{"id":533,"date":"2008-02-21T10:11:02","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T18:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=533"},"modified":"2008-02-21T10:11:02","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T18:11:02","slug":"open-source-1-million-to-advance-global-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/open-source-1-million-to-advance-global-adoption\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Source:  $1 Million to Advance Global Adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governments worldwide continue to show great interest in the benefits of Open Source.<br \/>\nThis week a new European consortium received \u20ac703,000 (US$ 1 million)in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.innovations-report.de\/html\/berichte\/studien\/bericht-103706.html\">funding<\/a> from the European Union to investigate how Open Source can be used as a development tool.<\/p>\n<p>The new group is called FLOSSInclude.  The group&#8217;s name is based on the acronym <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"FLOSS\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FLOSS\">FLOSS<\/a>, 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&#8217;s project is to expand on earlier work done by the <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"FLOSSWorld\" href=\"http:\/\/flossworld.org\">FLOSSWorld<\/a> study which brought together global perspective and expertise to comment how Open Source software can benefit countries and global organizations.<\/p>\n<p>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:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>United Nations University\u2019s Maastricht Economic and social Research and training center on Innovation and Technology (<a target=\"_blank\" title=\"UNU-MERIT Open Source\" href=\"http:\/\/ccg.merit.unu.edu\/\">UNU-MERIT<\/a>) at the University of Maastricht  UNU-MERIT (the United Nations University &#8211; 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.<\/li>\n<li>The Netherlands (<a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Netherlands Open Source\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ccg.merit.unu.edu\/\">http:\/\/www.ccg.merit.unu.edu\/<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain (<a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Spain Open Source\" href=\"http:\/\/www.urjc.es\/\">http:\/\/www.urjc.es\/<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Fundaci\u00f3n para el Desarrollo de la Ciencia y Tecnolog\u00eda en Extremadura, Spain (<a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Spain Open Source\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fundecyt.es\">http:\/\/www.fundecyt.es<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Canonical, UK (<a target=\"_blank\" title=\"UK Open Source\" href=\"http:\/\/canonical.com\/\">http:\/\/canonical.com\/<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Fundaci\u00f3n Via Libre, Argentina (<a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Argentina Open Source\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vialibre.org.ar\/\">http:\/\/www.vialibre.org.ar\/<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>University of Western Cape, South Africa (<a target=\"_blank\" title=\"South Africa Open Source\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uwc.ac.za\">http:\/\/www.uwc.ac.za<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre for Excellence in ICT, Ghana (<a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Ghana Open Source\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aiti-kace.com.gh\/\">http:\/\/www.aiti-kace.com.gh\/<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>IT for Change, India (<a target=\"_blank\" title=\"India Open Source\" href=\"http:\/\/www.itforchange.net\/\">http:\/\/www.itforchange.net\/<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Sarai, India (<a target=\"_blank\" title=\"India Open Source\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sarai.net\/\">http:\/\/www.sarai.net\/<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Open Institute \/ KhmerOS, Cambodia (<a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Cambodia Open Source\" href=\"http:\/\/www.khmeros.info\/\">http:\/\/www.khmeros.info\/<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>China Education and Research Network (CERNET), China (<a title=\"China Open Source\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cernet.edu.cn\/\">http:\/\/www.cernet.edu.cn\/<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is yet another step towards more pervasive use of Open Source globally.<br \/>\nTo compete globally US companies will need to acknowledge and accept the Open Source movement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lightsocial_container\"><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fformtek.com%2Fblog%2Fopen-source-1-million-to-advance-global-adoption%2F&amp;title=\" 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