@incollection{1677, author = {G Miscione and D Gordon and K Johnston}, title = {Free and Open Source Software in low-income countries: Emergent properties?}, abstract = {Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is becoming an increasingly important element in strategies for development and implementation of information and communication technologies (ICT) in low-income countries (LICs). Such initiatives often have strong public sector orientation, as government ICT policies are expected to shape and support further socio-economical development. The usual mismatch between bureaucracies and trajectories of development initiatives (mostly run by international agencies) provides a promising field for empirical research. © 2008 International Federation for Information Processing.}, year = {2008}, volume = {282}, pages = {351–355}, month = {Sep}, issn = {1571-5736}, isbn = {9780387848211}, doi = {10.1007/978-0-387-84822-8_24}, language = {eng}, key = {miscione2008freeproperties}, }