Nowadays, poverty in the world is not just a specific problem of the so-called Third World Countries. They are also more developed nations such as the United States of America, which has a poverty rate of around 18%. Portugal obviously can not escape the statistics and the latest figures were estimated at more than 19%.
The reasons for this have accentuated poverty various causes ranging from natural disasters, wars, religion, economic policies and certainly many others.
But regardless of these and other causes, which naturally accrue and accelerate poverty levels around the world, there's certainly lots of ideas and initiatives that can be mobilized in order to curb this phenomenon, destructive and disruptive of all mankind.
And between these ideas and following the adage that "if they see that a man hungry, give him not eating for a day, teach him to fish before, that they feed to the rest life ....", initiatives that will surely bring pharaohs future not just today and tomorrow. Do not just bring food and other essentials to people in need around the world. It is urgent that new generations are taught to the future and that it can be "open." That is, all the software tools that are taught in the public domain, or the level of teaching, research the same business, so that citizens, businesses and nations are not foreclosed to technologies owned by a single entity in the world.
And among the many initiatives that have mobilized thousands and even millions of citizens around the world, stands out the OLPC
One Laptop Per Child "/ A Laptop (per child), whose mission is to create educational opportunities for children around the world and especially the poorest of the world, giving each student a planet Laptop , designed with Open Office software and content collaborative , cheerful, funny and self-enabled learning and off online. This is one of those projects whose return only if you can wait here for at least a decade, but the data are released for new generations flourish empowered to deal with a
or laptop PC systems and free software. Obviously Linux is the operating system selected, based on Fedora Linux Open - Source . And adopt Linux and open source is more important than you might think at first glance. It means above all a new approach to development methodologies, offering know-how and accessibility of their own, for innovative products and services and free.
result of these initiatives, which had its birth in
MIT
, and Nicholas Negroponte (nicknamed "Paladin of the digital age), there are already many great Linux projects around the world in the area of education will, some of which stand out for being the most relevant: Brazil invited tenders for the supply of 150,000 "
- educational
- laptops" so that the One Laptop per Child project, where a primary requirement is "GNU / Linux operating system "( http://webeduc.mec.gov.br/ - In Portuguese). Republic of Macedonia, which has deployed 180,000 Ubuntu Linux
- in computer environments " thin client " . Government officials of Kerala , using only free software that runs on the Linux platform (computer education). Began with programs in government, aided colleges.
- In Indiana (USA) 22.000 students have access to jobs Linux in its secondary schools.
- In Germany, 560,000 students and school supplies in the process of migrating to Linux .
- By 2009 all computers in Russian schools estãoa run on Linux operating system and Open
- Office. the 28 states of India there are plans to distribute
- laptops for students number more than 100,000 systems with Linux . (Note - those statistics and those that follow as well as the chart above, were obtained from the website:
How Linux Can Help Reduce Poverty ), which also gives tí ter this "post". (FGonçalves.).
[Computer
OLPC initiative ] - This is not Laptop behind the Portuguese Magellan (who was born the idea of starting OLPC with Project Intel Classmate, which it joined Microsoft with its Windows XP). And
Linux can also play a crucial role in government offices, government departments and even the United Nations public and private companies, with significant advantages, both in terms of innovation capacity present and future, and even significantly reducing the costs of adopting new technologies, while still ensuring the continuous updates and further automation of services.
Especially in the third world and developing nations, this option can play a vital role in the legalization of software and operating systems and particularly the drastic reduction the licensing of Linux systems and collaborative tools and office, available on "open
- source." It is also important to note that, whether new facilities or even software collaborative diverse, similar to what is being used in school programs mentioned above, may be obtained through the model "open - source" and thus save foreign exchange of nations that would otherwise have as a target of multinational software technology sector, contributing further to regional disparities and extreme poverty. There are numerous stops in adoptions of computers with Linux , which are directly stimulated by various Governments of countries, irrespective of their stage of development:
The city of Munich is migrating its 14.000 "
desktops
[Computer
OLPC initiative ] - This is not Laptop behind the Portuguese Magellan (who was born the idea of starting OLPC with Project Intel Classmate, which it joined Microsoft with its Windows XP). And
Linux can also play a crucial role in government offices, government departments and even the United Nations public and private companies, with significant advantages, both in terms of innovation capacity present and future, and even significantly reducing the costs of adopting new technologies, while still ensuring the continuous updates and further automation of services.
