Last years' session about open source for social inclusion talked about bridging the digital divide. The main question was how users can become 'digital citizens' that make well-informed choices about the kinds of technology they use for processing information, instead of mere end-users of technology. This year we will focus on specific instances of social inclusion, like ICT for development, the participation of women in technology. Some issues we raised and touched upon last year will be discussed further this year, such as: - What groups are we talking about when we say "social inclusion"? - What happens when public institutions work with non-open standards and software and present proprietary tools into the de facto standard for citizens? - How can you avoid that open source becomes "a poor man's Windows"? - What is the relationship between the ICT business and non-profit sector, and how can stronger relations be forged to further cooperation?
ICT for development and the participation of women in technology, Yuwei Lin - Topic: Participation of women in F/OSS world.website: www.ylin.org Soenke Zehle - Topic: "Soweto 1976-2006: Reapproaching the Genealogy of Contemporary Info-Politics"article on Metamute: http://www.metamute.org/node/5598. Rishab Aiyer Ghosh - Topic: FLOSS and developing countries: initial results of studies from FLOSS World, an EU project involving partners in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe, including a first "global map" of FLOSS developers based on an analysis of 60k+ developer IDs.website: www.dxm.org. Arjan de Jager - Topic: experiences of Eacoss or development of Care 2X (a Health Management Information System). website: www.iicd.org.
speaker(s):
Yuwei
Lin,
Soenke
Zehle,
Rishab
Aiyer Ghosh,
Arjan de
Jager