[Solar-general] Fw: [hipatia] India y Chile

Lun Mayo 30 06:34:21 CEST 2005

DECLARACION DE MAYO

Adoptada por las organizaciones y personas participantes del Encuentro
Internacional Software Libre y Apropiación Social de Nuevas Tecnologías,

reunidas en Santiago de Chile en Mayo del 2005.

http://www.encuentromayo.cl/site/

   Hemos acogido la diversidad de opiniones que puede existir en la
discusión de las políticas públicas orientadas a la apropiación social
del software libre, y más allá de los principios mínimos expuestos más
  abajo y que deben tenerse en cuenta por los gobiernos y la propia
comunidad, queremos subrayar la necesidad de promover la adopción de
decisiones públicas y privadas que alienten el desarrollo y empleo de
                   software y tecnologías libres.

1.- Software y Tecnologías Libres. El actual desarrollo tecnológico,
logrado a partir del mayor emprendimiento colectivo de construcción de
conocimiento de la historia de la humanidad (el Movimiento del Software
Libre) permite a nuestras comunidades disponer de software y tecnologías
que garantizan el acceso a las mismas, su libre uso, su libre
distribución y la libertad para introducir mejoras en ellas. Los
beneficios económicos, sociales y culturales que el software y
tecnologías libres garantizan a nuestros pueblos hacen imprescindible
brindar un respaldo al desarrollo de soluciones que se inspiren en su
filosofía.

El marco ético y las dinámicas de trabajo surgidas a partir del
Movimiento del Software Libre permean y nutren el desarrollo de nuevas y
generosas páginas de la producción intelectual, donde una cada vez más
numerosa comunidad de individuos y entidades abrazan modelos de
licenciamiento de la cultura que incentivan la socialización de la
cultura, reconociendo la autoría y balanceando su utilidad social y el
provecho económico de las obras por parte de sus creadores.

2.- Opción Preferente por Software y Tecnologías Libres. En la
disyuntiva de hacer uso de software y tecnologías libres o no, debe
elegirse hacer empleo de las primeras, por cuanto contribuyen a
resguardar el interéspúblico, al garantizar el acceso de la población a
las creaciones, permitiendo que participe de los beneficios del progreso
de las ciencias, las artes y la tecnología. Esto es particularmente
importante hoy, cuando a través de las denominadas leyes sobre propiedad
intelectual se reduce la posibilidad de hacer uso de las creaciones sin
mediar un pago previo. La denominada política de neutralidad tecnológica
no debe ser interpretada como un obstáculo para la elección de softwares
y tecnologías libres.

3.- Promoción de Software y Tecnologías Libres.El grado de
concientización alcanzado en cuanto a las oportunidades que ofrecen el
software y las tecnologías libres es satisfactorio; no obstante, es
menester desarrollar acciones de promoción y difusión de su empleo de
manera de garantizar el incremento de su uso.

4.- Software y Tecnologías Libres para el Desarrollo. La opción por el
software y tecnologías libres, particularmente en el caso de países no
desarrollados, es central a la hora de avanzar en la superación de la
brecha de acceso a la sociedad de la información, en cuanto contribuye a
la apropiación de las nuevas tecnologías, fomenta las actividades de las
empresas desarrolladoras de software a nivel nacional, y genera
oportunidades para el gobierno electrónico.

En razón de las consideraciones precedentes:

Solicitamos a quienes actualmente toman decisiones: Gobiernos,
Legisladores y autoridades públicas en general, acoger la preocupación y
contribución que desde las Organizaciones Sociales se formulan en torno
al esbozo de políticas públicas, sean normativas o no, asociadas al
empleo de software y tecnologías libres, y, a su vez, a documentarse
frente a la presión de quienes reniegan del uso de las mismas; y,
adoptar decisiones concretas que impliquen una opción preferente del
software y tecnologías libres en las áreas de la salud, educación,
cultura y, en general, en toda aquella de ingerencia estatal.

Solicitamos a las entidades del sector privado abrir espacios de diálogo
en relación con el empleo de software y tecnologías que garanticen el
interés público en su empleo; adoptar y promover el desarrollo y uso de
software y tecnologías libres; difundir entre sus pares los resultados
obtenidos del empleo de tales tecnologías.

Solicitamos a la comunidad del software libre redoblar los esfuerzos en
el desarrollo de software y tecnologías libres-accesibles que
contribuyan a incrementar el número de sus usuarios; en la elaboración
de estudios e investigaciones que incentiven y documenten la adopción de
políticas públicas proclives al software y tecnologías libres; y, por
último, en la promoción y difusión continua y sistemática del software y
tecnologías libres. Convocamos a entidades e individuos avocados a la
tarea de investigar y desarrollar conocimiento, reflexión crítica,
infocomunicación y otras formas de expresión del individuo a sumar
esfuerzos. Sus visiones e inquietudes son fundamentales para el
desarrollo y perfeccionamiento de los desarrollos actuales y por venir.
Asistimos a la formación de un cognitariado (trabajador en s de la sociedad
del conocimiento), y desde esa condición proponemos avanzar en los
desafíos futuros.

