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ParTecs, Participatory Technologies, was an international software company specialized in Open Source Software and Free Software solutions based in Rome, Italy.

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ParTecs maintained administrative offices in Rome and Brussels and a research and development center in Bangalore, India with over 20 people.

Bangalore Capital of Karnataka, India

Bangalore, officially known as Bengaluru, is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of over ten million, making it a megacity and the third-most populous city and fifth-most populous urban agglomeration in India. It is located in southern India on the Deccan Plateau at an elevation of over 900 m (3,000 ft) above sea level, which is the highest among India's major cities. Its multireligious and cosmopolitan character is reflected by its more than 1000 temples, 400 mosques, 100 churches, 40 Jain derasars, three Sikh gurdwaras, two Buddhist viharas and one Parsi fire temple located in an area of 741 km² of the metropolis. The religious places are further represented by the proposed Chabad of the Jewish community. The numerous Bahá'ís have a society called the Bahá'í Centre.

All ParTecs activities and areas of expertise have been incorporated by the Telematics Freedom Foundation since January 2007.

Telematics Freedom Foundation is a non-profit organization which aims to bring citizens, in the age of telematics, Internet, mobile phones and the web, all those freedoms and rights that the Free Software Movement has already brought to PC users worldwide.

Products

ParTecs' flagship product was the PARTECS Platform from 2001 to 2006, basically a Political Social Networking platform for 2-way communication that enabled members or officials of large multi-language organizations to complement their regular face-to-face meetings, with effective participation in formal and informal deliberative processes via Internet, Email, Mail-in and Fax-in forms. Several pieces and documentation of the platform are still accessible on the web.

Internet Global system of connected computer networks

The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), electronic mail, telephony, and file sharing. Some publications no longer capitalize "internet".

Email method of exchanging digital messages between people over a network

Electronic mail is a method of exchanging messages ("mail") between people using electronic devices. Invented by Ray Tomlinson, email first entered limited use in the 1960s and by the mid-1970s had taken the form now recognized as email. Email operates across computer networks, which today is primarily the Internet. Some early email systems required the author and the recipient to both be online at the same time, in common with instant messaging. Today's email systems are based on a store-and-forward model. Email servers accept, forward, deliver, and store messages. Neither the users nor their computers are required to be online simultaneously; they need to connect only briefly, typically to a mail server or a webmail interface for as long as it takes to send or receive messages.

Mail System for transporting documents and other small packages

The mail or post is a system for physically transporting postcards, letters, and parcels. A postal service can be private or public, though many governments place restrictions on private systems. Since the mid-19th century, national postal systems have generally been established as government monopolies, with a fee on the article prepaid. Proof of payment is often in the form of adhesive postage stamps, but postage meters are also used for bulk mailing. Modern private postal systems are typically distinguished from national postal agencies by the names "courier" or "delivery service".

The PARTECS platform was presented at the World Summit on the Information Society in 2005, as a result of a partnership with UNESCO. [1]

World Summit on the Information Society

The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was a two-phase United Nations-sponsored summit on information, communication and, in broad terms, the information society that took place in 2003 in Geneva and in 2005 in Tunis. One of its chief aims was to bridge the global digital divide separating rich countries from poor countries by spreading access to the Internet in the developing world. The conferences established 17 May as World Information Society Day.

UNESCO Specialised agency of the United Nations

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris. Its declared purpose is to contribute to peace and security by promoting international collaboration through educational, scientific, and cultural reforms in order to increase universal respect for justice, the rule of law, and human rights along with fundamental freedom proclaimed in the United Nations Charter. It is the successor of the League of Nations' International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation.

It has also released many Open Source components for Content Management System (CMS) webmasters to best manage and integrate their sites:

Licensing

ParTecs also tried to promote the PPL [8] (ParTecs Public License), an Open source license which introduced a "delay" period of 12 months before the code becoming fully GPL'ed, as a way to incentive businesses to invest capital in development of new open source software without the risk of having their competition offering the same code the day after the first public release.

Notes

  1. ↑ "UNESCO Partnership with PARTECS SRL". unesco.org. 2005-11-18. Retrieved 2009-12-07.[ dead link ] UNESCO Partnership with PARTECS SRL.
  2. ↑ "PloneSkype". sourceforge.net. 2006-09-16. Retrieved 2009-12-07. Sourceforge
  3. ↑ "PloneCaptcha". sourceforge.net. 2007-04-14. Retrieved 2009-12-07. Sourceforge
  4. ↑ "PloneInvite". sourceforge.net. 2006-09-16. Retrieved 2009-12-07. Sourceforge
  5. ↑ "TestableEmailer". partecs.com. 2005-11-18. Retrieved 2009-12-07. Sourceforge
  6. ↑ "DateBox". plone.org. 10 April 2006. Retrieved 2009-12-07. Sourceforge
  7. ↑ "Multifile". python.org. 2007-10-23. Retrieved 2009-12-07. PyPI
  8. ↑ Guerreschi, Rufo (2005-11-18). "Partecs Public License". partecs.com. Retrieved 2009-12-07. Partecs Public License
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