Over the past two years, I’ve had the privilege of expanding my open source developer advocacy to include countries in the Global South — Brazil last year, and Nigeria this year. What struck me during these trips is that a country lagging behind wealthier, industrialised economies doesn’t mean being left out of technological progress. Quite the opposite. Cutting-edge technologies are very much present. Yet, a closer look reveals a distinctive pattern: gaps in the usual technology adoption timeline. Take communications, for example — wireless networks are everywhere, and often far more reliable than wired infrastructure has ever been in those countries. The lesson is clear: as they advance, Global South countries don’t need to follow the same incremental path taken elsewhere. They can leapfrog transitional technologies and move straight to the most advanced solutions. This was the essence of my message to the audience at OSCAFest 2025 a few weeks ago. During the event, which took place...
The 2025 edition of the Eclipse Embedded and IoT developer survey is now underway! Take the survey now – it only takes a few minutes. Your insights and opinions will help shape the future of Embedded and IoT systems. Let's make a difference together! Although our public archives only date back to 2019 , the Eclipse Foundation has been conducting this survey in one form or another since 2015. To my knowledge, it is the only one of its kind managed by an open source community. Your participation in this survey is not just a contribution, but a vital part of the open source community's growth. Moreover, all of our survey reports are made available under the CC BY 4.0 license , meaning that you can freely share and adapt them simply by giving appropriate credit. In other words, your participation in the survey benefits not just commercial interests, but the entire open source community. As usual, the survey will gather precious data on embedded microcontroller architectures, commu...