Archivo de febrero 2007
28/02/07: Ciencia en palabras e imágenes
En BBC Mundo queremos inaugurar un nuevo espacio, invitando a los lectores a compartir historias en textos e imágenes.
Queremos recibir experiencias que muestren el rostro cotidiano de la ciencia. ¿Colabora usted con la preservación de especies o ambientes naturales? ¿Está involucrado en iniciativas para ampliar el acceso a internet? ¿Aplica una tecnología innovadora? ¿Convive a diario con una enfermedad?
Queremos recibir experiencias que muestren el rostro cotidiano de la ciencia. ¿Colabora usted con la preservación de especies o ambientes naturales? ¿Está involucrado en iniciativas para ampliar el acceso a internet? ¿Aplica una tecnología innovadora? ¿Convive a diario con una enfermedad?
27/02/07: Nueva Universidad Virtual Iberoamericana
La Universidad Virtual Iberoamericana (UVI) es el nuevo campus virtual compartido por siete universidades de cinco países Latinoamericanos, la que pretende ofrecer de manera conjunta estudios de licenciatura y posgrado enfocado a llevar educación superior de bajo costo a las sociedades de países de habla hispana, mediante el uso de las tecnologías de la información.
Algunos de los objetivos de la UVI son la construcción de un espacio iberoamericano de enseñanza superior de referencia mundial, el fomento de la cooperación entre las universidades, empresas, profesionales y personas privadas mediante una "Comunidad Abierta", el desarrollo del conocimiento libre en base a una plataforma virtual sobre software libre, la integración de grupos de investigación y el intercambio del conocimiento mediante revistas y acceso a fondos documentales.
Las casas de estudios miembros del proyectos, que provienen de Chile, España, Brasil, Argentina y México se reunieron en la Universidad de Guadalajara, México, del 21 al 23 de febrero para establecer las bases de la UVI, la que pretende ponerse en marcha durante el segundo semestre de 2007. Durante el encuentro las instituciones educativas debatieron sobre los programas de estudios que van a ofrecer, la gestión académica y administrativa, su estructura orgánica, normatividad e infraestructura.
Antes de que finalice el 2007, la UVI estaría en posibilidad de ofrecer un campus compartido con materias optativas y de libre elección para los alumnos de todas las universidades miembro, un doctorado sobre comunicación visual y en un master en desarrollo local sostenible, además de un "Aula abierta", cuyos contenidos serán de acceso gratuito para la sociedad.
En la primera fase de la UVI están incluidas las universidades USACH (de Santiago de Chile); la Universidad Nacional de Córdova, la Universidad Entre Ríos y Nacional de la Plata, de Argentina; la Universidad Santa María de Brasil; y la Universidad de la Extremadura de España, que lidera las actividades.
En las fases posteriores podrían unirse las universidades que conforman el Grupo de Montevideo y el G-9 español, sin cerrar el espacio a otras universidades europeas con interés en Ibero América. Al final podrían estar integrados alrededor de dos millones de estudiantes.
(RedCLARA)
Algunos de los objetivos de la UVI son la construcción de un espacio iberoamericano de enseñanza superior de referencia mundial, el fomento de la cooperación entre las universidades, empresas, profesionales y personas privadas mediante una "Comunidad Abierta", el desarrollo del conocimiento libre en base a una plataforma virtual sobre software libre, la integración de grupos de investigación y el intercambio del conocimiento mediante revistas y acceso a fondos documentales.
Las casas de estudios miembros del proyectos, que provienen de Chile, España, Brasil, Argentina y México se reunieron en la Universidad de Guadalajara, México, del 21 al 23 de febrero para establecer las bases de la UVI, la que pretende ponerse en marcha durante el segundo semestre de 2007. Durante el encuentro las instituciones educativas debatieron sobre los programas de estudios que van a ofrecer, la gestión académica y administrativa, su estructura orgánica, normatividad e infraestructura.
Antes de que finalice el 2007, la UVI estaría en posibilidad de ofrecer un campus compartido con materias optativas y de libre elección para los alumnos de todas las universidades miembro, un doctorado sobre comunicación visual y en un master en desarrollo local sostenible, además de un "Aula abierta", cuyos contenidos serán de acceso gratuito para la sociedad.
