Society For Promotion of Alternative Computing and Employment - SPACE, Kerala, India
SPACE is an independent research and development organisation that has members from academia, the IT industry, professional societies and government. The objective of SPACE is to promote the use of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in academics, governance, corporate and individual use, and use FOSS for employment generation. It has been instrumental in several important free software based developmental interventions like ICT in education, community radio, ICT for disabled etc. It has played significant role in ICT policy formulation of Government of Kerala, a region in south India. Now SPACE is in the process of expanding its activities across India.