Supporting Development of Norway's Electronic Frontier
Some months ago, around the time of the 2007 eZ Conference, I started working with Tor-Arne Bellika (from Innovation Performance AS) and Aleksander Farstad (from eZ Systems AS) on a series of projects centered around helping to develop Norway's electronic frontier.
The projects are diverse and broad in scope. They range from developing a Free Software and Open Innovation competence center in Skien (at Klosterøya) to working with the Høgskolen i Telemark (Telemark University College) in Bø to help them assess the feasibility of offering a Master's program in Free Software and Open Source.
This work is just a part of the exciting wave of things happening in the Nordic region, that range from Norway's progressive view on Free Software and Open Source to the new Norwegian Free Software National Competence Center to ventures like COSS (the Finnish Center for Open Source Solutions) and events like OpenMind and MindTrek.
Over the coming days, weeks and months, I'll be writing more about the specific projects that we are working on and the others that are working with us on these projects.
Link Summary
- http://ez.no/company/events/conference
- http://i-perform.no/
- http://ez.no
- http://www.klosteroya.no/
- http://www.hit.no/english
- http://en.wikipedia.o...i/B%C3%B8%2C_Telemark
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_countries
- http://friprog.no/
- http://www.coss.fi/web/coss/about
- http://openmind.fi
- http://www.mindtrek.org/
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Posted on Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 at 5:33
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October 11th, 2007 at 12:00
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