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Drive for change! Balthas Seibold opens FOSS Bridge EU-Vietnam conferences in Hanoi

Posted on November 14, 2008 in Freedom to innovate, Open Source & Asia, Open Source IT business by Balthas

More than 80 IT experts gathered on 14 November 2008 at “Drive for change”, a conference on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) held at Horison Hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam. Carried out as part of the FOSS-Bridge EU-Vietnam initiative, the event was organized by InWEnt of Germany, INRIA of France, and the Institute of Information […]

Posted in Freedom to innovate, Open Source & Asia, Open Source IT business Tagged Asia, business, business development, Capacity Building, EU, European Union, FOSS, FOSS Bridge, FOSS Bridge EU-Vietnam, INRIA, IOIT, IT business, matchmaking, open source, Southeast Asia, Vietnam, Vu The Binh Leave a comment

Over 40 IT-companies cross FOSS Bridge between Europe and Vietnam

Posted on November 19, 2007 in Freedom to innovate, Open Source & Asia by Balthas

Hanoi: A total of 42 agreements of cooperation were reached between Vietnamese and European business partners at the end of the first matchmaking event of the project “FOSS Bridge EU-Vietnam” for small and medium-sized IT enterprises in Hanoi, Vietnam. Satisfied by the success of the very first twinning event in the field of open source, […]

Posted in Freedom to innovate, Open Source & Asia Tagged Asia, business, business model, Capacity Building, EU, FOSS, FOSS Bridge, FOSS Bridge EU-Vietnam, IT business, Southeast Asia, twinning, Vietnam Leave a comment

EU-Vietnamese IT project launched at CeBIT 2007

Posted on March 15, 2007 in Freedom to innovate, Open Source & Asia, Open Source IT business by Balthas

On the 15th of March, Balthas Seibold presented a new European-Vietnamese Project at the “CeBIT” in Hannover, the world’s largest IT trade fair. He officially launched the project on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) cooperation at the LinuxForum. Until 2009 the twinning project will train Vietnamese software enterprises and developers and initiate joint software […]

Posted in Freedom to innovate, Open Source & Asia, Open Source IT business Tagged Asia, EU, FOSS, FOSS Bridge, FOSS Bridge EU-Vietnam, IT business, local IT sector, matchmaking, twinning, Vietnam Leave a comment

Indonesian Minister supports training camp of BMZ/InWEnt/UNDP

Posted on January 31, 2007 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, Open Source & Asia, Open Source IT business by Balthas

Over 140 IT professionals of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from more than 27 countries gathered at Sukabumi, Indonesia for a nine-day Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) conference and training camp called “ASIA SOURCE II” from 22 to 30 January 2007. The Indonesian Minister for Research and Technology, Mr. Kusmayanto Kadiman showed […]

Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, Open Source & Asia, Open Source IT business Tagged Asia, Asia Source, Asia Source 2, Asia Source II, BMZ, Capacity Building, commons-based peer production, FOSS, Free technology, Indonesia, it@foss, Kusmayanto Kadiman, open source, openness, Southeast Asia, Sukabumi, Tactical Tech, TTC, UNDP Leave a comment

FOSS@Work in Manila, Philippines

Posted on November 15, 2006 in Freedom to innovate, Open Source & Asia, Open Source IT business by Balthas

Over 50 participants from Southeast Asian countries explored the chances for economic and social development through Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) at the “first FOSS@Work International Conference-Workshop for Small-to-Medium Enterprises (SME) in the I.T. Industry”, held at the Heritage Hotel Manila, Philippines from November 12th to 15th, 2006. In his opening speech, Balthas Seibold […]

Posted in Freedom to innovate, Open Source & Asia, Open Source IT business Tagged APDIP, Asia, Capacity Building, CICT, Emmanuel Lallana, FOSS, it@foss, open source, Shahid Akhtar, SME, Southeast Asia, Teodoro Casino, the Philippines, UNDP, Vietnam Leave a comment

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    1. pdai on Peer-producing knowledge: a game-changer for development cooperation? – Question 5 of 10 on ‚learning by sharing’31/10/2021

      Building that collaboration may be difficult for some people. so the project that will be built will be constrained at…

    2. Balthas on About24/09/2019

      Dear Wahdan, here ist the source of the Quote from the letter of Jefferson: http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_8s12.html

    3. Balthas on Emerging Schools of Thought on Commons-Based Peer Production – New Article Out24/09/2019

      Dear Winda, of course you can thare the guides - all is under open licenses. See below. Just Name the…

    4. Wahdan Arum Inawati on About12/08/2019

      how quotation of the parts of the letter of Jefferson on knowledge and property?

    5. WINDA EKA SAMODRA on Emerging Schools of Thought on Commons-Based Peer Production – New Article Out04/08/2019

      Thank you for this nice guide.This really helped me, keep posting! can i share it?

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