Invitamos a las organizaciones y entidades de la sociedad civil que aún
no se han vinculado al movimiento de creación y difusión del
conocimiento libre, en todas sus formas, a abrazar esta iniciativa de
alcance planetario que no hace distingos o exclusiones de ningún tipo, y
que se moviliza por la defensa del derecho humano a expresarse y
comunicarse.

Para este último particular, las organizaciones firmantes crearán un
espacio en Internet que permita una mejor coordinación entre las
distintas comunidades, en particular las presentes en América Latina y
el Caribe, que se dará a conocer en el portal del Encuentro:
www.encuentromayo.cl

Finalmente, queremos saludar a las comunidades de Software Libre del
mundo, en particular a las de India, que en estos precisos momentos
realizan un encuentro de similares características al nuestro, una
muestra más de que en todas las latitudes la humanidad pone sus
esfuerzos por un mundo posible, solidario, incluyente y sustentable.

Firman

Universidad Arcis, Chile
Hipatia
Solar – Software Libre Argentina
GLEDUCAR.org.ar
Corporación Derechos Digitales.org
CDSL.cl
Debianchile.cl
Chilewireless.cl
Fundación Acceso, Costa Rica
Educalibre.cl
Linuxchillan.cl
Softwarelibre.cl
Redhack.cl
Christian Perrier - Debian Project International
Niv Sardi - Debian Project International
Koumbit.org – Québec (Canada)
FACIL, pour l'appropriation collective de l'informatique libre – Québec (Canada)
Gdus.cl (Santiago)
Guglim
Miguel.cl
Guliv.cl (Valdivia)
Red Bolivariana Chile
Liceo Mariano Latorre, Curanilahue – VIII Región – Chile
Alianza Chilena por un Comercio Justo
Congregación Hijas de Maria Auxiliadora
Tecnologías sin Fronteras.org
Domingo Yañez – GSL – UTN (Argentina)

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Experts advocate free software at Kerala meet:-
Thiruvananthapuram | May 28, 2005 6:40:06 PM IST

Thiruvananthapuram, May 28 : Software experts from India, Italy and Latin
America called for global cooperation and collaborations in propagating free
software at a meet here Saturday.

At the two-day meet that started Saturday, economist and former Venezuela
minister for planning and development Filipe Perez-Marti stressed that
"participation, solidarity and wisdom" would be the three key words that
characterise a new global situation.

The conference is being organised by SPACE, the Thiruvananthapuram-based
Society for the Promotion of Alternative Computing and Environment, the global
NGO Hipatia and the Free Software Foundation-India.

Special advisor in Brazil's communications ministry Antonio Bezerra de
Albquerque Neto said his country was keen to build links with countries like
India and China, and stressed that free software is the key tool to build a
fairer society.

"Publicly-funded content must be openly available and sharing knowledge only
enhances its richness," said Italian senator Fiorello Cortiana.

Amidst praise for Kerala for organising the "first ever" south-to-south
contact in the world of free software and free knowledge, speakers from
Venezuela, Brazil, Italy and India explored ways of understanding their
respective situations and possibilities for collaboration.

Free Software Foundation of India director G. Nagarjuna stressed how India was
able to fight attempts to make software a patented item. He said help for this
endeavour had come from politicians and the media.

Latin American delegates spoke of why their firms had opted for free software
- for more control over their work and to avoid possibilities of sabotage in a
crucial sector of the economy.

(IANS) 
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/comment/reply/8319

India's Upcoming Free Software, Free Society Conference 
By Frederick Noronha on Wed, 2005-05-25 23:00. 
Free software advocates and IT delegates from around the world will be in 
Kerala, India, this week in the hopes of building free software 
collaborations for the future.

Free software offers its users various freedoms. In India, free software 
enthusiasts are working on a new one--the freedom to build bridges to 
potential partners half-way across the globe who are facing similar 
developmental concerns or challenges.

To help facilitate this bridge-building process, the Free Software Foundation 
of India is organising a four-country conference to be held May 28-29, 2005. 
The Free Software, Free Society conference brings together hackers from an 
unlikely set of nations, people who don't speak the same language but who do 
see much in the idea that knowledge is most powerful when it is shared 
freely. Arun M, arun en gnu.org.in, one of the key organisers of this event, 
said, "The Free Software movement has shown a new way of knowledge creation 
based on collaboration and social ownership. This conference explores the 
possibilities of applying the Free Software model in addressing broader 
questions such as governance, digital inclusion, development and culture."