En la primera fase de la UVI están incluidas las universidades USACH (de Santiago de Chile); la Universidad Nacional de Córdova, la Universidad Entre Ríos y Nacional de la Plata, de Argentina; la Universidad Santa María de Brasil; y la Universidad de la Extremadura de España, que lidera las actividades.
En las fases posteriores podrían unirse las universidades que conforman el Grupo de Montevideo y el G-9 español, sin cerrar el espacio a otras universidades europeas con interés en Ibero América. Al final podrían estar integrados alrededor de dos millones de estudiantes.
(RedCLARA)
This short handbook provides guidance for policymakers struggling with two key issues: - What is the impact on student achievement of introducing ICTs in educational settings in developing countries? - How should this impact be measured, and what are the related issues, especially as they relate to Education For All and other Millennium Development Goals?
Information and communication technologies (ICT) are widely believed to be important potential levers to introduce and sustain education reform efforts. Despite evidence of increasingly widespread use of ICTs in education initiatives around the world, however, there is little guidance available for policy makers and donor staff specifically targeted at countries contemplating the use of ICTs to help countries meet the education-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Information and communication technologies (ICT) are widely believed to be important potential levers to introduce and sustain education reform efforts. Despite evidence of increasingly widespread use of ICTs in education initiatives around the world, however, there is little guidance available for policy makers and donor staff specifically targeted at countries contemplating the use of ICTs to help countries meet the education-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
22/02/07: Open Business Argentina
The project "Negocios Abiertos" is conducted by the team which started Creative Commons in Argentina.
“Negocios Abiertos es una plataforma que invita a compartir ideas, iniciativas y formas abiertas de hacer negocios bajo la lógica de la producción colaborativa del valor. Se orienta a desarrollar los conocimientos y herramientas necesarias para fomentar la creación, la innovación y la realización del espíritu emprendedor. … Negocios Abiertos incuba nuevas iniciativas efectivas, rentables y más responsables al momento de hacer negocios en toda América Latina. Técnicamente, participa del análisis, experimentación y desarrollo de ‘modelos de negocios abiertos’ para diferentes industrias a nivel global.”
“Negocios Abiertos es una plataforma que invita a compartir ideas, iniciativas y formas abiertas de hacer negocios bajo la lógica de la producción colaborativa del valor. Se orienta a desarrollar los conocimientos y herramientas necesarias para fomentar la creación, la innovación y la realización del espíritu emprendedor. … Negocios Abiertos incuba nuevas iniciativas efectivas, rentables y más responsables al momento de hacer negocios en toda América Latina. Técnicamente, participa del análisis, experimentación y desarrollo de ‘modelos de negocios abiertos’ para diferentes industrias a nivel global.”
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Despite macroeconomic numbers that point to an improved economy in Peru, the copyright industries continue to have difficulties in commercializing their products due to piracy. These industries report that 2006 was a difficult year to obtain effective criminal and administrative copyright enforcement in Peru. Optical disc piracy is on the rise and street piracy remains uncontained. More police actions and administrative investigations are needed, prosecutors must pursue piracy cases, and judges should impose the deterrent-level sentences afforded in the criminal code. The government has yet to enforce its software legalization program within government agencies and illegal photocopying on university campuses continues. Border control remains weak. IIPA supports the Free Trade Agreement process and urges U.S. Congressional ratification of the U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement.
Despite macroeconomic numbers that point to an improved economy in Peru, the copyright industries continue to have difficulties in commercializing their products due to piracy. These industries report that 2006 was a difficult year to obtain effective criminal and administrative copyright enforcement in Peru. Optical disc piracy is on the rise and street piracy remains uncontained. More police actions and administrative investigations are needed, prosecutors must pursue piracy cases, and judges should impose the deterrent-level sentences afforded in the criminal code. The government has yet to enforce its software legalization program within government agencies and illegal photocopying on university campuses continues. Border control remains weak. IIPA supports the Free Trade Agreement process and urges U.S. Congressional ratification of the U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement.
We have powerful reasons to think that the Latin American workers are joined by something more than a simple geographical link.
Beyond the artificial limits that delineate the borders, the busy hands of the workers extract the oil, cut the aloe, cultivate the fruits of the land, extract the minerals and process the raw materials that later magically appear in the supermarkets.
But, though the abundance flows in the American lands like cornucopia, this generosity does not make it to the plate of the basic producers of the wealth, that is to say, to the workers.
