Knowledge is power. That was the premise of my introductory presentation last week in Kigali. The democratization of knowledge, information, and data is a broad introduction to equally broad topics, such as free software, open source, open knowledge, open data, and programming as literacy.
I am a long-standing enthusiast of free software and open source. In 2006, while I was in college, I contacted Canonical and received approximately 200 Ubuntu CDs. I shared these CDs in public secondary schools as part of a personal initiative to promote open-source literacy in schools.
