The Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) collaborated with the Ministry of Science and Technology and Linux International Company to hold a workshop on "Open Source and Sustainable Business" in Hanoi on August 29, 2009. This activity was part of the project "Assisting businesses to apply ICT to serve integration and development in the 2005-2010 period" that the Government assigned VCCI to implement. The event was aimed to provide knowledge of free and open source software. At the workshop, Mr Jon Maddog Hall, President and CEO of Linux International, presented the notion of free and open source software and reasons why engineers write Freedom Software and benefits of Freedom Software to business activities. He said system administrators and specialists can make money from Freedom Software as they help manage products, marketing strategies, training programmes and product consulting services. He added any one can become a specialist by downloading open source software from … [Read more...] about Benefits of Open Source Software to Business Activities
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4th WITFOR 2009 opens in Hanoi
The WITFOR is initiated by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and has been organized by IFIP every other year since 2003 in cooperation with the government of the host country and many other stakeholders. The event also contributes to the World Summit of the Information Society's (WSIS) Plan of Action a step forward and to helping developing countries achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). With the theme of "ICT for Sustainable Development", WITFOR 2009 is a minister-level event with the participation of Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and almost 1,500 delegates who are ICT Ministers, senior policy-makers, international organizations, UN agency representatives, NGOs, academics, ICT experts and the private sector. "WITFOR 2009, organized in Hanoi, Vietnam, is an opportunity for countries to comprehensively and deeply discuss the role of ICT in resolving challenges for sustainable development such as effective usage of energy and … [Read more...] about 4th WITFOR 2009 opens in Hanoi
The 17th Vietnam ICT Development and Cooperation Conference to open in Hue
The 17th Vietnam Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Development and Cooperation Conference, entitled "Building a synchronous ICT infrastructure system aiming at serving socio-economic development", officially took place at Green Hotel, Hue City on August 30. The conference was held by the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) in collaboration with the People's Committee of Thua Thien Hue Province (PPC), Vietnam Association for Information Processing (VAIP), and Ho Chi Minh City Computer Association (HCA). Addressing the conference, Mr. Nguyen Minh Hong, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications emphasized that at the 4th plenum in 2012, the 11th Party Central Committee (PCC) issued the Resolution 13-NQ/TW on building a synchronous infrastructure system in order to turn Viet Nam into a modern industrialized country by 2020, in which the PCC defined information infrastructure as a part of infrastructure system, considered IT application and development … [Read more...] about The 17th Vietnam ICT Development and Cooperation Conference to open in Hue
Hackers shake confidence in 1980s free software idealism
Hackers have shaken the free-software movement that once symbolized the Web's idealism. Several high-profile attacks in recent months exploited security flaws found in the "open-source" software created by volunteers collaborating online, building off each other's work. First developed in the 1980s, open-source software has become so pervasive that it now powers global stock exchanges, the International Space Station and, according to researcher International Data Corp., appears on about 95 percent of computers and servers. Attacks this year using flaws nicknamed Heartbleed and Shellshock have some programmers suggesting that corporations or even the U.S. government should provide more money or programing help. That idea doesn't go over easily among grass-roots developers who want to remain true to the ideals of a do-it-yourself movement. "It's going to be a wake-up call for a lot of people to understand why we aren't auditing this software better," said Greg Martin, founder and chief … [Read more...] about Hackers shake confidence in 1980s free software idealism
Developing nations to test new $150 laptops
From Brazil to Pakistan, some of the world's poorest children will peer across the digital divide this month - reading electronic books, shooting digital video, creating music and chatting with classmates online. Founded by Massachusetts Institute of Technology academics, the non-profit "One Laptop per Child" project will roll out nearly 2,500 of its $150-laptops to eight nations in February. A woman uses a hand-cranked laptop computer in the exhibition area of the second United Nation's World Summit on the Information Society … [Read more...] about Developing nations to test new $150 laptops