This is the third Global Software Development workshop organized at the International Conference on Software Engineering (previous two workshops [3][4]), and it is a continuation of the ICSE workshops on Software Engineering held over the Internet from 1998 to
2001. The issues discussed at the workshop have focused on addressing problems due to cultural and organizational differences in multi-site and multi-national software enterprises as well as the technical challenges experienced by software development at a distance. This is emphasized in the workshop reports [1][2][4] which