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Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
Rishab
Aiyer Ghosh is Founding International and Managing Editor of First Monday,
the most widely read peer-reviewed on-line journal of the Internet. He is
Programme Leader at MERIT/International Institute of Infonomics at the University
of Maastricht, Netherlands. He speaks frequently at conferences on the socio-economics
of the Internet and free/open source software, most recently at the UNCTAD
Commission, Geneva.
He coordinated the European Union -funded FLOSS project, the most comprehensive study of free/libre/open source users and developers, and coordinates the follow-on FLOSSPOLS project on policy support. He is actively involved in initiatives related to government policy on open source, and conducts research funded by the EU, the Dutch government and the US National Science Foundation.
