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    How to make money the open-source-way, but keep the commons alive? – Question 7 of 10 on ‚learning by sharing’

    Posted on March 16, 2015 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn by Balthas

    Open innovation – often based on open licensing and commons-approaches – is changing the business models of more and more businesses and social institutions. Before the advent of open innovation, innovation was kept within the boundaries of the firm (or research institution). In contrast, “Open innovation is a paradigm that assumes that firms can and […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn Tagged business model, capacities, Capacity Development, commons, commons-based peer production, competencies, connections, development, empowerment, find, freedom, freedom to learn, GIZ, hubs, human development, IT sector promotion, knowledge, knowledge commons, knowledge sharing, learning systems, motivation, motive, motives, open innovation, open source, ownership, P2P, P2PU, peer-to-peer, peer-to-peer learning, scaling up, self-governance, self-sustainability, sharing, skills, tacit knowledge, trust Leave a comment

    Where to find free knowledge for open innovation in development? – Question 6 of 10 on ‚learning by sharing’

    Posted on January 11, 2015 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn by Balthas

    In previous blog entries, I talked a lot about commons-based peer production and learning in areas crucial to development cooperation such as Energy, Health, Education etc. A key question then is where to find such “free knowledge” for open innovation and for peer-production in the different sectors of human development? I have collected an annotated compendium […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn Tagged capacities, Capacity Development, commons-based peer production, competencies, connections, development, empowerment, find, freedom, freedom to learn, GIZ, hubs, human development, IT sector promotion, knowledge, knowledge commons, knowledge sharing, learning systems, motivation, motive, motives, open innovation, ownership, P2P, P2PU, peer-to-peer, peer-to-peer learning, scaling up, self-governance, self-sustainability, sharing, skills, tacit knowledge, trust Leave a comment

    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 […]

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    What makes people share knowledge? – Question 2 of 10 on ‚learning by sharing’

    Posted on September 6, 2014 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn by Balthas

    Why do peers help peers to share and co-produce knowledge? Research suggests that there is a whole set of motivations that makes people share their knowledge, a mixture between altruistic and self-serving motives summed up in the following table: 14 Reasons Why Peers Help Peers to Learn: Why Do They Share Their Knowledge? (Table 1) […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn Tagged capacities, Capacity Development, commons-based peer production, competencies, connections, development, empowerment, freedom, freedom to learn, GIZ, human development, IT sector promotion, knowledge, knowledge commons, knowledge sharing, learning systems, motivation, motive, motives, open innovation, ownership, P2P, P2PU, peer-to-peer, peer-to-peer learning, scaling up, self-governance, self-sustainability, sharing, skills, tacit knowledge, trust Leave a comment

    What is commons-based peer learning? – Question 1 of 10 on ‚learning by sharing’

    Posted on September 2, 2014 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn by Balthas

    The Internet and with it the rise of social networks have enabled a radically innovative way of producing knowledge-related goods. Software can now be jointly written by thousands of developers as the operating system ‘Linux’ shows. The encyclopedia Wikipedia is updated by roughly 1.7 million contributors worldwide. Law professor Yochai Benkler has coined the term […]

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

    (How) can institutions deal with community-driven innovation? – EFF’ Carolina Rossini at the „Second global congress in Intellectual Property and the Public Interest“

    Posted on December 17, 2012 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn by Balthas

    The „second global congress in Intellectual Property and the Public Interest“ that I am attending right now, is full of interesting talks and takes on the „public interest“ side of copyright and development (for more see the extensive twitter coverage at #gcongress). But a highlight was certainly yesterday’s „session on IP, Innovation and Development“.

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn Tagged Africa, collective action, commons-based peer production, gcongress, innovation, innovation system, intellectual property, interoperability, IP, knowledge, knowledge governance, open innovation, open innovation systems, open knowledge models, openness, peer production, public interest, transfer of knowledge 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

    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

    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

    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

    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
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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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