Comments on: President of Uruguay: OLPC bridges the Digital Divide http://blog.laptop.org/2009/04/08/americas-quarterly-olpc-bridges-the-digital-divide-in-uruguay/ Stories from around the world Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:11:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Laptop Fanatic http://blog.laptop.org/2009/04/08/americas-quarterly-olpc-bridges-the-digital-divide-in-uruguay/comment-page-1/#comment-5253 Laptop Fanatic Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:07:48 +0000 http://blog.laptop.org/?p=520#comment-5253 The Public Software Portal of Brazil works to aggregate all the initiatives with FLOSS inside of the Brazillian government. It also connects them with the community in that it’s open to anyone (companies, individuals, etc) who want to contribute or propose a new solution. It’s an important step forward when the citizens of a country can see and contribute to the technology and the source code used by their government to serve them. This is a level of transparency that, without doubt, has become a critical element of modern democracies. Many of the predictions in the existing roadmap have already started to come to fruition. For example, FLOSS has already begun to bridge the global digital divide. FLOSS continues to become more and more mainstream, despite the billion-dollar initiatives to marginalize it. Nice blog. Tom The Public Software Portal of Brazil works to aggregate all the initiatives with FLOSS inside of the Brazillian government. It also connects them with the community in that it’s open to anyone (companies, individuals, etc) who want to contribute or propose a new solution. It’s an important step forward when the citizens of a country can see and contribute to the technology and the source code used by their government to serve them. This is a level of transparency that, without doubt, has become a critical element of modern democracies.
Many of the predictions in the existing roadmap have already started to come to fruition. For example, FLOSS has already begun to bridge the global digital divide. FLOSS continues to become more and more mainstream, despite the billion-dollar initiatives to marginalize it. Nice blog.

Tom

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