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                      <title>Business chambers eye shift to free, open source software amid rising operating costs </title>
                      <link>http://www.iosn.net/Members/fsarmiento3/pccifossmindanao</link>
                      <description>KORONADAL CITY, Sept. 18 (PNA) – The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) is taking another look at the free and open source software (FOSS) as a possible option to help reduce the rising operating costs of mainstream businesses and industries in the country. </description>
                      <author>fsarmiento3</author>
                      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:29:55 +0530</pubDate>
                      

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                      <title>*** (CLOSED) APPLICATION PERIOD EXTENDED to SEPT 21st *** Final Call: Asia Source 3, Silang, Cavite, Philippines, November 6-12, 2009</title>
                      <link>http://www.iosn.net/asean-3/final_call_asiasource3</link>
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                      <author>amarcelo</author>
                      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:44:33 +0530</pubDate>
                      

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                      <title>Second Call: Asia Source 3</title>
                      <link>http://www.iosn.net/asean-3/2nd_call_asiasource_3</link>
                      <description>Released August 21, 2009</description>
                      <author>amarcelo</author>
                      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:35:57 +0530</pubDate>
                      

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                      <title>Open Source in Laos</title>
                      <link>http://www.iosn.net/Members/yolynne/OpenSourceInLaos</link>
                      <description>Interview on Anousak Souphavanh - Chief Technical Advisor Organisation of Lao Open Source, Lao PDR </description>
                      <author>yolynne</author>
                      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:30:13 +0530</pubDate>
                      

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                      <title>OSI Tech Days 2009 Kicks Off In Chennai! - EFY Times</title>
                      <link>http://www.iosn.net/Members/pavithra/osi-tech-days-2009-kicks-off-in-chennai-efy-times</link>
                      <description></description>
                      <author>pavithra</author>
                      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:34:26 +0530</pubDate>
                      

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                      <title>FOSS Bridge EU-Vietnam: High level training material and networks</title>
                      <link>http://www.iosn.net/asean-3/countries/vietnam/FOSS%20Bridge%20EU-Vietnam</link>
                      <description>FOSS Bridge EU-Vietnam has been promoting Southeast Asian software industries and cooperation with Europe through innovative collaboration on FOSS and business development since 2006. </description>
                      <author>balthas</author>
                      
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                      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:40:00 +0530</pubDate>
                      

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                      <title>FOSS Training / workshop under ASEAN Cooperation at C-DAC, Chennai, India</title>
                      <link>http://www.iosn.net/south-asia/countries/india/news/foss-training-workshop-under-asean-cooperation-at-c-dac-chennai</link>
                      <description></description>
                      <author>berasmusa</author>
                      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:38:40 +0530</pubDate>
                      

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                      <title>Nepal's first FOSS Training and Research Center Opened</title>
                      <link>http://www.iosn.net/south-asia/countries/nepal/news/nepal-foss-training-n-research-center</link>
                      <description>Nepal's first FOSS Training and Research Center is opened at Brihaspati Vidyasadan School (BVS) at Naxal, Kathmandu, Nepal. This Center has been made possible by the financial help from Help Nepal Network and BVS Alumni and technical help from FOSS Nepal, the community involved in spreading free and open source technologies in Nepal. </description>
                      <author>subir</author>
                      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:30:52 +0530</pubDate>
                      

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                      <title>SFD2008 Competition: FOSS Nepal makes it two in a row</title>
                      <link>http://www.iosn.net/south-asia/countries/nepal/news/sfd08-winners</link>
                      <description>FOSS Nepal Community has been declared one of the winners of Software Freedom Day 2008 Best Event Competition. The other winners are from Nicaragua and the Philippines. This is the second time in a row that the Nepal team has been able to win the award.</description>
                      <author>subir</author>
                      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:14:13 +0530</pubDate>
                      

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                      <title>ODF OLYMPIAD 2008</title>
                      <link>http://www.iosn.net/south-asia/countries/india/news/odf-olympiad-2008</link>
                      <description></description>
                      <author>berasmusa</author>
                      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:10:00 +0530</pubDate>
                      

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                      <title>Celebration of SFD in Basilan a success</title>
                      <link>http://www.iosn.net/asean-3/countries/philippines/news/celebration-of-sfd-in-basilan-a-success</link>
                      <description>Mindanao Open Source Society together with the COMTECH Institute Inc. and  D’COMTECHIAN has successfully celebrated FOSS@CLASS.</description>
                      <author>rjian</author>
                      
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                      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:51:40 +0530</pubDate>
                      

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                      <title>EXTENDED to OCTOBER 10th -- CALL FOR INSTITUTIONAL PARTICIPATION: IOSN-InWEnt Training of Trainers on the FOSS Toolkit for SMEs</title>
                      <link>http://www.iosn.net/asean-3/call_for_applications/call-for-institutional-participation-iosn-inwent-training-of-trainers-on-the-foss-toolkit-for-smes</link>
                      <description>Manila, November 4 to 7, 2008

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                      <author>amarcelo</author>
                      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:36:41 +0530</pubDate>
                      

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                      <title>"Open Source &amp; More IT for African Business" - release of advanced e-learning courses on Information Technology by InWEnt/it@ab </title>
                      <link>http://www.iosn.net/opensource_and_more_IT</link>
                      <description>01.09.2008 - InWEnt/it@ab releases a series of advanced e-learning courses on Information Technology (IT)- "Open Source &amp; More IT for African Business" focussing on the needs of business related IT consultancy in Africa. The course is now online at the following URL: http://cle2.it-inwent.net/LearningSpace/osam/  </description>
                      <author>amarcelo</author>
                      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:40:12 +0530</pubDate>
                      

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                      <title>One Nation: Unity for Software Freedom. Celebrating Software Freedom Day 2008 in the Philippines</title>
                      <link>http://www.iosn.net/Members/rjian/one-nation-unity-for-software-freedom-celebrating-software-freedom-day-2008-in-the-philippines</link>
                      <description>Philippines to celebrate Software Freedom Day</description>
                      <author>rjian</author>
                      
                          <category>Philippines</category>
                      
                      
                          <category>Software Freedom Day</category>
                      
                      <pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:45:46 +0530</pubDate>
                      

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                      <title>Malaysia's schools get OpenOffice.org</title>
                      <link>http://www.iosn.net/asean-3/countries/malaysia/news/malaysia-s-schools-get-openoffice.org</link>
                      <description>The Malaysian government has unveiled plans to roll out OpenOffice.org in schools across the nation--a move that will affect some 300,000 PCs.</description>
                      <author>kaeru</author>
                      
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                      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:20:49 +0530</pubDate>
                      

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