@article {757,
	title = {Analyzing Public Open Source Policy: The Case Study of Venezuela},
	year = {2008},
	month = {2008},
	pages = {249 - 257},
	abstract = {This research examines public open source software (OSS) adoption policies using a framework built upon the analysis of information and communication technology (ICT) policies. The legislative and objective framework is used to picture the formal public
 OSS policies applied in Venezuela. Preliminary results indicate negligence for the inclusion of the private sector in the
 migration plan. Future research looks for an analysis in situ of the activities carried out in the country, and the validation
 of the framework.
},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09768-8_17},
	author = {Maldonado, Edgar and Tapia, Andrea}
}
@article {685,
	title = {ICT Policies as a Means to Inhibit Social Exclusion: The South African Case},
	year = {2006},
	pages = {137 - 150},
	abstract = {Social exclusion is a multi dimensional phenomenon that manifests itself in the exclusion of an individual from one or more of the four following activities: production of goods and services, consumption, civil engagement, and social interaction.
 Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been argued to have the potential to reduce these forms of social exclusion.
 However, the extent to which they deal with these different forms of social exclusion remains unknown. Therefore, in this
 study we examine how ICT policies in South Africa are being employed to reduce social exclusion. In particular, we analyze
 which dimensions of social exclusion are targeted in telecommunication laws and one of the ICT initiatives of the South African
 government, Multi-Purpose Community Centers (MPCCs). Using a framework that portrays the four forms of social exclusion within
 the discourses used in phenomenon debates (redistributionist, moral underclass, and social integrationist) for analysis, we
 find that ICT policies in South Africa address two of the four forms of social exclusion: production of goods and services
 and civil engagement, spanning both the redistributionist and social integrationist discourses of social exclusion.
},
	doi = {10.1007/0-387-34588-4_10},
	author = {Maldonado, Edgar and Pogrebnyakov, Nicolai and van Gorp, Annemijn}
}
