Information literacy kenya national commission for unesco. Freewat free and open source software tools for water resource management is an horizon 2020 project financed by the eu commission under the call water innovation. Comparison of opensource operating systems wikipedia. Lets take a look at a few affordable and stress free open source software tools to help students and teachers make learning fun and stress free. Winidams is a software package for the validation, manipulation and statistical analysis of data, developed by the unesco secretariat in cooperation with experts from various countries. Unescos hope initiativeproviding free and opensource. Free and open source software for development unesco. The complete opensource and business software platform. Read the fascinating and inspiring stories weve collected about how open source is influencing education at all levels.
This is a list of free and opensource software packages, computer software licensed under free software licenses and opensource licenses. The unesco s hydro open source software platform of experts hope is a free andor open source software platform, targeting experts that can assist african water authorities, teachers, university lecturers and researchers to elaborate water management models. With nextcloud you can easily access and store data in the data center you trust, sync data among various devices, and share your data for collaboration purposes. The free software directory fsd is a project of the free software foundation fsf. Oss watch provides tips for selecting open source, or for procuring free or open software.
We thrive on community collaboration to help us create a premiere resource for open source software development and distribution. Free and open source software providing a wide range of tools and processes for creating, exchanging, and sharing interoperable software and solutions efficiently and effectively. Unesco hackathon in vietnam on 14 october, 2018 bringing together forward thinking citizens with innovators, hackers, scientists, and makers and to create open source apps and games that help journalists to monitor and leverage data, scientific knowledge and information relating to climate change. Free accounting software that processes daytoday transactions, monitors financial data, and also provides reporting and analytical tools. The cataloged projects are often able to run in several other operating systems. The initiative arose in response to a recognized need to make free and or opensource waterresources software more widely accessible to africas water.
Proprietary and free and open source software unesco digital. Unescos hydro free andor open source software platform. Free and opensource software foss is an umbrella term for software that is simultaneously considered both free software and opensource software. Boosting its value for europe freewat main result is an open source and public domain gis integrated modelling environment the freewat platform for the simulation of water. Free and open source software, open data, and open standards in the. Information literacy empowers people in all walks of life to seek, evaluate, use and create information effectively to achieve their personal, social, occupational and educational goals. Nextcloud server is a free and open source server software that allows you to store all of your data in a server of your choosing. Free and open source software, open data, and open standards. The free and open source software foss model provides interesting tools and processes with which women and men can create, exchange, share and. Freewat project free and open source software tools for water resource. Foss free and opensource software allows the user to inspect the source code and provides a high level of control of the software s functions compared to proprietary software. The idea that a community of developers are happy to work on a piece of software usually for no money for literally years seems ludicrous, and speaks to the passion that people have for making technology for the benefit of everyone.
Open education blog open software open office productivity suite open source applications open source initiative open source software licenses open standard requirement for software sparc scholarly communication unesco free and open source software portal utah open sourceware alliance agriculture, animals, earth and environment. Free open source windows database enginesservers software. The initiative arose in response to a recognized need to make free and or open source waterresources software more widely accessible to africas water. List of free and opensource software packages wikipedia. Where not all of the versions support a feature, the first version which supports it is listed. V8 on the important role which free and open source software foss can play in enabling access to information and knowledge, this document provides an. Most foss licenses also include a kind of legal golden rule that requires any changes, such as fixes and enhancements, to be released under the same license. Open source software feels like an anomaly in todays corporate tech world.
