Asia Source is a seven day hands-on workshop aimed at building the technical skills of those working with NGOs in South and South East Asia. It will take place on the outskirts of Bangalore during the end of January/beginning of February 2005.

Asia Source will bring together nearly 100 NGOs and NGO technology support professionals working at the local level across the region, together with a handful of field leaders from Africa, Europe, North America and Latin America. Asia Source is a free and open source software (FOSS) event. It's primary goal is to act as a focal point in increasing the practical uptake of FOSS desktop and tools amongst the voluntary sector in South and South East Asia.

This community building event will be the first of its kind in the region. Previous large scale FOSS events have been policy oriented events, industry trade shows or Linux User Group Events. Asia Source will be the first regional event bringing people together to focus on the practical elements of FOSS deployment specifically within a social context.

Asia Source is part of a larger family of source events. Read more about source events.

The event is co-organised by Mahiti.org (Bangalore) and the Tactical Technology Collective (Amsterdam). The event is guided by an advisory group of established non-profit and FOSS professionals from across the region. The organisers are also collaborating with international NGO technology groups such as the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and Aspiration.

Asia Source is funded with the kind support of Hivos, the Open Society Institute (OSI) and the International Open Source Network (IOSN)