XO Korea/consortium/business support

Summary

It's to support open source business entities working on XO. A half of the shares of those business entities (corporations) shall be owned by olpc Korea or an equivalent organization, and the other half shall be owned by a participating company.

The peculiar features of those open source companies includes;

• all information and technologies will be disclosed transparently
• half of the profits earned will be used for public goodness
• controlled and supported by open source societies worldwide

olpc Korea expects there will be more than 150,000 independent open source corporations in Korea till 2010.

Leading examples

• energy
• construction
• traffic
• bank
  • 나이스정보통신
  • 다날
• accounting
  • 더존
• newspaper
• broadcasting
  • net-wave
• local government
• kindergarten
• elementary school
• secondary school
• college
  • 대신정보통신 - 대학 학사행정
• justice system
• legislation system