The associate professor and department chair in the School of Communications has published a peer-reviewed article examining the country’s promotion of open source development and support of technological innovation.
“OSS can be a way for developing countries to compete with established technology firms and their proprietary software, given the various concerns about interoperability, regulatory constraints, and software,” wrote Gisclair in the journal. “Mixed-source technology and collaborative agreements are an effective way for developing countries like China to gain a share of the global technology market.”
The article is a result of Gisclair’s fall 2014 sabbatical research project, which also produced three peer-reviewed conference presentations, including a January 2016 presentation at James Madison University.
The Southeast Review of Asian Studies, formerly called the Annals, is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal published annually since 1979 by the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, a nonpolitical, nonprofit scholarly organization dedicated to promoting the study of Asia in the Southeastern region of the United States.