PhD Candidate Paper

TitlePhD Candidate Paper
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2008
AuthorsChan, AS
Secondary TitleScience Studies
Number2
Date PublishedFeb
Abstract

National legislation to mandate the use or consideration of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) in government institutions is increasingly emerging as a strategy for FLOSS advocates in Latin America and the broader developing world. Such movements for the political use and regulation of FLOSS mark a distinct turn in the objectives and work of FLOSS advocates, whose activities largely focused on the dissemination of FLOSS as a technological artifact. This paper investigates the network of diverse actors involved in promoting FLOSS legislation in Peru, one of the first nations where a movement for FLOSS legislation emerged. It emphasizes that crucial to the work of FLOSS' network actors is not their merely technological productivity, but their cultural and political productivity - that is, their ability to produce diverse body of meaning made both evident and mobile in narratives of FLOSS use and adoption.

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