Fair Trade Software
Back in 2010 we were helping Dutch students develop employability skills, and we thought “hold on, who’s going to do this for people in Africa?” So we invented Fair Trade Software.
Based on co-development partnerships and Fair Trade principles, Fair Trade Software is an organisational model to produce software to international standards whilst giving IT professionals in developing countries the chance to learn best working practice and build skills they can use on projects in their own countries.
An independent organisation, the Fair Trade Software Foundation, now governs and runs the initiative with a growing number of partners and projects around the world. Take a look at the FTSF website to see how you can contribute to improving the world we live in.
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