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Nearly 2,000 applications were filed for the Knight Foundation 2009 News Challenge. As you may recall, the Knight Foundation has committed to fund $25M over five years to projects that: Use or create digital, open-source technology as the code base Serve the public interest Benefit one or more specific geographic communities That is a lot…

It would be a bit of a stretch to claim that Barack Obama won the 2008 election because his website ran open source software while John McCain’s ran on proprietary software. But what is not a stretch at all is that Barack Obama’s campaign built a powerful synergy between grass-roots politics and grass-roots technology, while…

I just learned about a link that’s apparently been live for a while, but it’s new to me: http://sony.com/linux. Following that link one level to Television you’ll see that SONY has been embedding GPL software into their state-of-the-art televisions since 2003. Fantastic! Maybe it is a good time after all to think about getting a…

These guys (SciPhone) really REALLY ought to get together with some open source developers. Looks like a great product, but it’s almost 100% certain that their software stinks. Is it simply that they don’t believe that hackers will come togther to write software for their hardware? Do they not know how to build such a…

All through last week, I spent my time in Ghana at the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Center for Excellence in ICT ( AITI-KACE ) in Accra. It has been an incredibly refreshing experience for me, personally, and for the hundreds of students, developers, businesses, bankers and educators that are participating in the forum. The I-Week has…

Transparency is key in enabling people to participate in the creation of wealth and well-being in society. In the past decade, free and open source software (FOSS) has become one of the major catalysts in increasing transparency by lowering the barrier to access the best software technologies. Software Freedom Day (SFD) celebrates this important role…