In the remote neighborhood of Nuevo Amanecer, there is no wireline phone service or cable TV. One thing the residents of Nuevo Amanecer can count on, however, is access to internet connected personal computers, thanks to their local infocenter.
In the struggle to make information technologies available to the world's majorities, Venezuela on 9 April 2011 hosted the Latin American Festival of Open-Source Software Installation (FLISOL). This image gallery presents a brief glimpse at FLISOL's freeware ideology and methodology, as well as insight into how government-financied initiatives can serve to overcome the private information of information technologies.
By Tamara Pearson – Venezuelanalysis.com, Jul 15th 2009
The Venezuelan government and a grassroots technology movement here are both promoting the use and creation of open source (free) software, so it's no surprise that software tyrant, Microsoft, is lambasting Chavez.
