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[News] Asian Open Source Software Center Established to Promote Free Software

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Asian Open Source Software Center (AOSSC) Alliance Formed by 10 Countries and
Regions to Push Development and Adoption of Open Source in Asia

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| Ten Open Source Software Centers and related promotion organizations in Asian 
| countries and regions announce today the formation of Asian Open Source 
| Software Center (AOSSC) alliance/network to further promote the adoption, and 
| development of open source software (OSS) technology among Asian countries. 
| The participating countries and regions include China, Hong Kong, India, 
| Indonesia, Japan, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.     
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http://www.pr.com/press-release/155761


Recent:

In 2010 Asia and Latin America will be leading the use of free software,
according to a report carried out by researchers from Seville

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| Researchers from Seville -María Dolores Gallego, Salvador Bueno (of Pablo de
| Olavide University) and Paula Luna (University of Seville)- carried out a
| report, published in the magazine Technological Forecasting & Social Change,
| stating that the use of free software in South America and Asia will be
| around 70% in 2010, with a special relevance in the education sector.
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| This work, whose aim was to measure the increasing interest in free software,
| compiles the opinions of 18 experts, both from the academic as well as the
| professional fields, using the Delphi method. With this process, designed for
| reliable consensus-building among a panel of experts, experts had to answer
| two rounds of questions so as to define the future scenario for the
| implementation and spreading of free software until 2010.
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http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=57862&CultureCode=en
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