at
an affordable cost. Excellent, but what if friends of proprietary
software play the WTO card?


A key issue at the WSIS will center on the potential of information
and communications technologies (ICTs) to transform the Third World.
The dominant notion is that giving people access to Internet and
information will by definition empower them. For those who subscribe
to this dominant notion, the focus of WSIS must then be on the
benefits of enrolling and incorporating marginalized people into the
"Information Society" and thereby deliver them from Cyberia.

http://www.open-mag.com/0846339824.shtml

To facilitate co-ordination regarding the introduction of OSS SW in Vietnam

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