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Juba, the world's first open source city?

By Stephen Kovats for r0g media

JUBA, South Sudan, 20 June 2012

In the age of social networks, citizen media and digital collaboration, #OSJUBA seeks to apply the means and tools of creative open source culture to post-conflict development. #OSJUBA hosts their first event on June 21, 2012 in Berlin to mobilise free culture, accessible technologies and hacktivist communities in creating a vision for the new capital of South Sudan.

Full article at http://r0g-media.org/osjuba/

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