[Freegis-list] Open Source in Developing Nations

[Roger Longhorn]

F.Y.I. from the Information for Development (i4d) news list this week.

Are these the countries/regions most ready to adopt open source GIS as 
well? I would have thought that the size of the Indian market for GIS alone 
would warrant an national-level initiative on their part to finally divorce 
them from dependence on ESRI, et al.

Regards

Roger Longhorn
ral at alum.mit.edu

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<http://www.i4donline.net/news1.asp?fol_name=Tech&file_name=Tech27&get_pic=Tech&p_title=News>Insurance 
majors in India to shift to Linux
In India, three of the four government-owned general insurance majors
- National Insurance Co, United Insurance and New India Assurance,
have decided to use Linux as the backend operating system on
which will run their core insurance solutions.
<http://www.i4donline.net/news1.asp?fol_name=News1&file_name=news235>http://www.i4donline.net/news1.asp?fol_name=News1&file_name=news235

Now a television programme on open source!
The South Africa-based 'Go Open Source' campaign is filming the
world's first television series dedicated to open source software.
<http://www.i4donline.net/news1.asp?fol_name=O_Source&file_name=src40>http://www.i4donline.net/news1.asp?fol_name=O_Source&file_name=src40


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