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ScribeFire

June 26th, 2008

Uma ferramenta de grande utilidade para quem tem quer postar em vários blogues, além de servir como editor de texto.

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Universal Edit Button

June 24th, 2008

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A experiência colaborativa que vem da ALBA

June 23rd, 2008

Entre 30 de Setembro e 2 de Outubro próximos vai decorrer em Londres a Post-Expo2008, uma conferência internacional centrada na actividade postal.

No programa deste ano - e tanto quanto me consigo lembrar, pela primeira vez - um dos oradores convidados é Adalberto Mora, apresentado como “leader of ALBA’s projects initiative“.

E não resisto à tentação (o espírito é fraco) de transcrever a nota que introduz a sua intervenção:
“The presentation will cover the most important considerations and experiences encountered during the planning and implementation of a hybrid mail system in a collaborative environment between the national postal operators of Cuba and Venezuela. These experiences may be useful for other national postal operators in developing countries, particularly the philosophy of collaboration in the use of expertise, training personnel, design of software applications in open platforms and acquiring and installing technologies. Similar principals are being used in other projects, with investment in Venezuela standing at nearly $30 over three years“.

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Free Open Source Software for Judiciary System in Timor-Leste

June 6th, 2008

Daniela Cury is the UNDP Justice System Programme IT Coordinator

The local capacity to use ICT was held back by the high costs of both hardware and software. Most of the time, this cost was equivalent to several months’ wages for the average citizen;
The inexistent copyright protection in the country stimulated the dissemination of pirate software amongst The government, the Judiciary System included, constraining any investment in software;
Pirate software infected with viruses the Government´s network communication infrastructure;
Virus spread resulted in an exaggerated consumption of resources in the network; In some areas where the government had once invested in genuine copies of software, these were obsolete; The Government’s poor license management often resulted in software acquisitions of products that were discontinued;
Many systems were adopted and later replaced by totally different ones because of circumstantial better prices; The available knowledge of the technical staff was out of date and its upgrade depended of expensive training.

Having these issues in mind, the IT Department adopted a series of FOSS solutions to replace the most commonly used pirate softwares within the Judiciary System. The analysis of choices for FOSS applications was based on:

Similarities of the FOSS with software equivalents. The familiarity with similar software was an advantage for the user to smoothly shift to the FOSS equivalent and increase the speed of the dissemination;
Add value to the FOSS to stimulate user adoption. For example the development of a Tetum spell-check feature in the OpenOffice Suite, performed by the IT department;
Enabling localization for future translations of the systems in the local language. This is a necessary step for increasing the access to information for all citizens;
To modify or complement the solutions, or link software programs;
Access to free and online training;
Independence from expensive training packages;
The development and maintenance of an in-depth local ICT capacity building;
The reduction of the total costs of ownership;
Finally, the benefits of adopting FOSS solutions appear to be significant, however, Governments who would like to consider these, should also bear in mind that: it is necessary to invest time and resources in developing the local capacity to customize FOSS into particular needs and total development lead-times maybe longer.

Nevertheless, resources spent on FOSS stay in the country, developing the local IT Industry.

Retirado de UNDP Justice System Programme Newsletter April/May 2008

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Governo do Vietname visita Extremadura

October 6th, 2007

Funcionários do governo vietnamita, aproveitando a deslocação a Barcelona para participar na Conferência OpenOffice2007, visitaram a Extremadura para se informarem sobre as metodologias utilizadas pelas autoridades desta região autónoma do Estado espanhol na divulgação e formação em sistemas de código aberto.