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Open Source: $1 Million to Advance Global Adoption
Governments worldwide continue to show great interest in the benefits of Open Source.
This week a new European consortium received €703,000 (US$ 1 million)in funding from the European Union to investigate how Open Source can be used as a development tool.
The new group is called FLOSSInclude. The group’s name is based on the acronym FLOSS, Free/Libre/Open Source Software. FLOSS is software which is liberally licensed to grant the right of users to study, change, and improve its design through the availability of its source code. The group’s project is to expand on earlier work done by the FLOSSWorld study which brought together global perspective and expertise to comment how Open Source software can benefit countries and global organizations.
The goal of FLOSSInclude is to identify and implement solutions and tools that are practical and cost-effective within each of the environments of participating members. The members include:
- United Nations University’s Maastricht Economic and social Research and training center on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) at the University of Maastricht UNU-MERIT (the United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and social Research and training Centre on Innovation and Technology) provides insights into the social, political and economic contexts within which innovation and technological change is created, adapted, selected, diffused, and improved upon.
- 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/)
This is yet another step towards more pervasive use of Open Source globally.
To compete globally US companies will need to acknowledge and accept the Open Source movement.
