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4th ICT Round-Table Washington, DC, 31 January 2008 RTI International is a trade name of Research Triangle Institute Agenda 1. Welcome and introduction Gordon Cressman, Senior Program Director, IDG/ICT, RTI International 2. Open Source Software: Democratizing Content in a Changing Global Climate Tom Rabon, Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Red Hat 3. Open floor discussion 4. Next Round-table - Public/Private partnerships: How to encourage private funding to expand ICT in international development projects Group discussion of trends, lessons learned, best practices Open Source Software: What is it? Development often a collaborative effort including volunteers Source code made available under a copyright license Not necessarily free of license fees, but often is License addresses redistribution, derived works, integrity of author’s work, and other issues Good models exist, but must be applied with care Is it Important in International Development? Global interest is growing Latin America: Expanded business and public sector access to IT Brazil, Peru, Venezuela: promote or require use in public sector to lower costs China: drives most business email and adoption of IP VPN services Benefits vary based on use and focus Discussion often clouded by misperceptions Seldom analyzed dispassionately and objectively The 2006 e-readiness rankings, A white paper from the economist intelligence unit Open Source Software: Perspectives for Development, Paul Dravis, World Bank InfoDev Why do we use it? Local ownership and control Local capacity building Sustainability Speed, flexibility, power What we use it for? Knowledge sharing & management Content Management Systems (CMS) Web 2.0 & social networking Research data collection & management Management information systems Routine health information systems Systems monitoring, management, server virtualization, redundancy, clustering ASEAN Member Services & ASEAN Regional Forum Intranet and Extranet Web Sites Municipal Budget Reform Project, Ukraine USAID Project Web Site, Contract India Health 2007 Conference Web Site HealthGov Philippines Project Web Site, Cooperative Agreement Continuous Medical Education System Iraq Ministry of Health Zambia Electronic Perinatal Record System (ZEPRS) Electronic First Patient Record and Referral System Zambia Electronic Perinatal Record System (ZEPRS) Platform Components Platform Component Selected Solution Operating System Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Backup Arkeia Backup Wireless Authentication AEGIS Premium Server Relational Database MySQL Application Java, Struts, JDBC, Apache DBUtils, AJAX – DWR and script.aculo.us, Quartz, Junit, XStream Web Application Server Apache (httpd) Tomcat (servlet container) E-mail Cyrus IMAP, Squirrel Mail, Sendmail, Spam Assassin E-mail Server Anti-virus AMaVIS Introduction to Red Hat An Open Source Subscription Services Business Model Founded in 1993 Premier Linux and open source provider Most recognized Linux distribution in the world Subscription support model for enterprise customers Free and open source distribution for anyone Headquartered on the NC State Centennial Campus, Research Triangle, NC Offices in 24 countries in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and AsiaPacific