Open source: Africa’s Liberating IT Force

Open source is smashing the paradigm of how information and communications technology (ICT) benefits are delivered to Africans. In the past 40 years, ICT has made minimal impact on the lives of 90% of the people living in Africa because they didn't fit the Western models of how benefits should be delivered to them. It failed to adapt to support the way of life it found, seeking rather to hope that Africa would 'catch up' to the rest of the world.