Free Software & Open Access for Development: Outstanding debt in Latin America
summary
Fundación Vía Libre frames Latin America with concrete stakes: 40% of people live under the poverty line and 55% of children under 15 are below it. Examples of policy and deployment appear: a Santa Fe law mandating free software, Uruguay’s CEIBAL/one‑laptop‑per‑child project, and Argentina’s Conectar Igualdad that delivers millions of laptops (some left in storage then later distributed). Work on blocking insecure electronic voting and resisting street facial‑recognition rollouts shows what actually changes.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Intro
- 7:30History of Free Software
- 9:00Free Software Law
- 10:30State Role in Development
- 11:35Public Policy
- 13:00Intellectual Property Laws
- 14:10WTO Intellectual Property
- 17:40Intellectual Property Debate
- 21:05Free Software
- 23:50Coalitions
- 28:55Digital Divide
- 32:30WIDA
- 34:35Nonprofit communities
- 37:35Electronic voting
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