SPACE is a registered society that has members from academia, the IT industry, professional societies such as IEEE and Computer Society of India, and the IT Administration of the Government of Kerala. The vision of SPACE is to promote the use of Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) in academics, governance, corporate and individual use, and to support the use FLOSS for employment generation in Kerala.

The VME model promoted by SPACE envisages a decentralized and distributed mode of IT development where local employment, particularly using FLOSS, is promoted and facilitated. SPACE intends to promote more VMEs that can take up different services in Kerala, especially in smaller towns and rural areas.
The primary thrust are of the intervention are:

• Promote the use of FLOSS in the public, private, and governmental sectors as well as for personal/home use
• Develop a model for FLOSS- based employment generation that is appropriate to Kerala's context, by identifying appropriate business opportunities and providing support services including training and micro business incubation
• Carry out R & D activities for the development of essential prototypes that bridge existing gaps in software, so as to enable widespread use of FLOSS
• Ensure that Kerala is able to develop sufficient numbers of high-quality human resources in the FLOSS domain

Contact
SPACE
C-11, Elankom Gardens
Vellayambalam
Thiruvananthapuram 10
Kerala
Ph: 0471 2318997

Email: contact@space-kerala.org

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