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    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

    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

    Just published: Research publication on attention factors of online news

    Posted on July 3, 2002 in News on publications by Balthas

    The book “Klick-Magnete”  from Balthas Seibold is just out as part of the research series “InternetResearch” of Reinhold Fischer publishing. It looks at the main factors, that make people klick on online news. For more attention, check http://www.klick-magnete.de (in German). [Update: The book is now available as a direct Download ]

    Posted in News on publications Tagged attention, attention factors, internet, news, online news, research Leave a comment

    New study out on main needs and expectations of internet users in Peru

    Posted on May 25, 2002 in Freedom to learn, News on publications by Balthas

    What are the  main needs, uses and expectations of internet users in Peru as an example of a developing country? This has been the main focus of a piece of research by Balthas Seibold, which resulted in two sets of publications: An article on the needs with the German title “Verfügbar, verständlich und relevant – […]

    Posted in Freedom to learn, News on publications Tagged e-learning, expectation, gtz, internet, needs, online content, Peru, uses Leave a comment

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      • Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed Archibald MacLeish, American poet and writer and author of the first sentence of the preamble of the Constitution of UNESCO
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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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