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    Creative Commons is turning 10 – Celebrate!

    Posted on December 7, 2012 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn by Balthas

    Creative Commons is turning 10 this year. The chapters of CC will be hosting parties around the world and sharing party favors online for a ten-day delebration, December 7 to 16. Spread the word at 10.creativecommons.org.

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn Tagged CC, commons, creative commons, intellectual property, knowledge commons, openness Leave a comment

    Africa’s First 3.0 Licenses! – Creative Commons

    Posted on December 3, 2012 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn by Balthas

    Cool news from the friends from Creative Commons and from the CC Uganda team, which I am happy to relate here (of course duly under the required Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License ): Aurelia J. Schultz from CC reports on November 30th, 2012: “We are pleased to announce the launch of the Creative Commons 3.0 […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn Tagged Africa, CC, CC Uganda, creative commons, intellectual property, licence, NABOTU, Open Licensing, openness, porting, Uganda Leave a comment

    ict@innovation featured in UNCTAD’s new Information Economy Report – Africa Launch with FOSSFA

    Posted on November 29, 2012 in Freedom to innovate, News on publications, Open Source & Africa, Open Source IT business by Balthas

    Great news: Yesterday, UNCTAD launched its latest Information Economy Report. Free and Open Source Software is discussed extensively in this years’ edition, which has a focus on “The Software Industry and Developing Countries”. Also great news: the FOSSFA/GIZ capacity building programme ict@innovation is featured prominently, both in the report and at its Africa launch, which […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, News on publications, Open Source & Africa, Open Source IT business Tagged Africa, developing countries, FOSS, FOSSFA, Free and Open Source Software, Free Software, GIZ, ict@innovation, information economy report, IT industry, Open source software, UNCTAD Leave a comment

    „Amorphous action communities for commons-based peer production“ – some thoughts on networking in the future

    Posted on November 1, 2012 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn by Balthas

    Yesterday, I tried to put the future of „global networking for international cooperation“ in one slide –  looking five to ten years ahead. My first problem was to find a name for the future. I ended up with „Amorphous action communities for open innovation and [commons-based] peer production (globally connected, innovating locally)“. Then, I outlined […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn Tagged collective action, commons-based peer production, communities, knowledge sharing, learning, maker, maker-culture, meritocracy, open innovation, open network, open source, peer-to-peer, self-governance, trust, wiki-culture, wikinomics Leave a comment

    ‘GIZ global connect’ publishes compilation on ‘Global Knowledge Sharing’ through ICTs & quotes me

    Posted on September 14, 2012 in Freedom to innovate, News on publications by Balthas

    GIZ online journal Global Connect just published an article on Global Knowledge Sharing, which quotes me quite a bit. So I reproduce here some lines, the entire piece is online here. “… The example of Wikipedia gives us a taste of how we will likely generate our knowledge in the future: Radically different from the […]

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    Tackling global problems by pooling knowledge – highlights of the first international conference on the knowledge commons

    Posted on September 14, 2012 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn by Balthas

    What do the problems of climate change, global access to affordable medicine and software, food security, and crop availability for poor farmers have in common? In all of these fields, more and more people are looking at how a collective building and owning of key knowledge can help solve protracted global problems. A global core […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn Tagged biodiversity, Climate change, cloud, collaborative technology, common good, common pool resource management, commons, commons-based peer production, community, creative commons, design, digital commons, FOSS, healthcare, information commons, innovation, innovation commons, knowledge commons, open innovation, open source, openness, pandemics, self-governance, social capital, traditional knowlegdge Leave a comment

    Why open innovation helps to scale up development impact – Great new article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review

    Posted on September 6, 2012 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn by Balthas

    The Stanford Social Innovation Review just published an article on “Open Innovation: A Muse for Scaling” – Good chances, that this paper will become my personal “favorite article of 2012”. Why? Well, the paper manages to explain in just two pages and in plain words, why open innovation has the potential to drastically increase the […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn Tagged co-creation, commons, communities, community, development, ecosystem, entrepreneurship, gifting, impact, innovation commons, international cooperation, knowledge commons, open innovation, open innovation systems, openness, participation, scale Leave a comment

    Owning your social online network – the technology is getting there – are we as well?

    Posted on September 4, 2012 in Freedom to innovate by Balthas

    The makers of the open source social media platform “diaspora” have just launched another tool to get “ownership” back to the users of social media. See below for more info on makr.io . I get the feeling, that the technology is getting there  (give them some more months). However, I am not so sure that […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate Tagged makr.io, online social network, ownership, social network Leave a comment

    The future of economies and business – what’s in it for partner countries and networking among partners & alumni?

