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A key change at iCommons
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Dear friends,
At the 2 August iCommons Board Meeting, the board decided to make some difficult but necessary changes at iCommons. It has become clear over the past months that our vision for iCommons is different from the... more
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Open Education Track: Overview
Paola · Lima (Peru) · no comments made
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Thanks to everybody to participate on the open education track. We know about open education in Australia, South Africa, US, Chile...
I am glad to know that Open Education movement start to become a universal movement. The next step, how to scale the movement?...We never forget our cultural diversity, I remember during a workshop more than 10 differents ways to say book in many languages, so our world is different and is for that is so rich.
Open source projects, co-developed by thousands of peoples, and shared through creative licensing rather than financial consideration from the licit community of users, have transformed the world. Examples of such projects include the famous Linux operating system, the Ashoka Changemakers initiative, the Creative Commons Licences and Wikipedia.
You make money not by selling open source, but by using open source. Rent extraction from the process of innovation is reduced, transactions costs are minimized and developers focus their resources on creating revenue by providing products and services and enlarging markets.
Today new actors, including farmers and small-to-medium enterprise, can use open source to create viable innovations relevant to their needs.
In the Open Education Track many open source projects are being presented: OER Commons, Free High School Science Textbooks, WikiEducator, One Laptop per Child and others.
Sessions:
- Towards an Open Future for Education. In this session participants in the open education track to gather together and explore vision and perspectives on our open education future, and to compare goals for our time together.
- Propagating the Meme: Sharing Practices to Scale Open Education. In this session we have explored practical ways to identify and spread processes and tactics that will help bring the open educational content movement to scale.
- Open Education Project Clinic. In thiis session we have explored ways to enable open education projects to scale up and solicit input from people working on peer production, sharing and open creativity and other domains.
- Collaborating on Open Education. Participants in this session have been invited to develop a vision for improved collaboration amongst people working on open educational materials, with discussion of how best to build on the work of others.
Another key topic is the local initiatives are related to global cooperation and if they are according to needs. Thanks again to Gunner from AspirationTech.org, to allow us to enjoy our sessions and to make many contacts. I expect enthusiastically the next year, I find that we can show many cases that it would begin here.
Cultura Libre has a open source project, in lay terms, we want to be an open platform to make it easy to reach the lowest-income markets using mobile as an input device and a sales channel for companies and organizations serving the bottom of the pyramid. Our inspiration is the notable story of Grameen Phone, a billion-dollar phone company in Bangladesh built to serve the communication needs of that country’s millions of low-income residents, and its synergy with Grameen Bank, the world’s first microfinance institution founded by Nobel Prize-winner Muhammad Yunus.
Bringing easy and affordable access to telecommunications services to rural families will them to better their businesses, increase access to education and health services, and provide a forum for interaction with government services. Services such as payment and credit systems using cell phones (or some other wireless device) will deliver basic, low cost microfinancial services to the masses particularly in rural regions. Others (VoIP telephony, e-business, P2P) will help enhance the overall local competitiveness and in turn stimulates economic growth.
tags: peru education summit07
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