Open Source In Zambia Resources
This page contains background information for academic study of the free software movement in Zambia and Africa, for individuals and organisations seeking input or financing for their projects, and for people who would like to find out how to contribute.
Like everything else on this website, this information needs the input of users and visitors in order to be kept up-to-date and relevant to the needs of the open source community. Please feel free to edit it.
Status Reports
The current number of Zambian Linux users (to be taken with a pinch of salt, perhaps) is given at Linux Counter.
ICT Journalist, the blog of Brenda Zulu, has loads of information about IT and telecomms in Africa
ICT Development and Education with Open Source in Zambia (July 2005)
Free and Open Source in Zimbabwe: An understanding of FOSS for ICT policy (May 2005)
Link Centre e-index, Wits, South Africa (PDF chapter on Zambia, dated 2004/5)
OSS perspectives in southern Africa, (including link to PDF, 1MB, dated September 2005)
"OSS for Development: Myth or Reality?" (PDF, dated September 2005) and "OSS in Africa"; see also Victor van Reijswoud
Several bridges.org reports about OSS (PDFs, dated April 2003 through May 2005)
Zambia ICT policy (PDF, dated January 2005)
"Open Source in Africa" by Kwindla Kramer
Software license fees and GDP per capita (HTML, dated May 2004)
Report of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Local Government Workshop (January 2004)
Open source software and low cost computing in Africa (PDF, 2003)
OSS in Africa - Take it or Leave it (Word document, dated June 2003)
Zambia ICT survey (PDF, dated November 2002), see also Zambia SIDA
Linux on the Internet (Word document, dated August 2001)
Bibliographies
/OSSBackgroundInformation - contributed by Christian Pothmann
HelpGuides
UNESCO telecentre cookbook (PDF, dated July 2003)
TacticalTech has a huge amount of information: research, events, projects and more
Open Source Africa has practical guidance on using open source