Related research

This page contains links to research associated with the FLOSSPOLS project and further papers based on results combined with the previous FLOSS project.

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Open standards, economics and innovation
Presented by Rishab Ghosh,Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue, Meeting on Interoperability and Open Standards, Brussels, February 11, 2008
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An economic basis for open standards
Presented by Rishab Ghosh,Open Standards International Symposium, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT, February 3, 2007
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Who is behind open source?,
Presented by Rishab Ghosh, Gartner Open Source Summit,Barcelona, June 14, 2006
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The Economics of Free Software - and why it matters for developing countries
Presented by Rishab Ghosh, World Summit on Information Society, UNU-INTECH Parallel Event, Tunis, November 16, 2005
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Barriers to the use of FLOSS in Government
Presented by Rishab Ghosh, Open Source World Conference, Merida, Extremadura, Spain, October 26, 2005
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Free/Libre/Open Source Software skills and employment
Presented by Rishab Ghosh, OSCON 2005 - 7th Open Source Convention, Portland, Oregon, USA, August 3, 2005
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Public Administrations Partnering with Free Software/ Open Source Developers
Presented by Rishab Ghosh, IDABC Workshop on Public Administrations and OSS LinuxTag, Karlsruhe, Germany, June 23, 2005
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Free/Libre/Open Source Software for developing countries: skills, employment and costs
Presented by Rishab Ghosh, 2nd National Congress on Software Libre, Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 7, 2005
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Free/Libre/Open Source Software for developing countries: skills, employment and costs
Presented by Rishab Ghosh, 6th Forum Internacional Software Livre, Porto Alegre, Brazil, June 2, 2005
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Free/Libre/Open Source Software as a learning environment
Presented by Rishab Ghosh, International Symposium on Open Source Software, Abano Terme (Padova), April 15, 2005
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Free/Libre/Open Source Software in Government
Presented by Rishab Ghosh, International Symposium on Open Source Software, Abano Terme (Padova), April 15, 2005
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Mechanics of Open Innovation: The case of Free Software
Presented by Rishab Ghosh, Freedom, Creative Capital Conference, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, March 17, 2005
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Collaboration & Development in Free Software Communities
Presented by Rishab Ghosh, Freedom, Sharing and Sustainability in the Global Network Society, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland, March 14, 2005
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Free/Libre/Open Source software: engineering and economics
Presented by Rishab Ghosh, International Unnayan, BITS Ranchi, Jharkhand, India, February 4, 2005
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The Economics of Free Software
presented by Rishab Ghosh at the CARNET Users Conference, Zagreb, September 27, 2004
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The Economics of Free Software and why it matters for developing countries
presented by Rishab Ghosh at the UNCTAD Expert Meeting on F/OSS, Geneva, September 22, 2004
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Collaborative ownership and production: an 'unprotected' form of creativity?
presented by Rishab Ghosh at the TACD Workshop on “The Future of WIPO”, Geneva, September 14, 2004
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The technical impact of social links in free software development
presented by Rishab Ghosh at the Oxford Workshop on Libre Software, Oxford Internet Institute, June 25, 2004
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How Free Software Develops Skills and Local Economic Growth
presented by Rishab Ghosh at Wizards of OS 3, Berlin, June 10, 2004
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The Economics of Free Software - and why it matters for developing countries
presented by Rishab Ghosh at USUARIA 2004 – Software Libre Conference, Buenos Aires, May 27-29, 2004
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The Social Context of Free Software
presented by Rishab Ghosh at the Open Source and Free Software conference KMDI, University of Toronto, May 9, 2004
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Why developing countries need to use and create Free Software (and how it promotes Gross National Happiness)
presented by Rishab Ghosh at the Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications, Thimphu, Bhutan, April 9, 2004
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Open Source: Understanding Developers
presented by Rishab Ghosh at the EuroIndia conference, New Delhi, March 26, 2004
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Open Source: an environment for skills development and economic growth
presented by Rishab Ghosh at the EuroIndia conference, New Delhi, March 25, 2004
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Why developing countries need to use and create Free Software
presented by Rishab Ghosh at LinuxAsia 2004, Delhi, February 11-13 2004
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Why developing countries need to use and create Free Software
presented at IDLELO: the First African Conference on the Digital Commons, Cape Town,
January 2004, by Rishab Ghosh.
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Software patents, innovation and competition policy
talk at the Nederlandse Mededingingsautoriteit (NMa, Dutch Competition
Authority) by Rishab Ghosh and Luc Soete, December 17, 2003
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Open Source and Development
presented at UNCTAD Regional Conference for Latin America
Rio de Janeiro, 25-27 November 2003, by Rishab Ghosh
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Open Source: A case for developing countries
presented by Rishab Ghosh at the South Centre Briefing for WIPO delegates,
Geneva, November 3, 2003
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Open Standards and Open Source Software in The Netherlands
A quantitative study on attitudes and usage in Dutch authorities on Behalf of the Office of the “Programma OSOSS”, the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, and the Ministry of Economic Affairs

Open source: a case for transition economies
presented by Rishab Ghosh at the UNCTAD-UNECE "High-level Regional Conference for Transition Economies", Geneva, 20-21 October 2003
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Open source metrics: where software engineering and economics meet
presented by Rishab Ghosh at the Meeting on Open Source Software with EU
Commissioner Erkki Liikanen, September 25, 2003
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Copyleft and dual licensing for publicly funded software development (draft version)
by Rishab Aiyer Ghosh

Understanding Free Software Developers: Findings from the FLOSS Study
presented by Rishab Ghosh at the Harvard Business School/MIT Sloan Free/Open Source Software Conference: New Models of Software Development, June 19-20, 2003
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Why developing countries need FLOSS
presented by Rishab Ghosh at the Business Council for the UN "Net World Order" conference at CeBIT America, New York, June 18, 2003
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