Open source as a tool for communal technology development: using appropriate technology criteria to determine the impact of open source technologies on communities as delivered through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Fab Lab Projects
Abstract This paper aims to determine whether open source technologies are able to address community-specific needs more appropriately than proprietary equivalents and are therefore more relevant to the needs of the communities that create them. To this end, the paper argues that open source initiat...
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| Language: | en |
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2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10539/8615 |