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President Correa, “Citizens Must Control Technology”

Categories: Latin America, Ecuador, Citizen Media, Governance, Technology

It is increasingly important that citizens control technology. That is why we must expand the use of these open tools in our society.

The Free Software Association of Ecuador has published an open letter [1] [es] to the recently re-elected [2] president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, encouraging him to take action and enforce the use free software [3] in his administration in response to a bid by the Internal Revenue Service to acquire licenses from Microsoft Office.