Spanish American universities more committed to … – Hipertextual

Pinkypills – Istockphoto.com

It is difficult to question effectively the benefits for technological development that provides free software, and not need to. If there is more than logical outside the anticorporativismo that sole assess the implementation of this software in the university environment reasons. For that reason, every year it draws up the Ranking of Universities in Free Software to Spain and Latin America, which “measures the use, dissemination and creation” of himself in them; and we can already see Rusl 2016 .

The 10 Spanish universities with more free software (76)

Christopher Futcher – Istockphoto.com

• 1st. The Miguel Hernández University of Elche . Up three places from the previous year, with 100% implementation. It is the most improved since 2015, sickening 41.3%, is committed to 100% with teaching at free software and its dissemination, the most, and has increased by 122% the number of events on the technology organized in collaboration with other entities; and not only is the Spanish that stands out most clearly in this ranking, but “presents the best annual performance seen to date” .

• 2nd. The University of Granada . Having been the undisputed leader in the five previous editions, it falls a position with 93.4% implementation; but remains that most free software culture and has scored a 87.76% in jointly organized events about this technology.

• 3rd. The University of La Laguna . It is held in place but increases to 81.1% implementation, is the second with more research on free software and has a 64.21% more co-organized events such software.

• 4th. The University of Seville . Up three seats with 61.6% of implantation. It is the second most improved since 2015, 27%, and more free software culture, the fourth most committed to the dissemination of free software and co-organizes one more than 53.51% related events.

• 5th. University of Coruña . Post a position with 60.8% implementation. It is the fifth most committed to free software teaching and dissemination and more culture in this technology.

• 6th. The University of Santiago de Compostela . Go up two seats with 53.9% of implantation. It is the third most improved since 2015, 26.3%, and is more committed to teaching in free software.

• 7th. The University of Vigo . Up three seats with 51.1% of implantation. It is the fourth most improved since 2015, 22.2%, and more committed to teaching in free software.

• 8th. The University of Las Palmas . Falls six places with 48.1% implementation.

• 9th. The University of Zaragoza . Falls four seats with 44.1% implementation.

• 10th. The Polytechnic University of Madrid . Go up no less than twenty seats with 33% of implantation. It is the fifth most improved since 2015, 21.3%, and the third with more research on free software.

Polytechnic University of Catalonia he falls out of the top ten, moving from ninth to sixteenth place; University of Alicante is the second most committed to teaching free software; Open University of Catalonia , which has more research in this technology, and the Polytechnic University of Valencia , the fourth in this, and the University Jaume I , the fifth.

the 10 Latin American universities with more free software (144)

Cathy Yeulet – Istockphoto.com

• 1st. The National University of Callao (Peru) . In 2015, he not even was in the ranking because he had not contemplated, and now looks 100% implementation. It is the fourth most committed to teaching in free software and with greater culture of this technology, and has increased by 59.18% the number of events on the same organized in collaboration with other entities.

• 2nd. The University of Costa Rica . Cae a position with 48.5% implementation. It is the second most committed to the dissemination of free software and makes three more use of open technologies. It is the second with more research on free software and more culture such technology, and the third cooperating with national and international institutions, one co-organizing events 60.84% ​​more about this software, and more committed to its disclosure.

• 3rd. The University of Information Science (Cuba) . Another that was not included in 2015, now with a 48.8% implementation. It is the most collaborates with national and international institutions, co-organizing one 59,18% more events on free software, and the fifth most culture in this technology.

• 4th. The Costa Rica Institute of Technology . A university but had not been analyzed in 2015, this year with a 35.5% implementation. It is the second with more research on free software, the third collaborator with national and international institutions, co-organizing one 78.43% over events on this technology, and the fourth committed to its disclosure.

• 5th. The National University of La Plata (Argentina) . Falls three spots with 33.1% implementation. It is the one that has more free software and culture has increased by 58.52% the number of events on such technology organized in collaboration with other entities.

• 6th. Technological University of Honduras . Nor it issued in 2015, this time with a 30.5% implementation. It is the second largest contributor to national and international entities, 39.16% more co-organizing one event about free software, and the fourth with more research on it.

• 7th. The University of the Republic (Uruguay) . Falls three spots with 26% implementation. It is the most committed to the dissemination of free software and the second with teaching in it, and has increased by 78.43% events on the technology developed in collaboration with other entities.

• 8th. Francisco Marroquin University (Guatemala) . Drops five places with 25.7% implementation. It is the fifth most research on free software and has also an accrued 78.43% the number of events on the technology organized in collaboration with other entities.

• 9th. Salvadoran Lutheran University . They did not examined in 2015, and now has a 24.2% implementation. It is the second most committed to the dissemination of free software, the third most culture in it and the fifth most in research, and has increased by 100% the number of events on it prepared in collaboration with other entities.

• 10th. The Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral (Ecuador) . Falls two spots with 24% of implantation. It has increased by 100% specialized postgraduate studies in free software and technical support to the university community for installation and use, and 78.43% the number of events on this technology organized in collaboration with other entities.

Aron Balogh – Freeimages.com

the Central University of Venezuela falls nine places from ninth to eighth tenth; National University of Cordoba , seventeen positions, the twenty-fifth to second; Catholic University Our Lady of the Assumption , nineteen positions, from sixth to the twenty-fifth; Simon Bolivar University of Venezuela , twenty posts, the seventh to thirty; and the National University of Colombia , nothing less than cuarentaiún positions, from tenth to fifty-first.

The National Autonomous University of Mexico is the most committed with teaching free software; Technological University of Panama , the second and the third this research in this technology; the National Pedagogical University Francisco Morazan (Honduras) , the fifth in their teaching; University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) , which has more research in such software; and Distance State University (Costa Rica) , the fifth most committed to its disclosure.

We recommend