[WSIS Edu] The need to focus on ttechnical dimensions of sustainability

[Bill McIver]

All,

The UNU IIST is looking at the same issues of technical sustainability
that we addressed in the WSIS CS declarations and which I discussed
at the recent CRACIN workshop.

In particular, IIST recognizes that open source alone is not
sufficient, but that training for developers in these countries is key.

Their take on this is to build corporate partnerships.

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Title            Open source provides opportunity, challenge for 
developing world
Date            2006.04.21 16:00
Author            Jay Lyman
Topic           
http://business.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/03/31/2032201

Open source software and development can push governments of developing 
nations ahead in the world, but only if they participate as producers of 
the technology themselves, United Nations University (UNU) researchers 
say. While they say developing regions such as China, East Asia, India, 
and South America are among the biggest markets for open source 
software, UNU officials worry that there may be too few open source 
developers in those regions.

(more) http://business.newsforge.com/print.pl?sid=06/03/31/2032201


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WJM

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Bill McIver  
People-Centred Technologies group
National Research Council Canada  Institute for Information Technology
URL: http://nrc.gc.ca   

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