The last day of the Open Source Systems conference was dedicated to two workshops – one on free / libre and open source software (FLOSS) in education, and the other to the same in the mobile sector – denoted ‘mFOSS’. Led by Tony Wasserman, a professor at the Silicon Valley…
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Jean-Paul van Belle Jean-Paul outlined a number of barriers to the adoption of open educational resources (OERs) in Africa, and the body of research he and his team had done to validate this. They concluded that; Technology – Internet access is still an issue in many parts of Africa. OERs…
Comments closedCarol Smith opened her keynote talk by providing a brief history of her life with Google; she started as a journalism graduate, and now runs the Google Open Source Programs office, which oversees all open source code used internally at Google, ensuring compliance with the relevant open source licenses. Part…
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