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    Peer-producing knowledge: a game-changer for development cooperation? – Question 5 of 10 on ‚learning by sharing’

    Posted on November 22, 2014 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn by Balthas

    Some critics argue that commons-based peer production and learning only apply in the digital, non-real world (“building websites”, “building online training material”). The concept, they say, is therefore less of interest to international and development cooperation, which focuses on non-digital environments and “hard” topics such as health, energy or agriculture. Jaime from Bolivia and John […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn Tagged Africa, agency, capacities, Capacity Development, commons-based peer production, competencies, connections, connectivism, development, empowerment, energypedia, freedom, freedom to learn, GIZ, global transformation, human development, ict@innovation, IT sector promotion, knowledge, knowledge commons, learning systems, OECD, open innovation, ownership, P2P, P2PU, peer-to-peer, peer-to-peer learning, scaling up, self-governance, self-sustainability, sharing, skills, tacit knowledge, trust, UNESCO 1 Comment

    What makes learning communities self-governed & fun? – Question 4 of 10 on ‚learning by sharing’

    Posted on October 1, 2014 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn by Balthas

    Frank Tilugulilwa is an IT trainer in Tanzania. He teaches local IT companies how to build services and revenues around so-called “Free and Open Source Software”. Such software can be copied and modified by every company and every individual client. Frank has written a training manual with over 80 other IT trainers and experts throughout […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn Tagged Africa, agency, capacities, Capacity Development, commons-based peer production, competencies, connections, connectivism, development, empowerment, energypedia, freedom, freedom to learn, GIZ, global transformation, human development, ict@innovation, IT sector promotion, knowledge, knowledge commons, learning systems, OECD, open innovation, ownership, P2P, P2PU, peer-to-peer, peer-to-peer learning, scaling up, self-governance, self-sustainability, sharing, skills, tacit knowledge, trust, UNESCO Leave a comment

    How to build learning communities, that work peer-to-peer? – Question 3 of 10 on ‚learning by sharing’

    Posted on September 22, 2014 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn by Balthas

    In the field of online sharing and learning, the “Massive Open Online Course” (“MOOC”) has received a lot of attention. Many are enthusiastic about what elite universities such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Harvard are piloting. The two schools have offered joint online courses that have attracted well over 100,000 […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn Tagged Africa, agency, capacities, Capacity Development, commons-based peer production, competencies, connections, connectivism, development, empowerment, energypedia, freedom, freedom to learn, GIZ, global transformation, human development, ict@innovation, IT sector promotion, knowledge, knowledge commons, learning systems, OECD, open innovation, ownership, P2P, P2PU, peer-to-peer, peer-to-peer learning, scaling up, self-governance, self-sustainability, sharing, skills, tacit knowledge, trust, UNESCO Leave a comment

    Let’s talk about “Learning by Sharing”

    Posted on July 2, 2014 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, News on publications, Open Source & Africa by Balthas

    Today, I invite you to join the conversation on an article, which I just published on the issue of “Learning by sharing – how global communities cultivate skills and capacity through peer-production of knowledge“. I posit in this paper, that commons-based peer learning offers a trigger to enhance skills, competencies, connections, capacities, and the agency […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, News on publications, Open Source & Africa Tagged Africa, agency, capacities, Capacity Development, commons-based peer production, competencies, connections, connectivism, development, empowerment, energypedia, freedom, freedom to learn, GIZ, global transformation, human development, ict@innovation, IT sector promotion, knowledge, knowledge commons, learning systems, OECD, open innovation, ownership, P2P, P2PU, peer-to-peer, peer-to-peer learning, scaling up, self-governance, self-sustainability, sharing, skills, tacit knowledge, trust, UNESCO 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

    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

    ITU promotes Linux Certification in Arab countries – links to Africa’s ict@innovation

    Posted on March 13, 2012 in Freedom to innovate, Open Source & Africa, Open Source IT business by Balthas

    Last week, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)  announced a new LPI certification and training project throughout the 22 countries in the League of Arab States. This is certainly good news for ICT capacity building in general and even more interesting for the community of ict@innovation, which has been building training capacities around Linux Administration in Africa […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Open Source & Africa, Open Source IT business Tagged Capacity Building, certification, ict@innovation, ITU, ITU academy, Linux, Linux Administration, Linux System Administration, LPI, training Leave a comment

    German Government funds German-African research partnerships to build ICT study courses in Africa – BMBF releases call for proposals with a funding of up to €150,000 per course and year

    Posted on March 8, 2012 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn by Balthas

    What the call is about: The German Government via its Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) released a call to fund research partnerships between German Research institutions and partners in Subsaharan Africa. One of the main goals is to build  African ICT study courses and to fund exploratory measures / pilot measures in  “Applied […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn Tagged Africa, BMBF, call, FOSS, funding, ICT, ICT study courses, ict@innovation, master Leave a comment

    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

    UNCTAD Information Economy Report 2011 mentions ict@innovation

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

    UNCTAD just released their Information Economy Report 2011 focusing on the link between ICTs and private sector development. It also mentions our programm ict@innovation with FOSSFA (see section on “developing human resources” page 59). Check the: Information Economy Report 2011 – ICTs as an Enabler for Private Sector Development More Info on the site here:

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Open Source & Africa, Open Source IT business Tagged Capacity Building, FOSS, ict@innovation, private sector, private sector development, private sector promotion, UNCTAD Leave a comment

    Talk on open innovation & book launch of “Free your IT-business in Africa” at Africa’s FOSS gathering “Idlelo 4”

    Posted on May 21, 2010 in Freedom to innovate, Open Source & Africa, Open Source IT business by Balthas

    This biennium’s Idlelo (four) conference on Open Source and the Digital Commons in Africa organized by FOSSFA had the theme of “Development with ownership” and took place in Accra, Ghana from 17.04-21.04. Balthas Seibold was there to launch with FOSSFA a training book resulting of the joint regional capacity building programme “ict@innovation – creating business […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Open Source & Africa, Open Source IT business Tagged Africa, Capacity Building, FOSSFA, ict@innovation, idlelo, Idlelo 4, open innovation, open source 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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