Open Source Software and Civil Society
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
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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Hello Eli Malinsky You can read my paper written for an undergraduate course. The title is Volunteerism, public information, and the open regulation of the information society. unpublished except on the web at this URL http://www.webpagex.org/ lawvolinternet.htm I quote some of the books by scholars probably on this list serve in this paper. Open source is only briefly described but is brought through a filter of Lessig's "Code" and his biased views as I see him. He is lawyer who jumped on the Internet bandwagon IMHO But then I would say most lawyers of technology who concentrate on Intellectual property these days are useless. More important to my thesis in that paper is that the Internet will always remain a volunteer run network thus a piece of civil society. On 29-Jul-06, at 10:46 AM, Eli Malinsky wrote:
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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Peter Timusk, B.Math statistics (2002), B.A. legal studies (2006) Carleton University Fall 2006 Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa. just trying to stay linear. Read by hundreds of lurkers every week.
Dear Eli, I've got an article in Information Technology and International Development (ITID), published by MIT Press, that you might find helpful: Cogburn, D.L. “Diversity Matters, Even at a Distance: Evaluating the Impact of Computer-Mediated Communication on Civil Society Participation in the World Summit on the Information Society” Information Technology and International Development. (Vol. 1, Issue 4, Summer, 2004). There are some other working papers published by the SSRC Civil Society and IT project: http://www.ssrc.org/programs/itic/it_civil_society/ Hope that this helps. Keep well. Cheers, Derrick Prof. Derrick L. Cogburn School of Information Studies and Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs Syracuse University 346 Hinds Hall Syracuse, NY 13244-4100 Phone: +1.315.443.5441 Fax: +1.315.443.6886 http://www.cotelco.net/~dcogburn http://www.cotelco.net On Jul 29, 2006, at 10:46 AM, Eli Malinsky wrote:
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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