This talk was given at the forLoop Lagos meetup about the next Billion users in Lagos Nigeria. Covers how Open source comes into play in enabling and empowering the next billion users.

1. OPEN SOURCE
AN ENABLER FOR THE NEXT BILLION USERS
Abati Adewale

2. WHO AM I?
ABATI “ACEKYD” ADEWALE
Developer Advocate @
Ingressive
Open source Enthusiast
Community Builder
Tutor @ DevLogic.co
Gamer and Basketballer
@acekyd @ace_kyd

3. THE NEXT BILLION USERS
WHAT’S NEEDED FOR THE NEXT BILLION USERS
Infrastructure
Building
Policy Coherence
Technology

4. THE NEXT BILLION USERS
THE NEXT BILLION USERS
May not be tech savvy
Will virtually all be on
mobile
Not necessarily well
educated

5. HOW DOES OPEN
SOURCE COME IN?

6. I’M DOING A (FREE)
OPERATING SYSTEM (JUST
A HOBBY, WON’T BE BIG
AND PROFESSIONAL LIKE
GNU) FOR 386(486) AT
CLONES.
Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux
Source - Wikipedia

7. OPEN SOURCE
OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS THAT HAVE CHANGED THE WORLD
Linux
Android
Firefox
VLC
Wordpress

8. CORE VALUES
OPEN SOURCE HAS 4 CORE VALUES
Transparency
Collaboration
Sharing
Empowerment

9. HIGHLIGHTS
OPEN SOURCE AND THE NEXT BILLION USERS
Building for the next billion should not mean dumbing
down technologies
It should require building a customized experience for
the users
Reliable apps would be built on open source
technologies.
Barrier to entry for entrepreneurs is made lower.

10. HOW DOES OPEN SOURCE COME IN?
Ensure open source software does not become poor
people software.
Contribute to Open knowledge.
Build communities and businesses around open source.
Have businesses share data and other in-house tools to
aid growth in ecosystem.
WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO?

11. BUILDING A BUSINESS FOR THE NEXT BILLION
HOW TO BUILD A BUSINESS AROUND OPEN SOURCE
Build on existing open source software and
sell as proprietary software
Version Lagging
Provide services and support for an open
source project
Dual Licensing

12. WHEN WE ARE TALKING ABOUT BRINGING ON
THE NEXT BILLION USERS, WE NEED TO
ENSURE AFFORDABILITY & SECURITY AND THE
USE OF OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE IS A GREAT
WAY TO ACHIEVE THIS!
Open Source Community
LAST WORDS

13. HTTPS://HACKTOBERFEST.DIGITALOCEAN.COM/

14. FB_INGRESSIVE_GITHUB

15. @acekyd
@ace_kyd