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OSS project scoops multilingualism award

02/06/2008  
Relevance: 7.86
Dwayne Bailey tells us that Translate.org.za was awarded the coveted Pan South African Language Board award for its contribution to multilingualism and nation building over the past decade. The award,‘Multilingualism and Nation Building: eBusiness Institution of the Decade', was awarded to the non-profit organisation for its long-running and ground breaking work in the area of multilingual software.
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Russia's Open Source Revolution

10/17/2008  
Relevance: 7.17
WHAT does Microsoft do when someone says: No, sorry, we do not want to use your software any more. If that someone is a small business operating in an increasingly cut-throat world, a great deal of pressure can be brought to bear on them to fall into line. But what if that someone is a whole nation, and that whole nation happens to be a world superpower with the resources and will to forge its own, alternative route to technological competitiveness? This is what has happened to Microsoft in Russia, and it all started with a school teacher. Back in 2007, Aleksandr Ponosov (pictured below right), the headmaster of a village school in Sepych, in the Perm region of Russia, was arrested for running unlicensed copies of Microsoft software on his school's computers.
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Munich Begins Migration Towards Linux

09/24/2006  
Relevance: 5.79
German governments and schools are beginning to consider open source technology[And in other news, Indiana has apparently become a nation in its own right. - dcparris]
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Linux matches across CIS

12/31/2007  
Relevance: 5.61
The first stage of developing the nation operating system in Uzbekistan on the basis of Linux has finished. The project has been initiated by the Uzbek agency on informatization and communication and the Center for training and supporting young programmers.
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Ghana pursuing open source policy - Minister

04/26/2007  
Relevance: 5.38
Government of the West African nation is developing an open source policy and has already implemented free software for its parliamentary systems.
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Promoting freedom of expression with OSS in Chad

08/18/2006  
Relevance: 5.37
Budding young journalists in the African nation Chad now have access to open source tools, thanks to Five Minutes to Midnight, a organization"devoted to promoting human rights and international issues among the world's youth."
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The Importance of Purity on the Linux Desktop

07/21/2008  
Relevance: 5.34
Well, the dog days of summer have begun to set in, so it's not too surprising that the Linux blogs were relatively quiet last week. Linux geeks across the nation were no doubt seeking refuge wherever they could -- it's hard to withstand flames on the blogs when you feel like you're aflame yourself!
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South African Government Adopts ODF (and not OOXML)

10/26/2007  
Relevance: 5.27
While many nations, agencies, cities, U.S. States and other governmental units have considered mandating the use of Open Document Format since Massachusetts announced its intention to do so in August of 2005, comparatively few have actually done so. Now, one of the early and consistent supporters of ODF has taken the plunge, and done so. That nation is the Republic of South Africa.
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Pakistan looks to free software

11/08/2006  
Relevance: 5.21
Often labelled as a nation of software pirates Pakistan is looking at free software as a way to transform its image and build local skills.
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1st Asian Nation to Adopt Open Software Standards

07/14/2007  
Relevance: 4.90
Japan has adopted a policy under which government ministries and agencies will solicit bids from software vendors whose products support internationally recognized open standards and thus becomes thefirst country in Asia to embrace the open software Standards.
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