<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Steven Muegge</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chukwuemeka Afigbo</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Social Innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Open Source Business Resource</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2008</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">12/2008</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://timreview.ca/article/213</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Talent First Network</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ottawa</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">SW Global is an African-based application service provider of information technology infrastructure and software. This article describes how SW Global, a for-profit private sector company, creates high-impact value at universities and governments in developing countries through an innovative business model anchored around service subscriptions, open source software, and open content.
 </style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">December 2008</style></issue><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Articles</style></work-type><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Carleton University
Steven Muegge is a faculty member of the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Professor Muegge teaches within the Technology Innovation Management program. His current research interests include open source software, open innovation, and open source ecosystems. </style></custom1><custom2><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">SW Global
Chukwuemeka Afigbo is Technology Manager of College Solutions at SW Global. He joined SW Global in 2002 in its first month of operations as a software developer (employee number 9), and has played an active role in more than fifty service deployments at universities in Africa and Asia. He is a recent graduate of the Technology Innovation Management program at Carleton University in Ottawa Canada. His research examined the adoption of open standards within open source Learning Management Systems. His other research interests include open source software, open innovation and how tertiary institutions use ICT to enhance their core processes. </style></custom2></record></records></xml>