Coding a Revolution.
Three years ago, Iran decided to switch its government computer system to open-source software, which gave the Islamic Republic one of the most advanced groups of female coders anywhere in the world. A recent EU survey found that just 1.5 percent of European open-source coders are female, but in Ir...
| Publicado en: | Foreign Policy no. 159; pp. 93 - 94 |
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Foreign Policy
March/April 2007
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