1. Enabeling aid and business in practice FOSTRADA at HiA August 21 th 2006 by Knut Yrvin For free use. Credit the author

2. What 1.Sharing knowledge about reuse 2.Doing fun and important projects 100$ Laptop and Greenphone 3.Growth in FOSS development 4.Removing the obstacles hindering FOSS in business

3. Reuse of equipment Thin clients > 160 Mhz, 32 MB Diskless workstations > 800 Mhz, 256 MB Workstation > 800 Mhz, 256 MB, > 3 GB

4. Out of the box solutions with reuse Hole in the wall project in India Children learn from each other After a few days basic skils are learned Cut & past, folders and written messages after a month

5. What is put together The business of recycle Collect, sort, refurbish, sell solutions Training System development Making content

6. Certain successes Skolelinux from Norway to Eritrea in Norway's largest ICT transfer ever Twenty tons of computer equipment was sent InOut in Norway / FAIR with foreign aid

7. Digital skills using computers Digital literacy is the forth basic skill in addition to learn writing, math and language Norwegian ministry of education

8. Fun or important projects Develop and get free software onto devices

9. Student projects, labs, curriculum Get the educational institutions involved Making all the source available wold transfer technology over to the developing world

10. Student project: Stopmotion

11. Since it's Open Source you can Learn from others Let others learn from you Making business of your work GPL is commercial Shared Source is anti commercial With free and open source software you are free to participate You don't need to ask permission

12. Growth in FOSS development Increase of four most used languages Source: From Pigs to Stripes: A Travel Through Debian http://libresoft.urjc.es/Papers/InfoPaper?id=frompigstostripes:atravelthroughdebian

13. Increase of C++ and Java in Debian

14. Use of FOSS has increased Dice.com (job announcements) As of 1th Aug. Jobs for Linux tech pro's have jumped 36% this year Jumped 55% since 12 months ago In general the growth are 13% and 18% respectively Gartner Group on global use Java dev tools decreased by 2% FOSS dev tools increased by 21% Source: www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3609211 http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/5663/469

15. Removing obstacles with FOSS i biz Public tenders Open Standards FOSS in education Get FOSS preinstalled on HW Making FOSS as the default choice Give developing world full access to our technology Open Content (CC or GPL documents)

16. Then the developing countries can Help kids learning from other kids Make their own computer industry with services development making hardware etc. Go from dependence to independence Nothing new. The oil industry in Norway This has given and will give more business for us all

17. Questions and suggestions