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Siyavula to bring free and open resources to education
Simon Dingle, Johannesburg (South Africa) · May 19th, 2008 5:22 pm · 31 votes · no comments made
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Siyavula is an ambitious project that aims to transform education in South Africa by providing free, open and curriculum-aligned educational resources. Siyavula means ‘we are opening’ in Nguni and is an apt description of the initiative that will provide content via an online portal where educators can collaborate and create resources, leveraging Creative Commons licenses.
The... [ read ]
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Call for comments for the iSummit 2008 venue
Noguchi (Japan) · Aug 02nd, 2007 10:37 pm · 49 votes · 14 comments
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Dear all,
Hello from Tokyo!
Once again, it was so nice to see/meet you all in iSummit 2007. I really had a nice time, and it's always nice to see all the peers working in a creative way to enhance the sharing economy!
As you know, the next year iSummit will be held in Sapporo, Japan. We have already started the preparation for the next year, and we have to decide the... [ read ]
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open education is like a flock of migratory geese
philipp (South Africa) · Jun 18th, 2007 3:24 am · 29 votes · 1 comment
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The open education track would like to draw you esteemed attention to the efforts made by some of us, to visualise the true meaning of open education.
Open education is like a flock of migratory geese that move back and forth between North and South. The flock combines birds from all places. Open education is not something that is confined to just the North or the South. It... [ read ]
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Freeing the public domain by CC licensing
Alek Tarkowski, Warszawa (Poland) · Jun 01st, 2007 9:15 am · 34 votes · 5 comments
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A group called Public Resource is protesting the actions of American Smithsonian Institute, which at the site SmithsonianImages.SI.Edu asserts copyright to over 6000 historical photographs, many of which are in the public domain according to the activists.
The group has downloaded low quality scans available for free (high quality versions have to be bought from the Smithsonian)... [ read ]
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Why bloggers should use Creative Commons licences
Paul Jacobson, Johannesburg Gauteng (South Africa) · Mar 28th, 2007 12:38 pm · 30 votes · 2 comments
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Blogs are conversational tools. In my mind, the blogging movement's philosophical parent is the groundbreaking work, The Cluetrain Manifesto, which pointed out that markets are conversations. A blog is designed to facilitate conversations. Most blogs have certain common elements, which have come to be regarded as defining characteristics of what blogs are. These include comments... [ read ]
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Tactical Technology's newest NGO-in-a-box launched
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The Tactical Technology Collective is a European based non-profit that aims to advance the use of new technologies as a tool for civil society. One of the core projects of Tactical Tech is NGO-in-a-box, a series of Free and Open Source Software toolkits covering areas such as Audio and Video, Security, Mobile devices and now, Open Publishing.
The editions are distributed quite... [ read ]
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Why don't artists use open source software?
Karen (United States) · Jun 18th, 2007 3:23 am · 48 votes · 8 comments
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By Karen Rustad and Nelson Pavlosky
The topic of the Saturday noon peer production stream session was "Why don't artists use open source software?" However, as was quickly established by the panel, there was also an important companion question: "Why don't developers make free art?"
Artists feel pressured to use open software for ideological reasons, but when they try it typically... [ read ]
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Captain Copyright reappears in Colombia
carobotero, Bogotá (Colombia) · Apr 01st, 2008 12:33 am · 34 votes · 5 comments
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This is the story of the tropical reinvention of "Captain Copyright", a cartoon superhero who was supposed to devoted his life to teaching children the virtues of copyright. Captain Copyright was the brainchild
of Access Copyright, a Canadian collecting society, and the campaign appeared at the end of 2006, "Captain Copyright" was usually portrayed flying in at the scene of a "crime"... [ read ]
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Recalling the Spirit of the FOSS Movement
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Software engineering and coding is an interesting profession especially when you get to be part of a global revoluation, more of a movement as it takes various forms regionally and globally becomes an Ecosystem that helps humanity benefit at large. Yes, I am referring to the FOSS movement and now after becomming a member of the iCommons community, I would like to share and relate... [ read ]
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Random: DIY Publishing and What's in a Name?
philipp (South Africa) · Jun 16th, 2007 11:16 pm · 41 votes · 8 comments
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Being at the iSummit is a bit like sitting inside a blizzard of shooting stars of ideas and struggling not to blink. What does that mean? Well, you find yourself on a bus with two publishing experts, discussing the viability of setting up print-on-demand (the experts call it just-in-time printing) facilities in South Africa, and how they would link with the commercial publishers... [ read ]
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Lessig on Digital Barbarism
Lawrence Lessig has posted a review of David Halperin's recent book, Digital Barbarism.
Halperin, who authored the (in)famous New York Times article calling for perpetual copyright, has now compiled his ideas into a book. Lessig offers a much-needed critique, including citing misconceptions about Creative Commons (Halperin conflates it not only with "freeware" with software... more
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