UNESCO to push A2K, Free Software
CPTech‘s Thiru in Geneva tells me that the UNESCO has published how it intends to go about implementing the Action Plan for "Access to information and knowledge", which was designed at the World Summit on the Information Society.
The document makes a nice read, for a change from the usually rather drab UN stuff. Predictably, I particularly liked this passage:
e) Encourage research and promote awareness among all stakeholders of the possibilities offered by different software models, and the means of their creation, including proprietary, open-source and free software, in order to increase competition, freedom of choice and affordability, and to enable all stakeholders to evaluate which solution best meets their requirements.