Free Software, Free Society is being organised by the Free Software 
Foundation of India, along with Italy's Hipatia project, the Society for 
Promotion of Alternative Computing and Employment (SPACE) in Kerala and the 
Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala (IITM-K). 
The conference will be held at Technopark, a technology and software 
promotion centre in the state-capital of India's southernmost state of 
Kerala.

Foreign delegations slated to attend the event include a four-member 
Brazilian delegation led by Antonio Albuquerque of the Ministry of 
Communication; the 20-member Venezuelan delegation led by Felipe Perez Marti, 
and eminent economist and ex-minister; and a three-member delegation from 
Italy led by Senator Fiorello Cortiana, a member of Italy's parliamentary 
representation in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). In 
addition, IT companies from Brazil and Venezuela--PDVSA and CONATEL, 
respectively--will be sending delegates to the conference. Conference 
organisers say these IT attendees are coming to Free Software, Free Society 
keen on the idea of exploring collaboration possibilities with Indian 
companies.

Organisers say the Free Software, Free Society conference will showcase 
various free software and free content initiatives being undertaken by 
conference participants. This includes the Creative Commons, a non-profit 
initiative devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for 
others to build upon and share legally. "This will help representatives from 
different organisations and countries to find synergy and collaborate. Topics 
covered will include e-governance, bridging the digital divide, education, 
development, social justice, legal issues and micro-finance", said Arun M.

The Free Software, Free Society agenda was designed to enable attendees to 
discuss their experiences with using free software and also to explore ways 
to collaborate on creation of new software applications as well as content. 
Theme-based discussions are being arranged on the role of free software and 
free knowledge on socio-economic development, the digital culture and 
technological advancement.

A business meeting also is incorporated in the Free Software, Free Society 
conference, which will allow delegations to meet with local IT businesses 
that work with free software based technologies and platforms. The hope is 
these meeting will provide an opportunity to plan for collaboration for the 
future. "This conference is first of its kind to be organised in Asia. Free 
software and free culture activists from South nations are coming together to 
discuss issues relating to control over knowledge and creativity", said Arun 
M.

Arun continues, "This conference came [about] as a result of the World Social 
Forum (WSW) [held in Mumbai, India in] 2004. During that meet, free software 
advocates from various countries came together to organise future events. FSF 
India and Hipatia took the initiative to run Media Center of WSF entirely 
with free software. For the first time in the history of the World Social 
Forum, its media center was running only on free software. It was a big 
success for movement and WSF."

After the WSW 2004 event, the issue that arose was, simply, what next? 
Hipatia and FSF India started working together, particularly to bring 
together activists from the nations of the South, including Brazil, 
Argentina, Venezuela and India. From this was born the idea for the upcoming 
Kerala conference. Arun said, "We also wanted to have a South-South exchange 
of ideas before the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis. 
The idea was to create a policy framework that will protect the interest of 
developing nations."

Organisers were hoping to have the Brazilian singer-guitarist-song-writer 
turned minister of culture Gilberto Gil present for the event. He could have 
come; so might have the Creative Commons champion Prof. Lawrence Lessig. But 
uncertainty over governmental support made this difficult.

Arun said one of the "expected results" of the conference is an "intellectual 
solidarity" between the participating countries "that may lead to more 
concrete collaborative initiatives in Free Software in particular and Free 
Knowledge in general". Such initiatives, he argued, should address various 
developmental needs of the society, particularly the so-called digital divide 
or chasm between those included and excluded from the benefits of the 
computer-generated information era.

"We are sure that this conference will be a starting point of several 
initiatives in free software and free culture", Arun said. He expects 
participants to come from a broad mix of fields:

    Unlike many other free software conference, focus here is not on 
technology. We have delegates and speakers coming from various fields--film, 
music, politics, bureaucracy, education, scientific research, media, 
programming and so on. This broad spectrum offers challenges and 
possibilities for this conference.... Everyone is excited about this 
conference. The Venezuela delegation particularly is interested in 
establishing relations with India IT companies and other organisations.... We 
hope this conference will create a long-term collaboration between members of 
free software communities from all the participating countries. We also [want 
to] explore the possibilities of specific initiatives in free software for 
governments and education, as well as for small enterprises and digital 
content production and sharing.

Speakers scheduled to take part include the Venezuelan economist and free 
software activist Dr. Felipe Perez-Marti, whose country was the first to 
mandate free software use in public sector institutions; musician turned 
free-software campaigner Juan Carlos Gentile, who is involved in initiatives 
such as Red Escolar GNU/Linux in Latin America; Italian lawyer Marco 
Ciurcina; and the famous Indian software hacker Anand Babu, who lead the 
engineering team of California Digital that in June 2004 designed and built 
what then was the world's second-fastest super computer, code named Thunder, 
using free software.

--  
Diego Saravia  
dsa en unsa.edu.ar

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