My conference roommate, Alastair Otter, has written a piece on the state of African free software for his magazine, Tectonic, based on the Idlelo experience (including Microsoft's partipation and platform). (He's mostly convinced me to write a piece on KnowledgeTree too.)
Hi Neil, It would be fun to have a section about Asia and the FOSS movement there on tectonic! Think you can talk with Alastair :)