http://www.icommons.org/ 2008-5-10T09:09:01Z http://www.icommons.org/images/i_commons_01.gif http://www.icommons.org/ Uthango Social Investments, an NGO based in Capetown South Africa, is partnering with French telecommunications company Orange to present the first Africa Day in Second Life on Thursday, April 24 from 10:00 to 18:00 SLT/PST.<br /> <br /> Africa Day in Second Life is a celebration of African content development in virtual worlds and access to technology. The first event includes a mini-conference,... http://www.icommons.org/calendar/virtual-africa-day-in-second-life 2008-4-24T20:20:20Z Pedagogical Faultlines is an International conference of high-level knowledge and experience in new concepts and ideas of learning, hosted by the Waag Society and Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam. <br /> <br /> The focus of this event is on the challenges in contemporary pedagogy, including the use of new media tools, but also exploring institutional and cultural issues. More at:... http://www.icommons.org/calendar/pedagogical-faultlines 2007-9-21T16:13:23Z "T-DOSE is a yearly event held in The Netherlands to promote use and development of Open Source Software. During this event Open Source projects, developers and visitors can exchange ideas and knowledge." http://www.icommons.org/calendar/t-dose 2007-8-27T16:48:01Z " As the UK's only open source event for business decision makers and technical professionals, LinuxWorld is the showcase for the best in open source technology and innovation. <br /> <br /> LinuxWorld has proven to be the leading industry event, delivering growth year on year on its visitor base of decision makers and authorised buyers. Combined with a conference programme which brings... http://www.icommons.org/calendar/linuxworld-2007 2007-8-27T16:51:57Z On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of India’s independence, Creative Commons India is organizing a short film contest, on “Better governance through Right To Information”.<br /> <br /> We at Creative Commons [CC], India feel that the effective use of the Right to Information is really critical for creating better governance models across the length and breadth of our country. The CC... http://www.icommons.org/calendar/chitra-katha-creative-commons-short-film-contest-1 2007-10-01T18:37:13Z The 2007 conference will focus on the ICT challenges facing the CSO sector, highlighting and promoting practical benefits, opportunities and lessons learned to date. It will provide both CSOs that are ICT-enabled, as well as those organisations that are considering introducing ICT solutions to their work, with an important opportunity to discuss critical issues of common concern... http://www.icommons.org/calendar/sangonet-icts-for-civil-society-conference-exhibition-2007 2007-7-11T17:10:03Z The Pan-Commonwealth Forum (PCF5) is for practitioners, researchers, planners and policy makers in the fields of open and distance learning and development. The forum will provide opportunities to share experience and expertise and contribute to future thinking about access to learning. The outcomes from the conference will be relevant across the world as a contribution towards... http://www.icommons.org/calendar/pan-commonwealth-forum-5 2007-7-10T20:20:21Z Web 2.0 Expo Berlin brings together the most innovative and successful internet industry figures and companies to share examples of business models, development paradigms and design strategies. Attendees from both the corporate and start-up worlds should attend to learn to tap the power of Web 2.0.<br /> <br /> Some of the many elements of Web 2.0 Expo Berlin include:<br /> * A five-track conference... http://www.icommons.org/calendar/web-20-expo-1 2007-8-14T21:27:02Z On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind - the environment. Every blogger will post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own topic. Our aim is to get everyone talking towards a better future.<br /> <br /> Blog Action Day is about MASS participation. That means we need you! Here are 3 ways to participate:<br /> <br /> ... http://www.icommons.org/calendar/blog-action-day 2007-8-22T17:28:17Z As part of the celebrations around Heritage Day in September 2007, iCommons has just launched a project called iHeritage. The aim is simple – to build an online repository of South African culture and heritage – as lived in the day-to-day lives of ordinary South Africans, to be added to the growing collection of indigenous content on Wikimedia Commons.