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Open source software use sought in automated election system
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| A newly organized group of information technology professionals has called on
| government to use open standards and open source technology for the
| automation of elections in the Philippines.
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| [...]
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| Ito Gruet, who is an IT professional and member of the Advocacy for Open
| Systems in Elections, said the use of open standards or open source
| technology would promote "transparency" in the development of the automated
| election system.
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http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view/20080518-137318/Open-source-software-use-sought-in-automated-election-system
Recent:
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.
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| 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/
Brazilian banks look to Linux for ATMs
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| Brazilian banking giant Banco do Brasil this year is preparing to start a
| massive migration of one of the world’s biggest ATM fleets to the GNU/Linux
| operating system.
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http://www.atmmarketplace.com/article.php?id=9929&prc=12&page=42
Deploying KDE to 52 million young people
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| By the end of this year 29,000 labs serving some 32,000,000 students will be
| fully deployed and in active use.
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| By the end of next year (2009) those numbers will have swelled to 53,000 labs
| serving some 52,000,000 students.
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http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2008/04/deploying-kde-to-52-million-young.html
FOSS in Brazil: An important shift in leadership
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| This is big news for Brazil’s Free Software movement. One of the earliest
| public officials to champion FOSS in the world, Mazoni has earned a
| widespread reputation as an effective administrator and a skilled manager of
| FOSS migrations.
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http://fringethoughts.wordpress.com/2008/04/26/foss-in-brazil-an-important-shift/
Free Software in Brazil: Analysis & Interview with Marcos Mazoni
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| Given the vast institutional shifts to free software that have occurred, it
| is hard to imagine an economical way to rollback these projects — not only
| the changes within state-owned IT firms but the many other projects that
| Brazil has launched with free software: the massive Digital Inclusion
| project, the educational Linux projects as well as the general use of open
| source wikis, project management software, groupware, and so on.
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http://news.northxsouth.com/2008/05/05/interview-with-marcos-mazoni-new-head-of-free-software-implementation-in-brazil/
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