Hi, for FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Adoption in the Civil Society sector see the work by Gabriella Coleman, University of Chicago on The Politics of Open Source Adoption, NGO's in the Developing World www.ssrc.org/wiki/POSA/index.php?title=NGOs_in_the_Developing_World Such Report is part of the POSA Project (Politics of Open Source Adoption) lunched by the SSRC (Social Science Research Council). POSA aims at investigate on how the FOSS adoption is increasingly a matter of politics and public policy and how it is becoming embedded in political arenas and policy debates. www.ssrc.org/wiki/POSA/index.php?title=Main_Page You may also want to look at G. Caruso work on the WSF 2004 (World Social Forum) and the Politics of FOSS Adoption in the Global Civil Society www.ephemeraweb.org/journal/5-2/5-2caruso.pdf See also the UNDPs IOSN (International Open Source Network) www.iosn.net and the FOSS and CSOs Forum at http://foss4us.org/ In particular, Asia is moving fast ahead in the task of building bridges between non-profits and FOSS. In such regard see the LinuxWorld Philippines 2005, held in mid-September, and the initiative FOSS Road' held on October 2005, to promote utilization of FOSS in activities of public organizations, educational establishment and civil society actors. www.tacticaltech.org/fossroad If of any interest a meeting organized by the UN Secretariat and the UNCTAD will be held at United Nations Headquarter in NewYork on 29 August 2006, on the use of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in United Nations' programmes and at the UN itself. www.unctad.org/sections/wcmu/docs/site_ieb_notif08-06_en.pdf Cheers, Serena Tommasino "McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology" Faculty of Information Studies at The University of Toronto 39A Queens Park Crescent East, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2C3 http://www.utoronto.ca/mcluhan/ Quoting Eli Malinsky <elimalinsky@hotmail.com>:
Hi everyone,
After years of lurking I finally have my first question: Is anyone aware of
any research that addresses the experience of civil society organizations (aka nonprofits, NGOs, voluntary orgs, etc.) using open source software? Or
perhaps deals with the putative alignment between the "values" of open source and the values of civil society?
Much appreciated!
Eli Malinsky
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