What is free software and why is it so important for. Sage is a free open source mathematics software system licensed under the gpl. Open source wap and sms gateway kannel is a compact and very powerful open source wap and sms gateway, used widely across the globe both for serving trillions of short messages sms, wap push service indications and mobile internet connectivity. It is also a gateway to resources related to free software. The symposium will explore how unesco s international hydrological programmes ihp hydro open source software platform of experts hope play a concrete role in achieving the sdgs by providing a free and open alternative to the commercially specialized engineering software in the field of hydrology such as conjunctive water management etc. Open source software designed to manage, analyze, share and learn from large amounts of information in datacentric companies. The unesco free software portal gives access to documents and websites which are references for the free softwareopen source technology movement. Sourceforge is an open source community resource dedicated to helping open source projects be as successful as possible. From complete operating systems like gnu, to over 5,000 individual programs and tools listed in the fsf unesco free software directory. Sages mission is to create a viable free open source alternative to magma, maple, mathematica and matlab. It combines the power of many existing open source packages into a common interface. Software that fits the free software definition may be more appropriately called free software.
Free open source software foss, sometimes also called just open source or free software, is software that is licensed to be free to use, modify, and distribute. Unescocipisoros eurasian conference on promoting free. Freewat free and open source software tools for water. It catalogs free software that runs under free operating systemsparticularly gnu and linux. Sourceforge, for one, has millions of downloads each day. Frequently answered questions open source initiative. Developer documentation developer books developer collections security information articlesreports associations hands on initiatives. Fsd has been used as a source for assessing the share of free software.
The iheocw educational resources are organized in a course format which contains the noninteractive free parts of ihe courses to form a coherent set of educational materials that allow for free online selfstudy. The free and open source software conference is jointly organized by the communication and information research center circ at sultan qaboos university squ and the information technology authority ita. The section choosing a license at the civic commons wiki may be useful, and you can learn more about open source licenses from, section 3. Unescos hope initiativethe hydro free and or opensource platform of. Come and join us in helping apache openoffice to thrive. Schoolforge and sourceforge are good places to find, create, and publish open software. In particular, unesco will cooperate with the ministry on the implementation of a free and open source software policy.
Millions of people around the worldincluding entire governmentsare now using free software on their computers. These tables compare free software opensource operating systems. Unesco hackathon in vietnam open data and open science. Today, free software is available for just about any task you can imagine. Open science is the movement to make scientific research and data accessible to all.
The free and open source software foss model provides interesting tools and processes with which people can create, exchange, share and exploit software and knowledge efficiently and effectively. This publication, currently available only in russain, provides teachers and employees of museums and libraries with practical recommendations on the use of free and open source software foss in order to improve the professional ict capacities of their institutions. Unesco and fossasia share a belief in the tremendous potential of free and open source software and the open source community to share ideas, create knowledge and develop innovative solutions to advance peace and sustainable development. Unesco cipisoros eurasian conference on promoting free open source software foss, dushanbe, tajikistan, 67 july 2007. Open source software for preprocessing gis data for hydrological models. This document explains briefly the terms related to free and open source foss and proprietary software. Lal bahadur chouhan, ais student 20082010 has prepared his dissertation entitled open source software oss for library management a study under my guidance for partial fulfillment for the award of associateship in information science, a two year post. It includes practices such as publishing open scientific research, campaigning for open access and generally making it easier to publish and communicate scientific knowledge.
Unesco and the league of the arab states department of information and library developed an arabic enabled version of cdsisis for windows. Free and open source software foss unesco digital library. Micro cdsisis is an advanced nonnumerical information storage and retrieval software developed by unesco since 1985 to satisfy the need expressed by many institutions, especially in developing countries, to be able to streamline their information processing activities by using modern and relatively inexpensive technologies. Open source solutions are improving how students learnand how instructors teachin communities around the world. The free and open source software foss model provides interesting tools and processes with which women and men can create exchange, share and exploit software. Unesco and the uruguayan ministry of foreign affairs signed a memorandum of understanding on the occasion of the free and open source software. Software is our heritage software is fragile unlike words carved in stone it can be deleted or get corrupted software is the key to access information and a fundamental part of human heritage software heritage preserves software source code for present and future generations we are building the universal software archive we collect and preserve software in source code. The ministry of foreign affairs has the political will and appropriate skills to contribute to the progressive advancement and the implementation of a more democratic information system, promoter of national industry and sovereignty. The educational community has discovered open source tools in a big way. Like our students, open source learning software has grown up since that time.
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