Don de Silva
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Profile
Don is an information technology specialist and environmentalist. He is experienced in managing and implementing exciting and innovative local, national and international ICT programmes in both industrialised and developing countries. He initiated the use of Open Source amongst a number of ethnic minority NGOs and helped to established award winning web sites, based on Open Source for advocacy and campaigns, such as:
Other sites he has recently developed based on Open Source include:
He is also an adviser to
OneWorld
Notes Relating to talk
Don spoke about the 1990 Trust which exists to help BME organisations, campaign against racism and for human rights.
The Trust’s technology consists of networking, mail server, web server, storage/backup to facilitate finance & admin, campaigns and publishing
They are using Debian Linux, Post Fix (mail transfer), Apache web server and Amanda for backup. www.amanda.org
Websites run by the Trust are:
Black Information Link (BLINK) www.blink.org.uk – has 5000 registered members – Apache server, Sun Chilisoft Java active server pages,
PostGre? SQL server
Healthweb – www.heathweb.blink.org.uk – uses PHP, Mambo Server www.mamboserver.com Open Source Content Management System
Lambeth Independent Advisory Group www.liag.org
Conclusions -
Open Source software (OSS) use is spreading rapidly in Asia, Africa, Latin America & Caribbean
OSS levels the IT playing field
Digital divide haves and have-nots can be bridged through OSS.
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