We ask: why does not the fairy of prosperity touch with her magic rod the barren economies of the workers, where are those elves that turn straw into gold, hidden into the basements of the palaces?
This Contest has been created as a space of convergence of images that celebrate, repudiate or simply show the world that the anonymous producers of wealth enjoy and suffer. We invite creators of images to this space, so that they document the life and work of Latin-American workers.
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Tenemos razones poderosas para pensar que a los trabajadores latinoamericanos los une algo más que un simple vínculo de vecindad.
Más allá de los límites artificiales que trazan las fronteras, las manos acuciosas de los trabajadores extraen el petróleo, cortan el maguey, cultivan los frutos de la tierra, extraen los minerales y procesan las materias primas que luego veremos mágicamente expuestos en los supermercados.
Pero, aunque la abundancia fluye de las tierras americanas como de una cornucopia, esta generosidad no alcanza a llegar al plato de los productores básicos de la riqueza, es decir, a los trabajadores. Preguntamos: ¿Por qué el hada de la prosperidad no toca con su varita mágica las magras economías de los trabajadores, de esos duendecillos que convierten la paja en oro escondidos en los sótanos de los palacios?
Este Concurso ha sido creado como un espacio de convergencia de las imágenes que celebran, deploran o simplemente muestran, el mundo que gozan y sufren los anónimos productores de la riqueza. A través de él invitamos a los hacedores de imagen para que documenten la vida y obra de los trabajadores latinoamericanos.
Beyond the artificial limits that delineate the borders, the busy hands of the workers extract the oil, cut the aloe, cultivate the fruits of the land, extract the minerals and process the raw materials that later magically appear in the supermarkets.
But, though the abundance flows in the American lands like cornucopia, this generosity does not make it to the plate of the basic producers of the wealth, that is to say, to the workers.
We ask: why does not the fairy of prosperity touch with her magic rod the barren economies of the workers, where are those elves that turn straw into gold, hidden into the basements of the palaces?
This Contest has been created as a space of convergence of images that celebrate, repudiate or simply show the world that the anonymous producers of wealth enjoy and suffer. We invite creators of images to this space, so that they document the life and work of Latin-American workers.
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Tenemos razones poderosas para pensar que a los trabajadores latinoamericanos los une algo más que un simple vínculo de vecindad.
Más allá de los límites artificiales que trazan las fronteras, las manos acuciosas de los trabajadores extraen el petróleo, cortan el maguey, cultivan los frutos de la tierra, extraen los minerales y procesan las materias primas que luego veremos mágicamente expuestos en los supermercados.
Pero, aunque la abundancia fluye de las tierras americanas como de una cornucopia, esta generosidad no alcanza a llegar al plato de los productores básicos de la riqueza, es decir, a los trabajadores. Preguntamos: ¿Por qué el hada de la prosperidad no toca con su varita mágica las magras economías de los trabajadores, de esos duendecillos que convierten la paja en oro escondidos en los sótanos de los palacios?
Este Concurso ha sido creado como un espacio de convergencia de las imágenes que celebran, deploran o simplemente muestran, el mundo que gozan y sufren los anónimos productores de la riqueza. A través de él invitamos a los hacedores de imagen para que documenten la vida y obra de los trabajadores latinoamericanos.
18/02/07: Flyers and Posters
Our flyers (A6) and posters (A3)
15/02/07: Google Summer of Code 2007
Google Summer of Code 2007 is on! We will begin accepting applications in March, so until then take a look at the FAQs and the advice for would-be students and mentors on the program wiki.
15/02/07: Peruvian Inventors
Since some time ago, our country has dedicated itself to consume and not produce technologies. Our innovators and inventors, the most valuable resource that our country can have, have been discouraged by the lack of promotion and support, and the precarious economic conditions that they face.
We are organizing networking events and technical courses with the purpose of discovering, identifying and fomenting the innovating capacities of innovators and inventors to fight poverty and contribute to local economic development.
Here some tv reports about the last National Invention Contest.
We are organizing networking events and technical courses with the purpose of discovering, identifying and fomenting the innovating capacities of innovators and inventors to fight poverty and contribute to local economic development.
Here some tv reports about the last National Invention Contest.
13/02/07: Save Ubuntu PowerPC!
