Building on UNESCO?s Free Software Portal, the main goal of the project ?Free open source software for information processing and education? is to promote and encourage use of free open source software in the Organization?s fields of competence and to contribute to their development and distribution as ?global public goods? serving UNESCO?s Member States. A web-based collaborative working environment will catalyse and coordinate the production and dissemination free-of-charge of selected UNESCO open source tools for processing information, communicating knowledge and facilitating education. The whole development is based on the ?Open Source Software/Free Software? (OSSFS) development model, thus encouraging international solidarity, collaboration and voluntary community work among institutions, programmers and computer users.

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UNESCO, the National Informatics Centre (NIC) in Delhi, the Open Knowledge Network (OKN) and UNESCO have created a partnership to develop a new software tool ? to be called Open eNRICH - for the creation and exchange of locally relevant knowledge within and between communities in developing countries.

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