OSS Resources
- UNDP primer on OSS in e-Government in the developing world.
- infoDev study outlining the use of OSS in developing countries.
- Open Source Initiative.
- Apache Foundation, which developed the Apache web server, a search engine known as “Lucerne,” an anti-spam product known as “Spam Assassin,” and a server known as “Geronimo.”
- Mozilla Foundation, which provides the Firefox web browser.
- Source Forge, a repository for approximately 130,000 open source projects
- Open Source Web Design (OSWD), a provider of some 1,600 free web design templates.
- Free Software Foundation (FSF).
- European Union inventory of Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) applications, covering a range of areas including e-Learning, workflow and workload management, healthcare, middleware, e-Justice and human resources
OSS Studies:
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, “Licensing Fees and GDP per capita: The Case for Open Source in developing Countries.”
Kenneth Liew, Computer World Singapore, “Open Source for Governments" (December 2005).
Open Source in E-government. Danish Board of Technology, October 2002.