The Ubuntu Technical Board has decided to reclassify PowerPC as an unofficial architecture, rather than a fully supported architecture, for Ubuntu 7.04 and subsequent releases. This means that packages and ISO images will continue to be produced, but releases will not be delayed due to problems which are specific to PowerPC, and the quality of the PowerPC release itself will depend very much on the extent to which members of the Ubuntu community drive PowerPC testing and bug fixes.
A team of PowerPC users and developers has been formed at https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-powerpc and will be the focus of efforts to keep Ubuntu's PowerPC support at high quality. We welcome wider participation in that team, and if developers devote some additional time to the work then there is no reason that Ubuntu on PowerPC should not continue to deliver high quality releases.
Sing petition to keep PPC !!!
A team of PowerPC users and developers has been formed at https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-powerpc and will be the focus of efforts to keep Ubuntu's PowerPC support at high quality. We welcome wider participation in that team, and if developers devote some additional time to the work then there is no reason that Ubuntu on PowerPC should not continue to deliver high quality releases.
Sing petition to keep PPC !!!
For Immediate Release
February 13, 2007
Contact: Heather Ford, iCommons Executive
Director in Johannesburg, South Africa
+27 11 327 3155
heather@icommons.org
Joining the dots: Introducing the iCommons iCurriculum
Johannesburg, South Africa – iCommons, an organization created to help coordinate and support global efforts to share educational content on the Internet, is launching an online project to try to learn what makes such efforts succeed.
The new project, called iCommons iCurriculum, is intended to support a growing movement to share educational content on the Internet. Open education goes beyond posting textbooks online to offer tools that lets educators and learners share, reorganize and republish educational materials to suit their needs.
iCommons iCurriculum will work with iCommons partner, the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education, to develop and coordinate a research framework with which to assess what makes an open educational resources project successful in developing low-cost, sustainable and effective resources. The framework will consider questions about how localized the material is, what incentives there are for contributors, what kind of review systems are in place and whether the project is sustainable or not.
“Partly because the field is so new, there have been few opportunities to share program learnings and advances across projects,” said Dr. Lisa Petrides of ISKME. “As a result, there is a large potential for knowledge-sharing among developers, supporters, and users in order to advance and improve the development, use and re-use of open education content.”
Once the research framework is in place, the project will use an online questionnaire to invite open educational resources communities around the world to analyze their own efforts. By creating this common tool with which to study these efforts, the iCommons iCurriculum project hopes to build a comprehensive body of data on their successes, and to help create the capacity to track, analyze and, share key developments in the creation, use and re-use of open education content.
The project is supported by four of the most prominent donors to open educational resources: Curriki – the Global Education and Learning Community, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the telecentre.org program at Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), and the Shuttleworth Foundation (TSF).
“We believe that we need to have well-designed research that can be used to support the success and growth of open source curricula,” said Dr. Bobbi Kurshan, Executive Director of Curriki. The iCommons iCurriculum will be a space where open education communities can learn from the successes of their peers in the hopes of making the finest educational resources available for free to all students, regardless of whether they are studying at a university in Johannesburg, at home in New York, or at a community telecentre in Delhi.
What iCurriculum learns through the research also can be used by the donors in their support of future educational resource sites. “iCommons iCurriculum is the perfect place to practically explore grass roots applications of new and emergent processes that can be applied at many levels,” said Helen King, Executive Director of the Shuttleworth Foundation.
This kind of collaboration amongst donors is rare. According to Mark Surman, Director of telecentre.org, “We thought it would be useful to get people working on open curricula together to share experiences on what's working and what's not in terms of methods for these kinds of collaborative projects. We believe that collaboration goes a long way. So, if the telecentre networks developing open curriculum can learn from others who are also trying this kind of thing, it's likely they will do a better job in the end."
Dr. Catherine Casserly from the Hewlett Foundation said that they are involved for similar reasons.“We hope that bringing these efforts together will create synergy to accelerate the impact of open educational resources on teaching and learning throughout the globe,” Dr. Casserly said. “That’s what the foundation’s grant-making and broader efforts to build the field are all about.”
There are great hopes for iCommons iCurriculum in the future. Once the framework has been developed and lessons learned from this study, iCommons iCurriculum will go on to report on lessons learned by the open education community, and will continue to bring together open educational champions to find further areas for collaboration at the annual iCommons Summit.
“Over the long term, it would be great if we could see a whole ‘curriculum commons’ movement emerging,’’ Surman said. “This would be people who are committed to innovating the way curriculum is created, bringing in peer production and even bringing in the students. I think iCommons could make a real difference in the world if it could help to convene this sort of community."