Especially in the third world and developing nations, this option can play a vital role in the legalization of software and operating systems and particularly the drastic reduction the licensing of Linux systems and collaborative tools and office, available on "open
- source." It is also important to note that, whether new facilities or even software collaborative diverse, similar to what is being used in school programs mentioned above, may be obtained through the model "open - source" and thus save foreign exchange of nations that would otherwise have as a target of multinational software technology sector, contributing further to regional disparities and extreme poverty. There are numerous stops in adoptions of computers with Linux , which are directly stimulated by various Governments of countries, irrespective of their stage of development:
The city of Munich is migrating its 14.000 "
desktops
- " for a Linux distribution free. The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC ) has selected the O / S Linux
- to all its branches and agencies, totaling more than 20,000 locations. In January 2006, Venezuela entered into force a law mandating a transition (two years) to supply systems open ( "open -
- source ") on all public bodies. The Federal Labour Office of Germany migrated 13.000 jobs for openSUSE Linux
- . Despite all these examples, however few they are compared with the work that still needs to be done in order to sensitize and strengthen local governments and educating children in poor nations the world, to follow the adopting Linux software and
"open - source . This is certainly a step in the right direction to help reduce poverty, even if only a modest contribution to the Linux may give, contribute to a better future in the world. And it via the Linux
and communities "open - source, and developing activities based around the world (see open communities). Only then will only be worth be a citizen of the world, especially in less developed countries, and feel that moving towards a full integration in communities and economies becoming increasingly global. And finally answering the original question that began this article, of which I am believes so. Linux and systems "
open - source
" make all the difference when it comes to distributing free access to technology and the Internet and manage resources that cost money to taxpayers and that sound ; the few. Yes Linux, I believe, makes all the difference because it provides free tools to people and businesses, so they can continue productive and even innovative, current and future, especially when it comes to educating new generations and prepare them to deal with the new world order, a information about and knowledge society. Also, firms, regardless of which countries are located in the third, second or even first world, enjoying the advantages in joining the Linux operating system
and tools and software " open - source "since that the financial saving, much could be allocated to the richness of their own countries. And with that take advantage of resources for local development, which would otherwise elude them and they would certainly further fatten an increasingly narrow set of entities in a more developed country. For this and other reasons I do not understand the decision of the Government of Portugal, that is my country, to continue to perpetuate closed solutions based on Windows and MicroSoft
, referring only to ensure survival in the future, tying future generations of software and solutions through a proprietary and unique software manufacturer in the world. If it continues there will be inovaçãoe worth and creativity that we so hyped "
technological shock" ending
as the saying goes, "the mountain gave birth to a mouse ". And in this sense that Socrates Governance should consider and decidedly Portugal align with the real technological opportunities and synergies that Linux and
"open - source" may actually boost by taking our country from this "courtyard of swamp "in which we are keen not to leave. Francisco Gonçalves,
IT Architect
(Oct-2008). ______________________________________________________________ BTW: To further illustrate the reason for this article I leave you with one word that comes to us from Australia today and well
:
News: Australian State May Give Students Linux Laptops
14/10/2008 19:02 Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 14, @ 07:02 PM
from the keep-it-cheap dept
.
writes "The Australian Prime Minister's plan to equip high schools with 'one laptop per child' may go open source - OLPC . Kevin Rudd's $56 million digital revolution will include 'laptops [that will] run on an open source operating system with a suite of open source applications like those packaged under Edubuntu. This would include Open Office for productivity software, Gimp for picture editing and the Firefox internet browser.' So far this has been considered for New South Wales and I think other states may follow.". Extraído de SlashDot online (c) in
http://www.slashdot.com . ( News integral.).
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