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Story: Government body says developing countries need open source

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I am a firm believer in the notion that the more a society participates in it's adoption of change --- the more apt the society will become to change --- thus achieving with each cycle a more adaptive society.

Open-source is a model that promotes self-participation and appears most obvious as a choice candidate for developing countries seeking almost any type of modernization.

That said, I dare say developing countries should appear to naturally gravitate towards open-source with or without the push of an outside convening party.

This is a good thing! For a countries' information infrastructure, like it's political system, should be built by it's people for it's people and should not depend upon 3rd party products that are inevitably influenced by developed markets --- which are of course very different geo-politically than that of the developing countries' emerging market. This especially holds true today as it is likely a countries' government and hence it's political system will depend upon a modern information infrastructure.

The future progress of a developing country will do well by open-source --- for in the world of information, open-source is itself a developing country with deep historical lineage born within the first animal to record information for all to see.

Gabriel Kent
http://www.gabrielkent.com

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