Kamukwape's Diary

Photo: http://fenza.org/fingers/your_experiences/ As I flipped through pages of some old religious magazine, rays of old memories with some old religious men my Father connected me to, set my memory eyes gaze at the great moments of the times. Quickly, a thought of grasping some news from the Missionaries of Africa blog led me to set my hands on my gadgets.  Fast, browsing through, and an article coloured with a slide of beautiful pictures of some Missionaries attracted my attention. As I googled some Missionaries's names Father Bernhard made my mind to ping down seven years, and I could not hesitate to read about one of his old research work. I attended a week long workshop (some good about 7 years ago) facilitated by the Father Bernhard, the Author of the quoted book, as part of a research of which this book is a fruit. Several practices undertaken by Witch Doctors in some local language known as Bakamucapi (traditionally believed to have the spiritual powers to f...

This article is extracted from one of the discussions on telecentre.org, in 2009. It highlights various issues on Open Source Software. Free and Open Source Software ; challenges and opportunities in telecentres by  Wandila Simon Dec 23, 2009 Open source software (OSS) is computer software for which the source code and certain other rights normally reserved for copyright holders are provided under a software license that meets the Open Source Definition or that is in the public domain. This permits users to use, change, and improve the software, and to redistribute it in modified or unmodified forms. It is very often developed in a public, collaborative manner. Open source software is the most prominent example of open source development and often compared to user-generated content. The term open source software originated as part of a marketing campaign for free software.A report by Standish Group states that adoption of open source software models has resulted ...