[Air-l] question related to OS and governments

[Randolph Kluver (Assoc Prof)]

João, 
 
In relation to open source and government policy, you should check out Deborah Halbert's chapter on Open source in Asia.com: Asia Encounters the internet (Routledge Curzon).  Extensive legal and policy discussion of the issues developing countries face on this issue.  Also, you should look into China's moves with open source, especially in relationship to Linux.  The government in China is making a very concerted effort to move all government computers to open source computing. 
 
 

Randolph Kluver
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	-----Original Message-----
	From: João Martins [mailto:joao_martins at terra.com.br] 
	Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 8:51 AM
	To: air-l at aoir.org; discuss at opensource.mit.edu; sebastian.arnold at student.uni-augsburg.de; james at apdip.net; rsaroka at ciudad.com.ar; josafa at rocketmail.com
	Subject: [Air-l] question related to OS and governments
	
	
	Hello everybody 

	My name is João Martins and I am a post-graduated student in Communication (MA), 
	finishing a thesis about the social dynamics of Gnutella development. Now, I am working in a project for a doctorate in social sciences. My intent is to investigate the brasilian government investiments in Open Source. This scene, in my country, is becoming every day more clear to me, but I can't say the same thing about the internacional context of government aid in OS projects. My question is: did anybody here knows about any article related to that relantionship in any country? 

	Best regards 

	PS - Just to ilustrate this context in Brasil (f anyone becames curious...): recetlly, the brasilian congress starts a considerable investiment with the intention of stimulate the use of free software by a lot of public organs. The actions includes an investimet of R$ 6.3 milions (almost US$ 2 milions) in projects related to the concept of Free Software, besides the creation of a parliamentarian group related to the free software, during an event called "Free Software Week in the Legislative". 
	Did anyone knows about something like this in any other country? 
	
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	João Martins. joao_martins at terra.com.br
	Post graduated program in Communication 
	Fluminense Federal University 
	Rua Tiradentes, 148, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 
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