The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Open Knowledge: Production and Exchange of Local Content in Local Languages Open Knowledge means a set of methodologies and principles that are related to both the distribution and the production of different knowledge works. In this context it is important to mention that the production as well as the distribution of knowledge works occurs in …
Helsinki will host the first Open Knowledge Festival from September 17th to 22nd, 2012. The event, organized by The Open Knowledge Foundation (UK), The Finnish Institute in London and the Aalto Media Factory, will focus on the value that can be generated by opening up knowledge, the ecosystems of organisations that can benefit from such …
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“The School of Data is led by the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) and Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU). The School will provide online training for data ‘wrangling’ skills – the ability to find, retrieve, clean, manipulate, analyze, and represent different types of data.” The School of Data is a collaborative and community-orientated project, and we …
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Press Release WASHINGTON, April 10, 2012 – The World Bank today announced that it will implement a new Open Access policy for its research outputs and knowledge products, effective July 1, 2012. The new policy builds on recent efforts to increase access to information at the World Bank and to make its research as widely available …
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Elsevier Versus Wikipedia: Academics Revolt Against Giant Publisher by Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch Blog CorpWatch, May 11th, 2012 Over 11,000 academics have pledged to boycott Elsevier, the Dutch publishing giant, for profiting off their work and making it unavailable to the general public. Now Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, is about to turn the world of corporate …
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KBucket – Knowledge Buckets “KBucket as a platform is designed to be a search site for curated content. Each search term will give you tens of possible curated and researched pages on the topic of your interest. Our vision for KBucket is a Wikipedia type platform curated and clustered by humans . This video explains …
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How Children’s Toys Reflect What’s Next in Technology & Education, March 5, 2012, PRAGMATIC VISIONS | by Jim Brazell [Editor’s note: This is the first in a new column series from the pragmatic visionaries at the Thornburg Center for Professional Development for edtech digest] “The availability of technologies to youth is its own instructor.” –Nobelist …
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