Re: SEMINAR-HELSINKI: Free/Libre and Open Source Software in the Developing Countries...

["Tai Purcell" <mufasa1@paradise.net.nz>]

This is a very good seminar especially for the small island developing
countries like those in the Pacific including my own country Samoa. Can you
please advice of any future seminars for free software. Free software is
what we need in our small countries with small economies, vulnerable ot
environmental hazards, small markets, and isolation from the rest of the
world. I am inspired by Dr Villanueva's passion of free software which is
what we need in this part of the world. I would love to participate in
another Free software seminar.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
To: <s-asia-it@apnic.net>
Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2003 8:44 PM
Subject: SEMINAR-HELSINKI: Free/Libre and Open Source Software in the
Developing Countries...


>
> OneWorld Finland <http://www.maailma.net> and KEPA
> <http://www.kepa.fi/english/> organise an International Seminar on
> Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) in Developing Countries
>
> Thursday, May 22nd , 2003
>
> At The Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration - Hanken
> <http://www.hanken.fi/hanken/eng/index.php?>
>
> Auditorium Maximum, II floor
> Arkadiank. 22, Helsinki.
>
> Free/Libre and Open Source Software in Developing Countries - advantages
and
> obstacles
>
> PROGRAMME
>
> 09.30 Opening of the Seminar
>
> 09.45 *Niranjan Rajani *(Researcher, Finland): Presentation of the report
/
> Free as in Education: Significance of Free/Open-Source Software for
> Developing Countries/
>
> 10.15 *Edgar Villanueva Nunez* (Congressman, Peru): /
> Legal and Other Experiences in Promoting FLOSS in Peru/
>
> 11.15 *Sinikka Sassi,* (Professor of network communication, Helsinki
> University) &* Seppo Koskela *(Analyst, Helsinki University):
> /Presentation of the Applied Linux Institute Project/
>
> 11.30/ Floor open for discussion/
>
> *12.30. - 13.30 Lunch* (Available in Hanken Lunch Room, or surrounding
> restaurants)
>
> 13.30 *Nico Coetzee* (Open Source Developer, South Africa):/
> Sustainable ICT Development in Africa - How FLOSS can help NEPAD/
>
> 13.50 *Fredrick Noronha* (Journalist, India):/
> LIBERATION TECHNOLOGY: What Free Software could do for Asia.../
>
> 14.20 *Cesar Brod *(/ /IT Manager, Brazil): /
> Free Software and regional development/
>
> 14.40 *Claudio Cesar Carvalho de Almeida* (Brasilian Bank for Social and
> Economic Development) /
> Free Software as a Policy/
>
> 15.00 /Floor open for discussion/
>
> /The Seminar is Free and Open for Public/
>
> The Report
>
> /Free as in Education:  //Significance of Free/Open-Source Software for
> Developing Countries /
>
> /*More information */
>
> About the research project and the seminar itself:/
> / juha dot rekola at kepa dot fi/
> / timo dot mielonen at maailma dot net/
> A/bout the Applied Linux Institute Project:
> seppo dot koskela at helsinki dot fi/
>
> The Speakers
>
> The Peruvian Congressman,* *
>
> *Dr. Edgar Villanueva Nuuez*
> <http://www.congreso.gob.pe/congresista/2001/evillanueva.htm>
>
> has recently become somewhat of a celebrity in the Free Software and Open
> Source communities as a result of his legislative efforts
> <http://www.gnu.org.pe/proleyap.html> favouring free software and his
highly
> publicized <http://www.linuxjournal.com//article.php?sid=6099>, well
> informed and eloquent response
> <http://www.aful.org/politique/perou/english/rescon_en.html> to a Peruvian
> Microsoft executive's letter
> <http://www.aful.org/politique/perou/english/alt2_ms_to_villanueva.html>
> <http://www.gnu.org.pe/mscarta.html>.
>
> *Niranjan Rajani *
>
> is the main author of the research "Significance of Free/Libre Open-Source
> Software for Developing Countries".
>
>
> *Cesar Brod* <http://brod.univates.br/>
>
> is presently the IT Manager in Univates University
> <http://www.univates.br/>, and one of the coordinators of the Free
Software
> Project of the State of Rio Grande do Sul and a member of the Linux Around
> the World initiative. Cesar Brod got first involved with GNU/Linux in 1993
> when he needed a "Unix" that he could use in his computer in order to
> emulate problems he was having in a System V based machine.
>
> *Fredrick Noronha*
>
> Goa (India)-based journalist, who is co-founder of Bytes For All
> <http://www.bytesforall.org/> - a collaborative venture studying the use
of
> IT and Internet for development in South Asia, and also founder member of
> India-Linux Users Group-Goa.
>
> *Nico Coetzee*
>
> a full time Open Source developer in South Africa, is always tinkering
with
> some obscure Open Source code, trying to make life a bit easier. It all
> started in 1995, just shortly after the official launch of Windows 95.
Since
> then he has started to focus on Perl development, because "it's simply the
> most flexible and easy to learn language out there...". In his research
> capacity, he looked at the Open Source movement in Africa, as well as what
> needs to change (from his perspective) in order for Africa to become a IT
> world player.
>
>
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