    Posted on August 22, 2012 in Freedom to innovate by Balthas

      Today, I am reporting to you from a GIZ topical conference, where we discussed „the future of economies and business“. We had here lot’s of experts and numerous programmes on sustainable private sector development and economic policy of GIZ from over 30 countries. Here’s my personal summary of the event for you in four […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate Tagged business, business model, commons, economy, future, GIZ, green business models, green innovation, inclusive business, knowledge sharing, Ostrom Leave a comment

    Interview on Ethiopian blogging: “Blogging puts Ethiopian life on the Internet – and opens rooms for debates”

    Posted on May 5, 2012 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, Open Source & Africa, Open Source IT business by Balthas

    [Please note: This blog post is a preview of the interview to be published soon on the Alumniportal Deutschland (APD) – subject to further editing]. Last week saw ‘re:publica 2012’ in Berlin, Germany’s largerst conference on blogging, social online networking and internet community. This years edition went global and put Africa on the map of […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, Open Source & Africa, Open Source IT business Tagged Africa, Alumni, Alumniportal Germany, blogging, Ethiopia, GIZ, Heinrich Böll, ice-ethiopia, iceaddis, ict@innovation, internet, knowledge, Linux, Markos Lemma, social media, training Leave a comment

    Made in my backyard – by and for the world. third day of re:publica is starting

    Posted on May 4, 2012 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, Open Source & Asia by Balthas

      Bas van Abel, head of the design lab at waag society, Netherlands had a great session where he spoke about empowering people and fixing our economy by moving to open peer-to-peer production communities. He gave examples of concrete work with miners in Congo, and prosthesis-makers in Indonesia. Bas starts with a quote from Oscar […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, Open Source & Asia Tagged co-creation, commons-based peer production, fablab, Indonesia, innovation commons, knowledge, maker, open design, open innovation, openness, peer production, peer-to-peer, peer-to-peer learning, production, Prostethis, prosthesis Leave a comment

    The non-experts are the real experts – open innovation talk at re:publica

    Posted on May 2, 2012 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn by Balthas

    So re:publica 2012 has started today. Not only with a call for freedom by Harvards Eben Moglen, but also with an interesting talk on ‘open innovation and the contribution of non-experts’ by Beth Kolko. Here’s my summary of it: For Beth, non-experts have the skills to innovate, but lack the recognition and credentials by institutions. […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn Tagged Beth Kolko, builders, DIY, DIY-activists, Eben Moglen, freedom, functional engineers, Hackademia, hackers, innovation commons, knowled, learning, open innovation, openness, re:publica, re:publica 2012 Leave a comment

    India, the (knowledge) commons and a plan for the future of democracy

    Posted on April 25, 2012 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, Open Source & Asia by Balthas

    It is rare these days to see high-level government thinkers talk about the commons. Here is one: Arun Maira of Indias Planning Commission makes the point that commons-based models are important tools to plan for the future of democracy worldwide. Here is the summary: “The world is full of complex problems, but humanity’s main organizational […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, Open Source & Asia Tagged Arun Maira, commons, commons-based peer production, communities, community, democracy, global governance, global problems, India, India Plannning Commission, information commons, innovation commons, knowledge commons, lateralization, learning, leave it to markets, listening, localization, Ostrom, planning commission, self-governance, strong government, Woody Allen Leave a comment

    World Bank announces … Open Access Policy (ok, and a new president as well :-)

    Posted on April 17, 2012 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, Open Source IT business by Balthas

    In the coming days, everyone will talk about the new president of the world bank. I think that the recently announced move of the world bank to an “Open Access Policy for Research and Knowledge” and its launch of an “Open Knowledge Repository” will be more significant over time. According to a press release, the […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, Open Source IT business Tagged commons, creative commons, knowledge, knowledge sharing, OER, open access, Open Knowledge Repository, research, WB, World Bank Leave a comment

    Homegrown advancements drive Africa’s tech revolution: TV show on Africa’s (open) innovation drive

    Posted on March 23, 2012 in Freedom to innovate, Open Source & Africa by Balthas

    Just found an interesting TV show on “African Innovation” aired by Al Jazeera three days ago.  They make several points e.g: ” Across Africa, developers and programmers are coming up with new technologies from mobile banking to mapping software and medical tablets to cloud storage. Now the continent is increasingly relying on its own homegrown […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Open Source & Africa Tagged Africa, Eric Osiakwan, informal, Juliana Rotich, open innovation, open source, Open Spaces, university Leave a comment
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    1. pdai on Peer-producing knowledge: a game-changer for development cooperation? – Question 5 of 10 on ‚learning by sharing’31/10/2021

      Building that collaboration may be difficult for some people. so the project that will be built will be constrained at…

    2. Balthas on About24/09/2019

      Dear Wahdan, here ist the source of the Quote from the letter of Jefferson: http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_8s12.html

    3. Balthas on Emerging Schools of Thought on Commons-Based Peer Production – New Article Out24/09/2019

      Dear Winda, of course you can thare the guides - all is under open licenses. See below. Just Name the…

    4. Wahdan Arum Inawati on About12/08/2019

      how quotation of the parts of the letter of Jefferson on knowledge and property?

    5. WINDA EKA SAMODRA on Emerging Schools of Thought on Commons-Based Peer Production – New Article Out04/08/2019

      Thank you for this nice guide.This really helped me, keep posting! can i share it?

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