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Cloud Computing: Richard Stallman calls us STUPID! (With respect, we don’t agree RMS!)

by
Chanuka Wattegama
on September 30, 2008
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He did not mean LIRNEasia specifically, but when the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) guru Richard M. Stallman (RMS) says CLOUD COMPUTING IS WORSE THAN STUPIDITY – certainly we are in. So just cannot let it pass without comments.

Not that we are offended. Cloud computing is not our religion – it is just an experiment - part of our research. We may be proved wrong – but at least not so far. We are glad we use the model.

Here is how we, at LIRNEasia, use ‘CLOUD’ Computing:

This blog itself is in the CLOUD (Wordpress, to be specific)

All our documents are in the CLOUD (Scribd)

All our photos are in the CLOUD (Flickr)

All our video clips are in the CLOUD (You Tube)

All our databases are in the CLOUD…

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Will you be virtual too?

by
Chanuka Wattegama
on May 14, 2008
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LIRNEasia might not be as high tech as some of the big IT players but in our own way we have made a successful effort to make ourselves a virtual team. Not a choice – that was the only way we could operate in multiple countries (For example, in this cycle, TRE surveys will be in nine countries -  Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand; not to mention CPRSouth 3 in Beijing)without budgets comparable to what INGOs use to run regional networks.

We also thought our own experiences will be useful for others. Hence the Virtual Organisation (VO)  project. It had two aspects; developing the VO and using it to conduct LIRNEasia’s other research projects.

The case study is now out. It describes our efforts,…

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Colloquium: Virtual Organizations

by
Ayesha Zainudeen
on February 18, 2005
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The Virtual Organisation: How do we get there?

Divakar:
How can we get researchers and participants to engage in LIRNEasia activitites? And sustain these relationships?

Money?
-this is tough, since we have limited funds

Professional development?

Look at Shared values.
LIRNEasia has a set of values, that can we abstract from these values that will get people to participate in our activities?

Open Source community is a good example
Highly capable ppl who work across the globe to develop code that is shared freely with anyone. It is very unstructured, but very successful. The participants don’t get paid fro it, but they get the advantage of its use, and its participatory development. How do we resonate from that?

Rohan:
Property right imposed on you in Open Source (according to the Success of Open Source) where you…

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