[Air-l] Open Source Software and Civil Society

[Charlie Lowe]

Eli wrote,

"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?"

You might try talking with the CivicSpace community over in their forums.

http://civicspacelabs.org/home/civicspace

CivicSpace is an open source content management system for use by 
non-profits and grassroots civic action organizations which grew out of 
Deanspace (see Jon Lebkowsky's "Deanspace, Social Networks, and 
Politics": 
http://extremedemocracy.com/chapters/Chapter%2017-Lebkowsky.pdf). Even 
if they don't know of any research, I know that the project leaders 
would be keen on learning about anything you come up with.

Charlie Lowe
Department of Writing
Grand Valley State University