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Free Software Implementation Experiences for the Promotion of the Liquid Society allow us to shape new social scenarios, new ways to interrelate and to organize ourselves. Informa- tion and communication technologies allow us new possibilities to de-integrate the traditional ways we relate each other and integrate them in a different way. Liquid society is in permanent change. Institutions, Public Administrations, firms have transformed themselves and demand new ways of interaction. Public Administrations make use of ICT to promote digital literacy as "the capacity to understand and use sources of information when they are shown via a computer" (Gilster, 1997) in the liquid society. Public Administrations must make the best to implement ICT in order to improve the quality of life of everyone by removing technological and operational barriers. Related to liquid society is the concept of Social Computing as an emergent paradigm character- ized by user-centric, collaborative knowledge OPEN SOURCE AS ENABLER OF LIQUID SOCIETIES Open source migration (F/OSS) was first applied in the sixties. In the nineties it becomes a quite consolidated business alternative. Since then, free software implementation has been studied from both, a technical point of view (Raymond, 1999; Hunter, 2006; Rossi, 2006; Berry, 2008) as well as an eco- nomic emergent possibility in the market (Lerner y Tirole, 2002; Lerner y Tirole, 2005; Riehle, 2007). Free software migration means an efficient solution in terms of costs, specially for the public industry and in contexts demanding great tech- nological resources as it is the case of education (Lerner & Tirole, 2002; Riehle, 2007; Lakhan y Jhunjhunwala, 2008). The implementation of free software tools promotes the innovation and the development in Public Administrations worldwide (David y Steinmueller, 1994; Shiff, 2002; Hippern