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GBS and Students: Ed Van Gemert of UW-Madison on Why Students Want GBS
At UW-Madison, we routinely refer students to Google Books and the University of Wisconsin Digital Collection. Several examples illustrate some of the K-12 and college use and wide adoption of electronic scholarly resources. Annual usage grows exponentially.
* “I am a college student working on a cultural tapestry for one of my courses. My instructor wants us to save photographs of the culture we’ve chosen to study on a jpeg file and it can’t be copyrighted. I was hoping you would give me permission to use some of these pictures for my project. She wants an e-mail sent with consent to use them. I can’t find pictures any place that aren’t copyrighted, and have been unable to gain permission from any site. This is strictly for my final; educational use only. Please help!”
– University of Wisconsin Digital Collection: Africa Focus
e-Development - Global Dialogue on Exploring the Results of Governmental Open Source Software Policies: Brazil Experience
Within the last decade, more than 60 countries and international organizations have developed nearly 275 policy documents related with the use of Open Source in public sector. The rationale behind most of these policy initiatives is the improvement of governance through transparent and effective use of information technology budgets in public sector, as well as economic/engineering benefits of reusable open source software. A majority of these open source initiatives (~70%) have been accepted and final actions have been taken by mid 2008. Suitable business models have been developed to implement these policies and successful public sector solutions based on open source software have emerged.
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