About Curriki - the Global Education & Learning Community - www.curriki.org
Curriki - the Global Education & Learning Community is a nonprofit dedicated to improving education by empowering teachers, students and parents with universal access to free and Open Source Curricula. Curriki is building the first and only Internet site for a complete course of instruction and assessment for K-12. The organization will create a world-class educational environment that is community developed and supported. Founded by Sun Microsystems in 2004, Curriki now operates as an independent nonprofit.
About iCommons – www.icommons.org
Incubated by Creative Commons, iCommons is an organisation with a broad vision to develop a united global commons front by collaborating with open education, access to knowledge, free software, open access publishing and free culture communities around the world.
About ISKME - www.iskme.org
ISKME is an independent, nonprofit educational think tank whose mission is to understand and improve how schools, colleges, and universities, and the organizations and agencies that support them, build their capacity to systematically collect and share information, apply it to well-defined problems, and create knowledge-driven environments focused on learning and success — whether through the use of assessment data to improve classroom instruction; the use of professional development to catalyze change; the use of evaluative findings to improve programs and policy; the use of research to engage practice; or the use of open education content to advance learning opportunities for all learners.
About the Shuttleworth Foundation – www.tsf.org.za
The Shuttleworth Foundation, founded by Mark Shuttleworth in 2000, is passionate about social development. The organisation drives social innovation by ensuring policy alignment with the core values of openness and accessibility in the fields of education and technology. The action based research portfolio combines best practice globally and makes it relevant to the South African context. Current foci are: school leadership and management, the promotion of communication and analytical skills; wireless & telecommunications regulation; collaborative content creation; intellectual property rights.
About the telecentre.org program at Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) – www.telecentre.org
telecentre.org is a collaborative initiative connecting telecentres, networks, innovators, social investors and others who believe that information and communications technology, used locally, strengthens individuals and the communities where they live. Hosted by Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), telecentre.org invests in actions that bolster the global telecentre movement to benefit small telecentres directly. It makes these investments in existing and emerging telecentre networks that provide services and learning opportunities to people working on the ground in local telecentres. telecentre.org’s founding social investors include IDRC, Microsoft and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).
About the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation – www.hewlett.org
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has been making grants since 1967 to help solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. The Foundation concentrates its resources on activities in education, the environment, global development, performing arts, philanthropy and population, and makes grants to support disadvantaged communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. A full list of all the Hewlett Foundation’s grants can be found at www.hewlett.org.
February 13, 2007
Contact: Heather Ford, iCommons Executive
Director in Johannesburg, South Africa
+27 11 327 3155
heather@icommons.org
Joining the dots: Introducing the iCommons iCurriculum
Johannesburg, South Africa – iCommons, an organization created to help coordinate and support global efforts to share educational content on the Internet, is launching an online project to try to learn what makes such efforts succeed.
The new project, called iCommons iCurriculum, is intended to support a growing movement to share educational content on the Internet. Open education goes beyond posting textbooks online to offer tools that lets educators and learners share, reorganize and republish educational materials to suit their needs.
iCommons iCurriculum will work with iCommons partner, the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education, to develop and coordinate a research framework with which to assess what makes an open educational resources project successful in developing low-cost, sustainable and effective resources. The framework will consider questions about how localized the material is, what incentives there are for contributors, what kind of review systems are in place and whether the project is sustainable or not.
“Partly because the field is so new, there have been few opportunities to share program learnings and advances across projects,” said Dr. Lisa Petrides of ISKME. “As a result, there is a large potential for knowledge-sharing among developers, supporters, and users in order to advance and improve the development, use and re-use of open education content.”
Once the research framework is in place, the project will use an online questionnaire to invite open educational resources communities around the world to analyze their own efforts. By creating this common tool with which to study these efforts, the iCommons iCurriculum project hopes to build a comprehensive body of data on their successes, and to help create the capacity to track, analyze and, share key developments in the creation, use and re-use of open education content.
The project is supported by four of the most prominent donors to open educational resources: Curriki – the Global Education and Learning Community, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the telecentre.org program at Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), and the Shuttleworth Foundation (TSF).
