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ICFOSS

Organization in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

Field	Value
name	International Centre for Free and Open Source Software
logo	ICFOSS_logo.png
logo_size	200px
image	Entrance of International Center for Free and Open Soure Software, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India DSC 5451.JPG
caption	Entrance of ICFOSS at Green Field Stadium, Thiruvananthapuram
type	Government
owner	Government of Kerala
founded_date	28 August 2009
key_people	Sasi P. Meethal
budget	5.5 Crores
staff	100
location	Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
origins	2001 Conference "Freedom First!"
homepage	https://icfoss.in/[https://malayalam.icfoss.org/](https://malayalam.icfoss.org/)

International Centre for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS) is an autonomous organization set up by the Government of Kerala, India and having the combined mandate of popularizing Free and Open Source Software for universal use; consolidating the early FOSS work done in Kerala; and networking with different nations, communities and governments to collaboratively promote FOSS.

Origins

Kerala was the first state in India to formally adopt a pro-FOSS IT policy in 2001. This main impetus for this step came from the landmark conference "Freedom First!" convened by a group of activists and supported by the government of Kerala, where the Free Software Foundation of India (FSF-India) was inaugurated by Richard Stallman, the founder of the GNU Project.

Genesis

Kerala followed the 2001 conference with a conference series "Free Software, Free Society (FSFS)", held in 2005 and 2008 (with the third of the series being convened in the second half of 2011. This event also commemorated the tenth anniversary of the 2001 conference). In 2008, the Government of Kerala set up a commission under the leadership of Dr. Rahul De of IIM Bangalore to study how to take forward the momentum that Kerala had built up in FOSS. The activist community proposed to the Commission that an International Centre be set up that has a clear mandate on co-ordinating all FOSS efforts in Kerala, and also continued the multi-nation, multistakeholder networking that commenced from the FSFS conferences.

Activities

Handbook on e-Governance, Malayalam Spell Checker
T-Slide, mouse for people with motor disability
Kerala's first public LoRaWAN Network in Technopark Campus to promote Open Source IoT.
Low-cost telepresence robot developed on open source platform

Image Gallery

File:Sunil Thonikkuzhiyil ICFOSS.jpg|Sunil T.T, Director ICFOSS (2023)

References

[[Free and open-source software#Adoption by governments]]

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