Open Development : Beyond Proprietary Solutions
Information is power—this is not new—but information in the hands of activist citizen groups can determine the course of national development. Information technology, the open source system in particular, has begun to revolutionize the people-centered development movement, contributing to a phenome...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
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2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6114 |
| Summary: | Information is power—this is not new—but information in the hands of activist citizen groups can determine the course of national development. Information technology, the open source system in particular, has begun to revolutionize the people-centered development movement, contributing
to a phenomenon called open development.
The open source system enables
citizens to access resources that used
to be held only by experts in the form
of knowledge and influence. |
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