Open+Theme+Table+1+Yellow

=Open Theme Table 1 (Yellow) = Implications of continuously emerging technologies for ..... please complete. Facilitator: Geoff Hendrick
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Open Source in Education

IT tender procurement processes discourage open source? IT tenders good for acquiring mainstream, mature ICT not so good for innovating, piloting Many OSS vendors lack capability to respond to large tenders still some risk aversion to OSS

edu has special interest in innovation in ICT OSS has special role to play here There are many very good OSS tools for edu

need OSS + open standards OSS has interop benefits...easier to get interop working if can see, change source code