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All,<br>
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</font><font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">The UNU IIST is
looking at the same issues of technical sustainability<br>
that we addressed in</font><font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">
the WSIS CS declarations and which I discussed<br>
at the recent CRACIN workshop.<br>
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In particular, IIST recognizes that open source alone is not<br>
sufficient, but that training for developers in these countries is key.<br>
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Their take on this is to build corporate partnerships.<br>
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Title Open source provides opportunity, challenge for
developing world<br>
Date 2006.04.21 16:00<br>
Author Jay Lyman<br>
Topic <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://business.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/03/31/2032201">http://business.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/03/31/2032201</a><br>
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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.<br>
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(more) <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://business.newsforge.com/print.pl?sid=06/03/31/2032201">http://business.newsforge.com/print.pl?sid=06/03/31/2032201</a><br>
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WJM<br>
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Bill McIver
People-Centred Technologies group
National Research Council Canada Institute for Information Technology
URL: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://nrc.gc.ca">http://nrc.gc.ca</a>
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