Global Information Society Watch 2026. Free/libre and open source software: Visions of openness from the Global South
ISBN 978-92-95113-91-6
"This special edition of Global Information Society Watch offers powerful arguments for the decolonisation of free/libre and open source software (FLOSS). The nine thematic reports published here analyse structural exclusions in the FLOSS community, detail what the FLOSS movement can learn from feminism, map FLOSS advocacy in the Global South, and suggest practical ways that FLOSS projects can be more inclusive. They argue that the FLOSS movement needs to be revitalised through a stronger identification with marginalised communities in the Global South." (Back cover)
Funding FLOSS: Power, governance and the Global South / Tara Tarakiyee, 9
Principles of “openness” in an increasingly captured environment: A perspective from Southwest Asia and North Africa / Ragheb Ghandour, 17
Bridging the FLOSS divide between the North and the South / Penguin Selectah, 24
How ([sh|c]ould) FLOSS workers of the world unite? Reflections on the EU experience / Ada LaNerd, 29
What if the F, from FLOSS, was for Feminism? / Bruna Zanolli and Joana Varon, 36
Three key principles of FLOSS use in the Global South / Rebecca Ryakitimbo, 43
FLOSS, development and digital inclusion in countries of the Global Majority / Haitham Dahboor, 48
Is it too late to build an AI commons? / Zara Rahman and Elisa Lindinger, 56
Best practices for diversity, equity and inclusion in FLOSS projects / Maja Kraljic, 62
Principles of “openness” in an increasingly captured environment: A perspective from Southwest Asia and North Africa / Ragheb Ghandour, 17
Bridging the FLOSS divide between the North and the South / Penguin Selectah, 24
How ([sh|c]ould) FLOSS workers of the world unite? Reflections on the EU experience / Ada LaNerd, 29
What if the F, from FLOSS, was for Feminism? / Bruna Zanolli and Joana Varon, 36
Three key principles of FLOSS use in the Global South / Rebecca Ryakitimbo, 43
FLOSS, development and digital inclusion in countries of the Global Majority / Haitham Dahboor, 48
Is it too late to build an AI commons? / Zara Rahman and Elisa Lindinger, 56
Best practices for diversity, equity and inclusion in FLOSS projects / Maja Kraljic, 62
