Showing posts with label south africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label south africa. Show all posts
26 July 2014

Big Pharma Accused Of Patent Plot Of 'Satanic Magnitude' By South African Health Minister

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Here on Techdirt we've written a number of times about India's efforts to provide key drugs to its population at prices that the...
24 July 2014

South Africa Plans To Terminate And Renegotiate Treaties That Include Corporate Sovereignty

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Despite the growing evidence that corporate sovereignty clauses in international treaties pose considerable risks to nations that sign...
17 March 2009

Yet More Open Source for South Africa

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Yesterday I wrote about India's opposition backing open source more fully, and here's a good update on what's happening in Sou...
15 January 2009

Out of Africa Something New - and Bad

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Despite the fact that South Africa is at the forefront of open source usage, it seems to be taking a very bad turn as far as open knowledg...
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15 August 2008

ISO's Day of Shame

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So ISO has decided it wants to be irrelevant : The two ISO and IEC technical boards have given the go-ahead to publish ISO/IEC DIS 29500, In...
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13 June 2008

In Praise of Government Leadership

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On Open Enterprise blog .
10 June 2008

I Came, ISO, I Didn't Conquer

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The OOXML farce continues : Four national standards body members of ISO and IEC – Brazil, India, South Africa and Venezuela – have submitted...
23 May 2008

ISO Appeal: South Africa Rises to the Challenge

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On Open Enterprise blog .
20 May 2008

Microsoft's Latest Whizzo Plan: Divide and Conquer

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On Open Enterprise blog .
24 October 2007

SA Adopts ODF

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The club just got larger : Open Document format (ODF) yesterday became an official standard for South African government communications. The...
22 February 2007

The Open Rainbow Nation

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Big news from South Africa: The South African Cabinet today announced that it had approved a free and open source strategy and that governm...
29 January 2007

Second Life and Africa

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Here's an interesting point : Many have observed that the African American economy in the US is probably bigger than even South Africa, ...
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28 September 2006

Open Energy Technology

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Here's another example of open source being invoked in the context of helping to solve environmental problems: Non-patentable shared ...
20 February 2006

Open Business on Open Content

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Once more, the indispensable Open Access News takes me somewhere I didn't know I wanted to go. This time it's to a site called Ope...