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Northeast Free Software Meeting in Bahía will discuss the economic and social role of free software

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Presenting the free software model as a way to provide viable and sustainable access to new information technologies while encouraging the economic and social development of a region is part of the goals of III ENSL, the Northeast Free Software Meeting and the Fourth Bahia Free Software Festival, happening on May 29-30 at the campus of Bahia State University (UNEB) in Salvador, Bahia’s capital.

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Brazil is aggressively expanding their Telecentro program

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The Brazilian National Support Project for Telecentros (public computer labs with free, public Internet access) intends to support the deployment of 2 - 3,000 new Telecentros and towards achieving the goal of 10,000 active Telecentros by the year 2010. Almost all of the Telecentros are built using entirely free and open source software.

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Electronic Garbage Can Produce Marvels

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"PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, Apr 25 (IPS/IFEJ) - Using pieces from all sorts of useless equipment, students at the Computer Recovery Center in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre have put 1,700 computers into operation in three years..."

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Why the Free Software Movement had to get involved in the first Science and Democracy World Forum

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"...Nearly 300 delegates, coming from 18 countries on 4 continents, shared on the place that sciences and technologies have on the “march of the world”, on their evolutions and on the necessity of the emergence, on an international scale, of a network-space, which could put in prospects the working of the scientific insti

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fisl10: 10th International Free Software Forum - Call For Papers

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"One of the largest Free Software events in the world, the 10th edition of the International Free Software Forum called for papers. Proposals due on April 26th 2009..."

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Cuba will be the first to formally replicate Brazil’s free software model

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The Collaborative Network for Free and Open Software Latin American and Carib (RCSLA) is a network created at the end of 2005 by the United Nations Development Program and UFMG (Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil) to increase sharing of practical knowledge and experience in deploying free software governance plans in Latin America.

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Open source software in Brazil: too many projects to keep up with!

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The Brazilian free software movement is in such high gear that it is almost impossible to keep up on all the new developments and projects that are happening throughout the country. Brazil is larger in size than the continental United States and has a population of almost 200 million people.

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Digital Ombudsman, a Brazilian government free software project

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In Brazil, the adoption of free software in the public sector continues its unparalleled expansion. In the state of Paraná, the IT institution that maintains all of the state’s computer systems (CELEPAR), has developed a free software Ombudsman: OUV.

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KDE in nearly all public schools in brazil.

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Today I was in a public school near where I live for a interview with Nazareth, the coordinator of a social-inclusion project for the less afortunate kids in brazil, that live in 2 poor-communities: Alto do Coqueirinho and Bairro da paz.

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Open World Forum releases the 2020 FLOSS Roadmap

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The Brazilian government’s experience with FLOSS was chosen as one of the best real-world cases for the adoption of free software in the public sector. The case was presented by Professor Christiana Freitas, from the University of Brasília (UNB), and Corinto Meffe, coordinator of Brazil’s Portal do Software Público.

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Free Software at the 2009 World Social Forum in Belém, Brazil. Another World is Possible...

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"On January 26th and 27th, 2009, the Sciences and Democracy World Forum will be held in Belém (Brazil).

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Interview with Anahuac from KyaPanel

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KyaPanel is a panel to provide easy management in Gnu/Linux servers. Developed to increase the network administration, it supports mail management, samba management and many other features. The software was adopted by the federal and state government of Brazil and major companies from Latin America.
Read the interview conducted by North by South with Anahuac.

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A look at free software in Ecuador

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Marco Fioretti recently published an article (A look at free software in Ecuador) about his experiences at the Congress on Free Software and Democratization of Knowledge hosted in Quito, Ecuador. Rafael Bonifaz, a friend of North by South, is cited in the article talking about Elastix, a GNU/Linux distribution mostly developed in Ecuador.

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Take Back the Tech Campaign in Central America

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Today more than ever, it is important for women and girls to use technologies to improve their lives, especially in Central America.. In spite of this, there are amazing women from all the region, who write primarily about technology and who try to make a difference in the lives of women.

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Protecting sovereignty with free software is a good idea and the duty of governments, says Stallman

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When journalists and FOSS advocates explain why governments and corporations in the developing world are rapidly migrating to free software, a lot of focus is put on cost savings from licensing and removing the potential for liability from piracy within their organizations.

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