The importance of FOSS for sustainable development
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UNESCO claims free and open source software supports the SDGs and has developed FOSS for 20 years (notably CVS Isis) while supporting FOSS in Asia for over 10 years. Activities include two to three hackathons that produced prototypes pairing open‑tech developers with indigenous participants to safeguard languages, a mobile coding initiative for youth, releasing all publications under open access as the first UN agency, promoting Internet Universality indicators, and preserving source code as heritage.
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