Our team have submitted a project, Agri Mashup: Data Utilization in Inclusive and Sustainable Agriculture at the Base of the Pyramid, for the Netsquared Mashup Challenge. We are working with two peruvian organizations.



Too, please vote for "Text a Farmer, Support a Farmer, Alert a Farmer with CellAlert.net" brought to you by www.FreeAlert.org and www.CellAlert.net.

Check out ours applications and if you think these projects has a huge potential for social change, please vote for it before Friday!

http://www.netsquared.org/2008/conference/projects

Cultura Libre will launch a new initiative "Alternative SoC: Code to change the World"

Where: The 2007 iCommons Summit: Dubrovnik, Croatia.

When: 15-17 June

http://wiki.icommons.org/index.php/Launches

El Pack "Cultura Libre" incluye: CD - Libre 1.0, CD Ubuntu 6.06 (Version con soporte durante 5 años), CD Wired, Stickers Ubuntu y Stickers Creative Commons.



La version 1.0 del "CD Libre" contiene una seleccion de materiales publicados bajo licencias de Creative Commons Peru, adicionalmente contiene una seleccion de contenidos publicados bajo licencias Creative Commons de Paises Latinoamericanos.

CC Peru: Coro polifonico del colegio “La Inmaculada” de Chiclayo, el duo ALTER TEMPO, Pedro Novoa, entre otros.

Ademas incluye una seleccion de Software Libre: Scribus, Inkscape, FireFox, ThunderBird, ClamWin, 7-Zip, Songbird y otros.

El Pack "Cultura Libre" sera distribuido gratuitamente en los eventos que organizemos y en la celebracion del "Dia del Software Libre 2007" (15 de setiembre).



Los miembros de las comunidades FOSS pueden solicitar el pack por email y este sera enviado gratuitamente por correo postal a cualquier localidad de Lima y/o provincias.

Our flyers (A6) and posters (A3)

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.

The IBM Server power5 has been arrived !!!

Thanks, Software Freedom International and IBM !!!

Finalmente el "CD Libre" esta listo, la version 1.0 lleva por nombre "Pirata" y contiene una seleccion de materiales publicados bajo licencias de Creative Commons Peru, adicionalmente contiene una seleccion de contenidos publicados bajo licencias Creative Commons de Paises Latinoamericanos.

El "CD Libre" sera distribuido gratuitamente en los eventos que estamos organizando y en la celebracion del "Dia del Software Libre 2007" (15 de setiembre).

Ahora iniciamos una nueva convocatoria para la edicion de la version 2.0 del CD Libre, esten atentos que pronto publicaremos las bases asi como los premios para los autores de los contenidos seleccionados.

"Cultura Libre" is a small group, but highly effective organization. Our existing team is made up of people with backgrounds in science and
engineering, we are seeking MBA students to complement us.

They will help us examine various open business models and appropriate technologies for micro enterprices in Peru.

Be part of launching a social venture with the potential to create substantive social, economic benefits and solutions to eradicate poverty.

SKILLS NEEDED:
Marketing, Business and Entrepreneurial
Proposal Writing

CONTACT:
Luis Gustavo Lira
lira.lg at pucp.edu.pe

The Free Culture Network of Latin America & the Caribbean is an initiative of “Cultura Libre”, which is aiming to form a regional network of organizations and activists working towards integrating and strengthening The Free Culture Movement in the region. We aim to do the following:

* Minimizing the imbalance between the quantity of open content produced in English and that produced in Spanish, Portuguese and Native Languages. The initiative strengthens regional integration with the objective of producing and disseminating relevant open content on the region reality.

* Provide residential programs that enables successful initiatives to scale their endeavors and achieve sustainability. Living and learning together, activists develop common conceptual skills and the sense of community that is essential for peer-to-peer collaboration.

* Increasing access to opportunities for youth in the Knowledge Society.

* Build awareness around freedom of expression, open access, free culture, creative commons and cultural diversity.

The Network can help these organizations and activists to better analyze their local realities and determine their issues from a wider perspective and work to effect change at policy, organizational and practical level, promoting actions to address challenges.

The importance of this attitude of thinking locally and regionally from a block perspective, as per the world trend, it is a new way of approaching regional integration and development.

We are working on the development of a network of organizations and activists whose thoughts cover the larger area of common interest. The diversity of perspectives and cultural differences is a not problem, there is a regional identity and the network will be a positive progress in this direction.

The initiative is open to organizations and activists from the region that share the same objetives.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Cultura Libre is a small group, but highly effective organization. We have made huge strides in 2006. The Community Network pilot project in Lima (Peru) is near completion and will provide rural families with access to telecommunications services in their communities for the first time. The CD Libre (Compilation CD of content licensed under Creative Commons Peru) project is ready and will be released in January. We have made significant inroads at The Open Business Project, our first incubated business in Peru. We are incubating The Peruvian Pirate Party. All this on a very limited budget.

In 2006 we win the Software Freedom Day 2006 competition in the category: Best plan for FOSS deployment project on new server for community benefit. The Community Network project has been awarded by Motorola del Peru and Telefonica del Peru. The products developed by The Open Business Project have been awarded by Coca Cola del Peru and INDECOPI (The National Institute for the Defense of Competition and the Protection of Intellectual Property).