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About Asia Source 3

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Building Capacities and Empowering Humanity through the use of Free and Open Source Software to connect, cooperate, and collaborate – the FOSS way.

Asia Source 3 was a six day hands-on open source camp in the Philippines aimed at building Open Source IT-skills of those working with NGOs and SMEs in Asia. From November 7 to 12, 2009, the gathering brought together more than 140 participants from 15 Asian countries in Silang, located in Cavite, Philippines to build capacities to connect, cooperate, and collaborate. Asia Source 3 reunited  IT-experts from non-governmental organizations (NGOs), small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and youth networks to focus on the practical elements of the deployment of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)  within an economic and social context. The event was run as a hands-on training camp to increase the awareness, integration and adoption of FOSS tools in Asia.

Asia Source 3 was jointly organized by UNDP's International Open Source Network (UNDP-IOSN) through its ASEAN+3 Centre of Excellence (Philippines) and InWEnt - Capacity Building International (Germany) together with the Tactical Technology Collective (Netherlands), Aspiration (USA) and The Centre for Internet and Society (India). Funders include the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany (BMZ), the ASEAN Foundation and the Open Society Institute.

It is the third event of the Asia source camp series, two of which have been held so far – in Bangalore, India in 2005 and Sukabumi, Indonesia in 2007.

This community building event is the first of its kind in the Philippines Previous large scale FOSS events have been policy oriented events, industry trade shows or Linux User Group Events. Asia Source is the first regional event bringing people together to focus on the practical elements of FOSS deployment specifically within a social context of sustainable human development.

 

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Asia Source 3 is jointly organized by UNDP's International Open Source Network (UNDP-IOSN) through its ASEAN+3 Centre of Excellence, InWEnt - Capacity Building International (Germany), Tactical Technology Collective (Netherlands), Aspiration (USA). The event is supported by The Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), ASEAN Foundation and Open Society Institute”

07-12  NOVEMBER  2009
YEN CENTER, SILANG, CAVITE, PHILIPPINES