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    New online courses on GNU/Linux skills by the Free Technology Academy

    Posted on March 2, 2012 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, Open Source IT business by Balthas

    Just got news about this years courses by the Free Technology Academy, which is a partner of http://www.ict-innovation.fossfa.net. See the following announcement: The Free Technology Academy expects to run two course modules for users and systems administrators who want to get started with GNU/Linux systems. Skills in this area are increasingly demanded and hard to […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, Open Source IT business Tagged e-learning, Free Technology Academy, FTA, GNU, GNU/Linux, ict@innovation, learning, Linux, Linux Courses, open learning, peer learning, peer-to-peer learning, peer-to-peer university Leave a comment

    IT Sector Promotion in developing and emerging countries – Manual & Toolbox released

    Posted on November 22, 2011 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, Open Source & Africa, Open Source IT business by Balthas

    Just released: an IT sector promotion manual and toolbox with many examples and tools pertaining to OpenIT@giz – Open Innovation for Development such as capacity building, open innovation methods, training-of-trainer networks in IT, Open Source etc. Check it out! BTW: It is drawing on the ict@innovation programme and other programmes described here). And for archival […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, Open Source & Africa, Open Source IT business Tagged BMZ, FOSS, German Development Cooperation, GIZ, ict4d, IT business, IT sector, IT sector promotion, knowledge, Linux, local IT sector, manual, open innovation, private sector, private sector promotion, SME Leave a comment

    ict@innovation programme moves to West Africa: Balthas Seibold opens training in Abuja, Nigeria

    Posted on October 24, 2011 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, Open Source & Africa, Open Source IT business by Balthas

    “Free your IT Business in WEST Africa!” This was the motto of the first Training-of-Trainers of ict@innovation held in the West African region. Balthas Seibold and his colleagues Petra Hagemann & George Nyambuya officially welcomed more than 26 FOSS experts from Nigeria, Togo, Ghana, Cameroon and Senegal, who engaged in 10 intense days of peer-discussions […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, Open Source & Africa, Open Source IT business Tagged Africa, Cameroon, FOSS, Ghana, IT business, Nigeria, open source, peer learning, Senegal, Togo, Training-of-Trainer Leave a comment

    Open Educational Resources and Open Licensing for Capacity Building

    Posted on June 5, 2011 in Freedom to learn, News on publications by Balthas

    In a recent presentation for GIZ e-learning staff, Balthas Seibold gave an introduction to “Open Approaches to educational provision”, stressing the potential of Open Educational Resources and Open Licensing for Capacity Building. The presentation gives an overview of the changing educational landscape, introduces Open Education and Open Educational Services in practice (openSE, openEd 2.0 (UNU-Merit), […]

    Posted in Freedom to learn, News on publications Tagged Capacity Building, OER, Open Educational Resources, Open Licensing Leave a comment

    The global digital divide is an innovation and learning divide!

    Posted on February 23, 2009 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, Open Source IT business by Balthas

    This article examines some of the ethical challenges and solutions related to the digital divide with a focus on how capacity building is crucial to bridge the different divides. The article is part of the volume “Internetökonomie und Ethik” (= The Economy of the Internet and Ethics) published by the renowed German editing house “Duncker […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, Open Source IT business Tagged access, access to knowledge, Capacity Building, digital divide, digital equality, Education, ethics, FOSS, intellectual property, internet, knowledge, knowledge commons, Open Educational Resources, public good Leave a comment

    Education for a free information society! Balthas Seibold on panel on “Free software & business models for IT companies”

    Posted on August 17, 2008 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, Open Source & Africa, Open Source IT business by Balthas

    How can sustainable business models in Free Software grow local IT companies in Africa and worldwide? This was one of the main topics of an international panel discussion at the international conference “Free Knowledge Free Technology – Education for a free information society ” held in Barcelona, Spain from July 15 to July 17 2008. […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, Open Source & Africa, Open Source IT business Tagged Africa, business model, Education, FOSS, Free technology, information society, IT business, open source, SELF Leave a comment

    Which kind of e-learning technology for development cooperation?

