Free Software, Open Access Repositories and Open Hardware for the Development

Vucic, Vedran (2006) Free Software, Open Access Repositories and Open Hardware for the Development. Beyond Tunis.

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Abstract

In many developing countries and regions we see tremendous efforts to foster economic growth. Indeed, those countries are affected by huge discrepancies in access to social welfare and sometimes to basic needs for their population. Thus, freedom of innovation and follow-on innovation, access to information and knowledge become an important factor in fostering economic growth in developing countries so developers do not need to reinvent the wheel in solving each problem.

Keywords:	free software, development, information society, open hardware
Subjects:	B. Information use and sociology of information. > BE. Information economics.
ID Code:	7345
Deposited By:	Vucic, Vedran
Deposited On:	05 October 2006
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[1] Eric von Hippel, Democratizing Innovation, The MIT Press, Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology, 2005

[2]Jamil Khatib, Free Chips for All, IBM developer works, Open source library, pp. 2, August 2000

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