Free/Libre/Open Source Software
Worldwide impact study: FLOSSWorld

Coordinator contacts:

MERIT, University of Maastricht

Rishab Aiyer Ghosh	Ruediger Glott

rishab@dxm.org	ruediger.glott@infonomics.nl

Flossworld Project

project reference: FP6-IST-015722

start date: May 1, 2005

duration: 24 months

project cost: €663,000

contract type: SSA

end date: April 30, 2007

project funding: €663,000

FLOSSWorld: Aims and objectives

Strengthen EU participation in global research

Build a global constituency of policy-makers and researchers on FLOSS issues

Enhance global awareness of FLOSS:

human capacity building

policy and use in government

technical, organisational and business differences between regional FLOSS projects

FLOSSWorld: 4 Track Workplan

1: Human capacity building: investigating Floss communities as informal skills development environments, with economic value for employment generation

skills development and employment generation: surveys of developers, employers and higher education insts.

FLOSSWorld: 4 Track Workplan

2: Software development: What are the regional and international differences- technical, organisatinal, business- between Floss projects across countries?

study differences between regions in development methods, participation in global community, links to industry, quality of local FLOSS software

FLOSSWorld: 4 Track Workplan

3: Government policy: What policies and behavior do governments around the world adopt towards Floss, open standards and interoperability?

survey attitudes, usage towards FLOSS and open standards in govt orgs.

FLOSSWorld: 4 Track Workplan

4: Workshop and working group activities to build and international research and policy development constituency: regional and international workshops and focused working groups from represented target regions.

FLOSSWorld: 4 Track Workplan

Research tracks 1-3 largely extend past EU studies to the 8 target countries

Core design/analysis done by EU partners

Regional issues, implementation addressed by regional partners

Easily extended to regions outside the consortium

FLOSSWorld: Geographic scope

Target countries (consortium partners):

Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, India, Malaysia, South Africa

Related countries (outside consortium) include:

Japan, Korea, USA (existing letters of support)

Other possible countries: Ghana, Uganda?

FLOSSWorld: Consortium - EU

Coordinator: MERIT, University of Maastricht
Leading survey research tracks

Oxford Internet Institute, Univ. of Oxford
Contributing to survey development/analysis

FUNDECYT, Junta de Extremadura, Spain
Leading workshop and collaboration track

Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Leading software project comparison track

FLOSSWorld: Consortium - regional

Argentina:

USUARIA, business IT user organization

Fundacion Via Libre

Brazil:

Natl. IT Institute (ITI), Office of the President of Brazil

University of Campinas

FLOSSWorld: Consortium - regional

Bulgaria:

Internet Society Bulgaria

China:

China Education & Research Network (CERNET): largest network in China, under Ministry of Education

China Standard Software Company: one of largest FLOSS companies in China

FLOSSWorld: Consortium - regional

Croatia:

Multimedia Institute MI2: hosts SummerSource developer workshop

Croatian Academic Research Network

India:

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing: largest IT lab in India, under Ministry of IT

FLOSSWorld: Consortium - regional

Malaysia:

MIMOS: govt-owned leading IT research organisation, author of national open source policy

South Africa:

Council for Scientific and Industrial Research: Africa's largest R&D organisation

University of the Western Cape

FLOSSWorld: External support

Not part of consortium, letters of support

India: National Assoc. for Software & Services Cos.

USA: Stanford University Inst. Econ & Policy Research

Japan: Mitsubishi Research Institute

Open Society Institute / Soros Foundations

UNCTAD:United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

FLOSSWorld: Observers

Observers, collaborators can participate in FLOSSWorld

No funding, but they can get interim results

They can conduct FLOSSWorld studies in their own countries / regions

FLOSSWorld will provide survey questionnaires, methodologies and analysis

FLOSSWorld: Observers

Australia: New South Wales govt

Chile: Centro de Software Libre

Taipei: OSSF / Academica Sinica

Colombia: SEAQ Servicios

Costa Rica: ALAS Libre

Iran: GNU/Linux Localisation project

Portugal: Madeira Tecnopolo

Spain: Catalan Govt

Uganda: Uganda Martyrs University

MySQL

More information

Coordinator: Rishab Ghosh, MERIT rishab@dxm.org

FLOSSWorld: http://flossworld.org

FLOSS Project report (2002)
http://flossproject.org/report/

THANK YOU

maika@fundecyt.es

FLOSSWorld intro - MERIDA

rg

2004-07-01T23:59:34

Maika Díaz

Maika Díaz