{"id":43,"date":"2006-04-25T14:09:24","date_gmt":"2006-04-25T14:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/?p=43"},"modified":"2006-04-25T14:09:24","modified_gmt":"2006-04-25T14:09:24","slug":"the_unu_on_open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/2006\/the_unu_on_open\/","title":{"rendered":"The UNU-IIST on open source software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things have been very quiet around here lately. I&#8217;m hard at work on my thesis and finishing up the semester, so things are probably going to stay fairly quiet for the time being.<br \/>\nBut, there&#8217;s always something. I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/business.newsforge.com\/article.pl?sid=06\/03\/31\/2032201\">this interesting article on open source software in the development context<\/a>. Pay special attention to the last two paragraphs about linking the open source community with IT people in developing countries. This captures my opinion exactly &#8211; open source is not just (and not most importantly) cheap software for developing countries, it also has the potential to raise awareness among a huge and influential global community of developers of the needs of developing countries to make sure that the tools needed are available and appropriate.<br \/>\nMake sure you visit the link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iist.unu.edu\/globaldesktop\/\">UNU-IIST<\/a> to get the whole picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things have been very quiet around here lately. I&#8217;m hard at work on my thesis and finishing up the semester, so things are probably going to stay fairly quiet for the time being. But, there&#8217;s always something. I came across &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/2006\/the_unu_on_open\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-icts","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p22Btc-H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}