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Report on Open Source – interesting points on collaboration and learning
The European Commission (DG Enterprise and Industry, I suppose) has made available a comprehensive report on the significance of free/libre and open source (FLOSS) applications for economic and innovation development. The report is titled “Economic impact of open source software … Continue reading
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UNDP-APDIP’s “e-Primers” open-sourced
People over at the UNDP’s Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme (UNDP-APDIP) have caught on to the brilliance of Wikis. They’ve released a bunch of their “e-Primers” under a GFDL license onto Wikibooks. What this means is that they are free to … Continue reading
$100 laptop having an impact on open source communities
This LinuxWorld article demonstrates several ways in which the MIT Media Lab’s $100 laptop project is affecting open source software development, “Doing it for the kids, man: Children’s laptop inspires open source projects – Network World” As Negroponte, the “granddaddy” … Continue reading
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United Nations University embraces opencourseware
The United Nations University (UNU), a network of specialised research and knowledge sharing programs, has announced that it has joined the OpenCourseWare Consortium (OCW Consortium). The OCW Consortium is an initiative which I believe was launched by MIT after they … Continue reading
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Outsourcing university research as development aid?
Newsweek-International Edition this week (Aug. 21-28, 2006) has several reports about higher education. The main piece is about newly published rankings of universities throughout the world. Among the factors used to determine the rankings are number of international faculty and … Continue reading
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The United Nations Millennium Declaration and the knowledge-based economy
Time for another installment related to my quest to unravel the deep hidden meanings of the Millennium Declaration (UNMD), the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), globalization, ICTs, etc.. If the UNMD is about globalization, which it largely is, the referenced document … Continue reading
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