Como o GNU/Linux pode ajudar a reduzir a pobreza no mundo

Acabo de descobrir este interessante artigo no linuxhaxor.net, que foi escrito para o 2008 Blog Action Day, cujo tema era a Pobreza.

O artigo vai bastante na linha do que eu já havia escrito aqui n’OVigia há tempos atrás (Outubro de 2007), no entanto sendo mais recente apresenta mais alguns dados interessantes e mais uma vez vem mostrar-nos a todos como as políticas para a área das Tecnologias de Informação levadas a cabo no nosso país por este e anteriores governos, nos irão colocar na cauda dos sietemas e tecnologias de informação dentro de muito pouco tempo, com todos os custos inerentes a essas más decisões.

How Linux Can Help Reduce Poverty | LinuxHaxor.net

There are other large scale adoptions of Linux in Education Institute:

• Brazil opened a request
  for proposals for 150,000 “educational laptops” for it’s Um Computador
  por Aluno project; where one of the primary requirement is “GNU/Linux
  operating system” (http://webeduc.mec.gov.br/ – Portuguese)

• Republic of Macedonia deployed 180,000 Ubuntu running, thin client computers.

• Government officials of Kerala,
  use only free software, running on the Linux platform, for computer
  education, starting with the 2,650 government and government-aided high
  schools.

• In Indiana, 22,000 students has access to Linux Workstations at their high schools.

• In Germany, 560,000 students and school stuff migrate to Linux.

• By 2009 all computers in Russian schools are to be run on Linux.

• One of India’s 28 states plans to distribute 100,000 Linux laptops to students.

• The City of Munich migrates its 14,000 desktops to a free Linux distribution.

• Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) deployed Linux in all of its 20,000 retail branches.

• In January 2006, law in Venezuela went into effect, mandating a two year transition to open source in all public agencies.

• The Federal Employment Office of Germany has migrated 13,000 public workstations to OpenSuse.

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