The global growth of open source continues to increase across the private sector, government and individuals. Red Hat presents this study to the community as a framework and tool for furthering the interest and understanding of open source adoption. The study measures open source using two separate indices: one for activity and another for environment. The activity index measures the amount of open source currently present in a country and includes concrete factors such as existing open source and open standards policies and the number of open source software users or producers.

The environment index includes factors at a country level that may further, or coexist with, open source activity such as a high number of Internet users.

An interactive map highlighting country rankings is available here:

http://www.redhat.com/about/where-is-open-source/activity/