UNESCO promotes use of free software in Latin America and the Caribbean
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| UNESCO Office in Montevideo, Uruguay, in cooperation with the network of
| Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) in Latin America and the
| Caribbean, published the Guía práctica sobre software libre: su selección y
| aplicación local en América Latina y el Caribe (Guidelines on free software:
| how to choose it and apply it locally in Latin America and the Caribbean).
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http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=26405&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
Days ago:
The brazilian Election Supreme Court migrates 430 thousand voting machines to
GNU / Linux
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| The brazilian Election Supreme Court announced at April 4th 2008, that the
| 2008 elections at Brazil will use GNU / Linux electronic voting machines with
| software digital authentication.
|
| The Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (the brazilian Election Supreme Court),
| officially announced on April 4th, 2008, that the brazilian 2008 elections
| will use 430 thousand electronic voting machines migrated from VirtuOS and
| Windows CE to GNU / Linux and open source softwares for security and auditing
| defined by proper law.
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http://techforce.com.br/index.php/news/linux_blog/tse_migrates_to_linux
Linux Voting Machines Save US$ 8 Millions in Brazil
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| Brazilian Goverment will save US$ 8 Millions in election between 2008 and
| 2018. The economy is due to the use of Linux in the eletronic voting
| machines, made by Procomp-Diebold,
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http://www.brnews.info/index.php/2008/04/06/linux-voting-machines-save-us-8-milions-in-brazil/
Related:
UNESCO and Free Software
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| In 2001, as UNESCO begins to lend its support to the Free Software Movement,
| it is almost 18 years since we launched the movement and began developing the
| GNU operating system. We have come a long way.
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http://hrueda-isis.blogspot.com/2007/12/unesco-and-free-software.html
Source of the revolution
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| According to Ghosh, the notional value of Europe's investment in
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| free/libre or open source software (FLOSS) today is e22bn,
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| representing 20.5pc of the region's total software investment.
| Spending on OSS stands at e36bn and accounts for 20pc of software
| expenditure in the US.
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http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single8105
European spend on open source software hits 22bn Euros
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| Rishab Ghosh, a senior researcher at the UN University in Maastricht,
| will tell the Open Ireland conference in Dublin that the spend in the
| US on free/libre or open source software (FLOSS) stands at 36bn
| Euros and accounts for 20pc of software spend in the US.
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http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single7850
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