“Speaking to the GovTech 2006 attendees yesterday, Mark
Shuttleworth, CEO of the Shuttleworth Foundation, urged South
Africa to decide on a global best practice in ICT strategy in order
to best position the country for success in the technology
game.“Shuttleworth cited a number of countries as setting the pace
for emerging nations using progressive methods to transform
themselves–from South Korea using broadband to evolve its economy
and moving towards open source software as a key enabling
technology, Spain driving technology into education using free
software and China committing to putting all government procurement
onto Linux by 2010…”