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Contact:
Claudia Monlouis
Wednesday, November 03, 2004 - Beginning tomorrow, Thursday, November 4,
2004 Information technology professionals will participate in a two-day Open
Source Business Seminar highlighting how various software models can assist
organisations in meeting their developmental goals.
Dr. Cletus Bertin, Deputy Director of Public Sector Reform with responsibility
for Information Technology (IT) and E-government, said that the seminar would
aim to foster awareness of various software models while addressing issues
surrounding software licenses.
“One of the action points adopted at the World Summit in Geneva in December
2003, was that all countries would try as best to promote awareness of the
possibilities offered by different software models, the means of their creation;
and that includes proprietary, open source and free soft ware in order to
increase competition, freedom of choice and affordability, and therefore enable
all stakeholders to evaluate which solution best meets their needs”, Dr. Bertin
said.
Dr. Bertin informed that the seminar would pool from research, which reflected
current trends for open source software models: “Open source model says, while
the person who developed the application still retains his intellectual property
rights, he still allows free use or access of the software, and more so, that
persons around the world could modify and redistribute; that’s really a model of
sustainable development in terms of software distribution”.
Local participants will be joined by experts from Cuba, Trinidad & Tobago and
Martinique, who will draw experiences of using open source software in the
Spanish, French and English speaking territories. The two day workshop will be
conducted at the NIC Conference Centre.
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