This Festival is considered the most important free software festival in Latin America. seeks to publicize the advantages of free software, technologies and cultures, within which are the freedom of use, copy, modification and redistribution. It will go until May 16, and will be present in more than 15 cities in the country at different times
The celebration on April 27 will have activities in 12 cities such as: Barranquilla, Cajicá, Cali, Cúcuta, Facatativá, Ibagué, Popayán Quibdó, Sahagún, Santa Marta, Sogamoso and Medellín, where the headquarters will be the Pontificia Bolivariana University, Laureles campus. It will also bring together more than 13 countries, including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Spain, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.
Before the event, Belfor Fabio García Henao, Vice Minister of Digital Transformation stated that, “Through free software, citizen participation and collaboration can be encouraged in the digital transformation, thus contributing to the empowerment of the population through technological tools, as a democratization process to generate economic and social value.”
Finally, during the festival the country, through the Ministry of Information and Communications Technologies, will expose more than 8,000 open data published by nearly 1,300 national and territorial entities by 2024, on the portal data.gov.co. Data that, according to the entity, are used for the development of web and mobile applications, decision-making tools, data journalistic products, academic research and social supervision and control exercises, by academia, developers, civil society and data journalists. .
