Articles tagged ‘public-private-partnership’

OSS can be harnessed to its full potential to help build knowledge economies in developing countries.

OSS can break the cycle of red-tape and budget limitations hindering the effectiveness of government information services.

FOSS has helped revitalize the academic model of knowledge cultivation which is being adopted by many of today's information harvesters.

Private-Public Partnerships (PPPs) have the potential to create new promises or fulfill old ones. Open source PPPs are favorite vehicles for spurring ICT development in emerging economies. Today's efforts may be dramatically improved by learning from successful projects in other fields such as pharmacology and advanced technology development. Five principles for improving open source PPP projects are reviewed.

In developing countries, new business and government processes enabled for ICT can only be nurtured by using open source software.

Cheap PCs for the billions of digital have-nots are still expensive and, worse, are not designed for the people who need them most.

While the UK’s Office of Government Commerce (OGC) points to the savings possible using OSS and warns against high lifecycle costs of proprietary software, its cousin organization, the National Health Service (NHS), indulges in an expensive renewal of proprietary software licenses.

IBM, C-DAC and IIT-Bombay team up to invest Rs 50 million in an Open Source Software Resource Center (OSSRC) in India.

Linux For You’s editor, together with technologists Robert Adkins and Alolita Sharma, met Michael Tiemann, vice president, open source affairs, Red Hat, on his first visit to India in October 2004. Tiemann, with a long string of successes – from being the 23 year old developer of the GNU C++ compiler, to co-founder of a very successful software company Cygnus Solutions, is today part of Red Hat’s founding team and eager to push the benefits of open source to the global frontier. In this wide-ranging interview, Tiemann shares his vision, enthusiasm and entrepreneurial spirit.

Three IT powerhouses — IBM India, C-DAC and IIT-Bombay — entered into an alliance in October 2004 to set up the Open Source Software Resource Center (OSSRC), the first of its kind in India.