Insurgent Expertise

The Politics of Free/Livre and Open Source Software in Brazil

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12972014
AutoresAaron Shaw (0000-0003-4330-957X, Internet Society, autor de correspondencia)
Año2011
Volumen8
Número3
Páginas253-272
Fecha de publicación2011-06-16
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Information Technology & Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1933-169X • E-ISSN: 1933-1681
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/19331681.2011.592063
OpenAlexW2019914275
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas18
Referencias citadas31

Under the administration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the Brazilian state has advocated the use of Free/Livre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) throughout the public sector. How did FLOSS adoption gain traction as a developmental strategy across a large federal bureaucracy that had embraced information technology policies supporting export-oriented growth and market liberalization during the 1990s? In a historical case study, I argue that the FLOSS agenda emerged as a result of the actions of a network of insurgent experts working within elite political, technical, and educational institutions. I trace the history of this mobilization and show how a dedicated network of experts brought about conditions for institutional transformation that contradicted prevailing neoliberal policy proscriptions. The Brazilian FLOSS insurgency offers insights into the means by which a group of elites endeavored to reframe debates about technology-driven economic growth around questions of state-led access to source code and knowledge

Bureaucracy · Cognitive reframing · Elite · Open source software · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance · Law · Open Source Software Innovations · Private Equity and Venture Capital · Public Administration · Software