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The state of open source in the Global South
- The Eclipse Foundation recently conducted a report on open source in the Global South, the region of the world which the United Nations defines as “the developing and emerging industrial economies across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and Oceania.”
- 77% of respondents said they used open source software, 37% contribute to open source projects, 27% maintain them, and 22% create new projects.
- Developers in the Global South are having significant impact across a variety of industries, in existing businesses, in financial services, telecom, and healthcare, and increasingly, they’re creating new ventures.
- The fastest growing developer communities are almost exclusively in the Global South.
- Open source enables startups and businesses to leverage technology to create opportunity.
- The impact of open source was being felt far beyond just software development and also having broader socioeconomic effects.
- The positive impact of these developers is something that we were positively surprised by and they’re not just users of open source, but also shaping its future.
- People in the Global South are able to relate to each other as community members due to open source.
- The fact that with open source, someone sitting in Palo Alto, California now has the same access to technology as someone sitting in Johannesburg, South Africa, or Lagos, Nigeria.
- The report pointed out that it’s also positive because open source solutions are being created that can impact gender-specific issues.
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