“We believe that we need to have well-designed research that can be used to support the success and growth of open source curricula,” said Dr. Bobbi Kurshan, Executive Director of Curriki. The iCommons iCurriculum will be a space where open education communities can learn from the successes of their peers in the hopes of making the finest educational resources available for free to all students, regardless of whether they are studying at a university in Johannesburg, at home in New York, or at a community telecentre in Delhi.
What iCurriculum learns through the research also can be used by the donors in their support of future educational resource sites. “iCommons iCurriculum is the perfect place to practically explore grass roots applications of new and emergent processes that can be applied at many levels,” said Helen King, Executive Director of the Shuttleworth Foundation.
This kind of collaboration amongst donors is rare. According to Mark Surman, Director of telecentre.org, “We thought it would be useful to get people working on open curricula together to share experiences on what's working and what's not in terms of methods for these kinds of collaborative projects. We believe that collaboration goes a long way. So, if the telecentre networks developing open curriculum can learn from others who are also trying this kind of thing, it's likely they will do a better job in the end."
Dr. Catherine Casserly from the Hewlett Foundation said that they are involved for similar reasons.“We hope that bringing these efforts together will create synergy to accelerate the impact of open educational resources on teaching and learning throughout the globe,” Dr. Casserly said. “That’s what the foundation’s grant-making and broader efforts to build the field are all about.”
There are great hopes for iCommons iCurriculum in the future. Once the framework has been developed and lessons learned from this study, iCommons iCurriculum will go on to report on lessons learned by the open education community, and will continue to bring together open educational champions to find further areas for collaboration at the annual iCommons Summit.
“Over the long term, it would be great if we could see a whole ‘curriculum commons’ movement emerging,’’ Surman said. “This would be people who are committed to innovating the way curriculum is created, bringing in peer production and even bringing in the students. I think iCommons could make a real difference in the world if it could help to convene this sort of community."
About Curriki - the Global Education & Learning Community - www.curriki.org
Curriki - the Global Education & Learning Community is a nonprofit dedicated to improving education by empowering teachers, students and parents with universal access to free and Open Source Curricula. Curriki is building the first and only Internet site for a complete course of instruction and assessment for K-12. The organization will create a world-class educational environment that is community developed and supported. Founded by Sun Microsystems in 2004, Curriki now operates as an independent nonprofit.
About iCommons – www.icommons.org
Incubated by Creative Commons, iCommons is an organisation with a broad vision to develop a united global commons front by collaborating with open education, access to knowledge, free software, open access publishing and free culture communities around the world.
About ISKME - www.iskme.org
ISKME is an independent, nonprofit educational think tank whose mission is to understand and improve how schools, colleges, and universities, and the organizations and agencies that support them, build their capacity to systematically collect and share information, apply it to well-defined problems, and create knowledge-driven environments focused on learning and success — whether through the use of assessment data to improve classroom instruction; the use of professional development to catalyze change; the use of evaluative findings to improve programs and policy; the use of research to engage practice; or the use of open education content to advance learning opportunities for all learners.
About the Shuttleworth Foundation – www.tsf.org.za
The Shuttleworth Foundation, founded by Mark Shuttleworth in 2000, is passionate about social development. The organisation drives social innovation by ensuring policy alignment with the core values of openness and accessibility in the fields of education and technology. The action based research portfolio combines best practice globally and makes it relevant to the South African context. Current foci are: school leadership and management, the promotion of communication and analytical skills; wireless & telecommunications regulation; collaborative content creation; intellectual property rights.
About the telecentre.org program at Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) – www.telecentre.org
telecentre.org is a collaborative initiative connecting telecentres, networks, innovators, social investors and others who believe that information and communications technology, used locally, strengthens individuals and the communities where they live. Hosted by Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), telecentre.org invests in actions that bolster the global telecentre movement to benefit small telecentres directly. It makes these investments in existing and emerging telecentre networks that provide services and learning opportunities to people working on the ground in local telecentres. telecentre.org’s founding social investors include IDRC, Microsoft and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).
About the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation – www.hewlett.org
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has been making grants since 1967 to help solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. The Foundation concentrates its resources on activities in education, the environment, global development, performing arts, philanthropy and population, and makes grants to support disadvantaged communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. A full list of all the Hewlett Foundation’s grants can be found at www.hewlett.org.
04/02/07: IBM Server
The IBM Server power5 has been arrived !!!
Thanks, Software Freedom International and IBM !!!
Thanks, Software Freedom International and IBM !!!