    Posted on February 14, 2007 in Freedom to learn by Balthas

    This question led the discussions at a roundtable of the International LEARNTEC Forum on 13 February 2007 organized by the “German network of e-learning providers D-ELAN” and Learntec, a leading German trade fair for educational and information technology. Balthas Seibold was on the panel with Arndt Bubenzer, common sense, Beate Dippmar, GTZ, Christina Neuhoff, time4you […]

    Posted in Freedom to learn Tagged e-learning, FOSS, open source Leave a comment

    Indonesian Minister supports training camp of BMZ/InWEnt/UNDP

    Posted on January 31, 2007 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, Open Source & Asia, Open Source IT business by Balthas

    Over 140 IT professionals of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from more than 27 countries gathered at Sukabumi, Indonesia for a nine-day Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) conference and training camp called “ASIA SOURCE II” from 22 to 30 January 2007. The Indonesian Minister for Research and Technology, Mr. Kusmayanto Kadiman showed […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, Open Source & Asia, Open Source IT business Tagged Asia, Asia Source, Asia Source 2, Asia Source II, BMZ, Capacity Building, commons-based peer production, FOSS, Free technology, Indonesia, it@foss, Kusmayanto Kadiman, open source, openness, Southeast Asia, Sukabumi, Tactical Tech, TTC, UNDP Leave a comment

    Knowledge Powers Development

    Posted on September 6, 2006 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, Open Source IT business by Balthas

    Knowledge Powers Development was the overarching theme of this year’s Eschborn dialoge, a discussion forum bringing together most of Germany’s development community. Balthas Seibold was a panellist of the workshop “WWW and knowledge – free access to knowledge as the basis for education and economic development”. His credo: New technologies and techniques such as “Free […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, Open Source IT business Tagged access, development, economic development, Education, EFTA, Eschborn dialogue, FOSS, gtz, knowledge, open source Leave a comment

    Free digital knowledge!

    Posted on June 15, 2006 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn by Balthas

    Free digital knowledge! claims the German Coalition for Action “Copyright for Education and Research”. These days, Germany is debating new legislation for copyright in the digital era – a proposed text passed the executive branch of government in March of this year. A nationwide coalition of research and educational organizations and personalities fights the proposal, […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn Tagged copyright, Education, Göttingen declaration, knowledge, knowledge commons, knowledge governance, OER, open innovation, open knowledge models, open learning, Open Licensing, research Leave a comment

    InWEnt yourself

    Posted on July 26, 2005 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, Open Source IT business, Work by Balthas

    After three exciting years as an Associate Expert at UNESCO, Balthas Seibold is going to take up new challenges in Germany: As of September, he will be working with InWEnt in Bonn, a German development agency in the field of capacity building and training. A senior project manager for programmes on “ICT for Development”, he […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, Open Source IT business, Work Tagged Capacity Building, development, ict4d, InWEnt, sustainable business development Leave a comment

    Contributing to the programme and budget of UNESCO of 2006-2007

    Posted on April 23, 2005 in Freedom to learn, Work by Balthas

    Balthas Seibold is proud to have contributed to the programme and budget of UNESCO of 2006-2007 as part of his assignment with UNESCO’s bureau of strategic planning – his main editing contributions are within the “communication and information” section, which deals with access to information and freedom of expression. You find the final document online […]

    Posted in Freedom to learn, Work Tagged access, BSP, Budget, communication, freedom of expression, information, programme, strategic planning, UNESCO Leave a comment

    Building a global knowledge commons – one wikipedia entry by one

    Posted on January 1, 2005 in Freedom to learn by Balthas

    The Internet is a knowledge agora or a knowledge commons – that has been a vision since the early days of  the web. But now, we see that some of the tools are getting mature, which are truely built by all for all for free. I am now getting more and more into wikipedia editing, […]

    Posted in Freedom to learn Tagged entry, knowledge, knowledge commons, Open Content, open directory, openness, wikipedia Leave a comment

    WSIS – Building Knowledge Societies – from Vision to Action

    Posted on November 14, 2003 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn by Balthas

    The UNESCO High-Level Symposium on the eve of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) brought together eminent political and intellectual world leaders to debate main implications and challenges for the construction of knowledge societies. The author of this blog was busy preparing the event and was quite pround, when a lineup of high-level […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn Tagged Geneva, John Gage, knowledge societies, Koïchiro Matsuura, Lawrence Lessig, Monkombu S. Swaminathan, Olusegun Obasanjo, WSIS, WSIS II Leave a comment

    Nouveau boulot UNESCO

    Posted on October 27, 2002 in Freedom to learn, Work by Balthas

    As of November 2002 I will be working at UNESCO (UNESCO) as an Associate Expert Quite exited … and looking forward to contributing to the work of the Bureau of Strategic Planning (online here) which is responsible for doing the two-year plan and the six year strategy of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural […]

    Posted in Freedom to learn, Work Tagged BSP, communication, culture, Education, planning, Science, UNESCO 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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