Background

"In 2001, UNESCO began to lend its support to the Free Software/Open Source movements, and has recognized that in the software computer science field, they play a key role to extend and disseminate human knowledge. The UNESCO Free Software Portal was developed and published in November 2001. It gives access to local and remote documents that are reference works for the Free and Open Source Software movements, as well as to websites which are hosting the most popular and useful Open Source/Free software packages in UNESCO fields of competence."

• UNESCO Free Software Portal
• UNDP/UNESCO FOSS Consultation (24-25 November 2003), UNESCO Paris, France:
  Background
  Report of the Consultation [PDF]
• FSF/UNESCO Free Software Directory