|
home · profiles · user: rebecca kahn, icommons reporter
|
Rebecca Kahn, iCommons reporter (641)
South Africa
|
| |
profile |
| |
|
| |
| |
| last contributions published |
 |
|
|
| |
|
| |
articles · You Can’t Share What You Don’t Have
24/4/2008 16:37 · 22 votes · no comments
A Closer Look at South Africa’s Social Media Construction Capacity
South Africans have been watching a lot of YouTube lately. And for all the wrong reasons. In February of this year, a story broke about a group of white male students at the University of the Free State, (a traditionally conservative Afrikaans campus in the town of Bloemfontein, the judicial capital of the country)...
articles · Evolution Online
17/4/2008 17:22 · 28 votes · no comments
There's good news for scientists, researchers, students and fans of evolution all over the world - the Darwin Online project, run by Cambridge University and the Charles Darwin Trust are working on putting copies of all of Darwin's published notes, letters and manuscripts into a free online repository, open to anyone who is interested.
At the moment 43,000 pages of searchable...
|
| |
|
| |
| contributions not published |
|
|
|
| |
|
| |
calendar· 8th International Conference on the Law Via The Internet
10/7/2007 20:58 · 1 comment
This conference, catering primarily to lawyers examines themes relating to doctrine, document preservation and legal information overload. Doctrine and its production and publication are very high profile. Indeed, issues related to documents that complement primary sources of law are certainly the next frontier. Preservation of both pre-digital law and that born today in digital...
articles · Organisation Spotlight: Safe Creative
24/4/2008 19:12 · no comments
A few years ago Juan Palacio, a Spanish software expert, wrote a book and wanted to share it on the Internet as a PDF document. This got him wondering whether it is possible to register the file’s original creator, and after some research he found that in his native country this was not possible unless he printed the book out on paper first. The lack of facilities to register digital...
|
| |
|
| |
| contributions in the voting queue |
|
|
|
| |
|
| |
there are no contributions by this user yet.
|
| |
|
| |
| contributions in the editing queue |
|
|
|
| |
|
| |
there are no contributions by this user in the editing queue.
|
| |
|
| |
| last contributions voted |
|
|
|
| |
|
| |
articles · Collating online collections. Study of 13 cultural heritage collections online
by Francis Deblauwe · voted on 5/5/2008 19:52 · 23 votes · no comments
More and more museums and other cultural heritage organizations are offering online access to their holdings. These initiatives are varied in scope, depth and target audience. They also take different approaches to copyright and open access, esp. regarding photos of art and artifacts in their care.
Sample
For this limited investigation, I selected a more or less random sample...
calendar· Virtual Africa Day in Second Life
by annaberthold · voted on 24/4/2008 20:20 · 11 votes · no comments
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.
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,...
|
| |
|
| |
| last contributions commented |
|
|
|
| |
|
| |
articles · Why do I need to CC?
by anas · commented on 18/3/2008 19:04 · 26 votes · 1 comment
This has typically been the ending question for any Creative Commons-related conversation in the Middle East that I have been involved in. While drawing on others' experiences and telling success stories from other parts of the world would seem a very appealing answer, there is always the “but here, it does not work like that” aspect of the argument. Well, today I think we have...
articles · A Sick State - Access to Medicine in South Africa
by Rebecca Kahn, iCommons reporter · commented on 11/2/2008 02:12 · 33 votes · 4 comments
The story of access to medicine for South Africa, and anti-retroviral treatment in particular, has played itself out on two stages. On the one is the battle against big pharma for the rights to manufacture affordable anti-retroviral drugs. In this arena, South Africa along with Brazil and India have sent a clear message to the pharmaceutical companies, and are doing all they can...
|
| |
|
|
|