<br /> <br /> Find out more about the... http://www.icommons.org/calendar/iheritage 2007-9-21T16:11:54Z NewMusicSA is proud to present their 2nd Unyazi festival, Fear of the Known, a festival of “extreme listening.” <br /> <br /> Curated by James Webb, co-produced by Pro Helvetia Cape Town and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, and supported by the Goethe Institute, Institut Français d'Afrique du Sud, the Embassy of France, the Danish Arts Council, the Embassy of the Kingdom... http://www.icommons.org/calendar/an-invitation-to-unyazi-2-fear-of-the-known-1 2008-3-10T16:31:28Z “Open Culture in CC” is the theme of the first CC Korea International Conference, a day-long event to be held on Friday, March 14th.<br /> <br /> The CC Korea team, lead by Chief Project Lead Jongsoo Yoon, have organized the conference not only to celebrate the 3rd birthday of CC Korea and its localized CC licenses, but as a platform to promote Open Culture in Korea, both qualitatively and... http://www.icommons.org/calendar/1st-cc-korea-international-conference 2008-3-03T16:27:06Z CALL FOR PAPER<br /> TRACK WITHIN THE EURAM Conference 2008<br /> CREATING VALUE THROUGH DIGITAL COMMONS.<br /> How collective management of IPRs, open innovation models, and digital <br /> communities shape the industrial dynamics in the XXI century.<br /> <br /> <br /> TRACK CHAIRS:<br /> Cristina Rossi, Politecnico di Milano, cristina1.rossi@polimi.it<br /> Lorenzo Benussi, University of Turin, lorenzo.benussi@unito.it<br /> Jean... http://www.icommons.org/calendar/euram-conference-2008-call-for-paper-creating-value-through-digital-commons 2008-2-22T19:35:29Z Please save the date for the third annual Access to Knowledge Conference<br /> (A2K3) on September 8-10, 2008. <br /> <br /> In a departure from precedent, please note that this year's conference will take place in Geneva, Switzerland. The location and timing will enable this year's event to reach out to a significant new audience of international organisations and policy-makers, particularly... http://www.icommons.org/calendar/access-to-knowledge-conference-a2k3-geneva-8-10-sept-2008 2008-2-21T23:23:07Z The Free Knowledge, Free Technology Conference (FKFT) is the first<br /> international event which will centre on the production and sharing of<br /> educational and training materials in the field of Free Software and<br /> Open Standards.<br /> <br /> Free Software, as opposed to proprietary software, can<br /> be copied, studied, modified and redistributed without restrictions.<br /> Moreover, open standards,... http://www.icommons.org/calendar/free-knowledge-free-technology-conference-2008-1 2008-2-21T22:25:11Z "Asia and Commons in the Information Age (ACIA) is a self-sponsored workshop organised by people interested in the commons in the Asia Pacific region. These people, for example, are from the Creative Commons jurisdiction project teams, are engaged in commons-based projects, or are academics doing research on Asia and/or the commons."<br /> <br /> Above information from the ACIA website. <br /> <br /> Registration... http://www.icommons.org/calendar/acia-asia-and-commons-in-the-information-age 2008-1-14T16:08:37Z COMMUNIA organizes it's first workshop on Technology and the Public Domain in Torino (Italy), on 18 January 2008.<br /> <br /> Digital technologies have enabled new ways to appropriate public goods as well as emerging and innovative methods to create, share and use them. Therefore, it is no surprise that technology occupies a prominent role in the international debate about the "digital commons".... http://www.icommons.org/calendar/communia-workshop-technology-and-the-public-domain 2007-12-17T21:56:40Z A birthday party for Creative Commons for all of the friends, users, developers, and soon-to-be friends of Creative Commons - a continuous birthday celebration and synchronization to light up the blogosphere, explore CC-licensed content, and to meet up with friends.<br /> <br /> If you're not able to make it one of these global birthday bashes, then don't fret. You can still:<br /> <br /> * catch... http://www.icommons.org/calendar/cc5-birthday-parties-around-the-globe 2007-12-10T05:38:06Z Join CCau staff & friends of Creative Commons a for champagne, snags & soy at the Australian celebrations of the CC 5th birthday at the Birthday BBQ Bash. <br /> <br /> We're tag-teaming with Berlin's party on the 14th to keep the CC celebrations going all weekend. http://www.icommons.org/calendar/ccau-birthday-bbq-bash 2007-12-09T07:56:59Z Bloodspell: The rise of machinima<br /> Viewing and panel<br /> <br /> Bloodspell is the world's first feature-length machinima, and it is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Bloodspell "is a story of a world where men and women carry magic in their blood, and spilling it can unleash terrible power."<br /> <br /> This event is organised by the London Metropolitan... http://www.icommons.org/calendar/bloodspell-and-the-raise-of-machinima 2007-11-05T16:53:14Z txtBusca http://www.icommons.org/home/busca.php Search in iCommons.org