Society for Promotion of Alternative Computing and Employment


The Society for Promotion of Alternative Computing and Employment is located in Trivandrum, Kerala, India.

Objective

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 and Open Source Software in academics, governance, corporate and individual use, and to support the use FOSS 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 FOSS, 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.

Intervention

The primary thrust of the intervention of SPACE are: