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Mostly harmless.
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Skype - Simon.co.za
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articles · Siyavula to bring free and open resources to education
19/5/2008 17:22 · 31 votes · no comments
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.
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articles · The Hague Declaration calls for global commitment to open standards
16/5/2008 18:24 · 28 votes · no comments
The founders of the Digital Standards Organization recently convened in The Hague to develop a declaration that calls on governments to further the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with a commitment to the adoption of open standards.
The declaration calls for a consideration of "a society in which full and effective participation in government and society, and access to...
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articles · Siyavula to bring free and open resources to education
by Simon Dingle · voted on 28/5/2008 01:19 · 31 votes · no comments
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.
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articles · The Hague Declaration calls for global commitment to open standards
by Simon Dingle · voted on 16/5/2008 18:54 · 28 votes · no comments
The founders of the Digital Standards Organization recently convened in The Hague to develop a declaration that calls on governments to further the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with a commitment to the adoption of open standards.
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articles · Sharing on the Social Web
by Paul Jacobson · commented on 14/5/2008 22:06 · 29 votes · 3 comments
The Social Web (aka Web 2.0) is about three things: listening, conversing and sharing. Of the three, sharing is perhaps the most relevant in the context of the Commons in part because it is about sharing content, something that is almost taken for granted these days. Anyone who is active on the Social Web is familiar with a myriad content sharing sites ranging from Flickr (photo...
nodes · Heather and Jimmy's 50 great parties club
by JimboWales · commented on 9/8/2007 03:15 · 1 vote · 12 comments
Parties! Not just Wikipedia meetups, but parties with people from a variety of free culture projects. Gender balanced parties. Minimum of 20 people. Wikipedians, artists, programmers, etc.
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