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    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

    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

    Just published: main uses of online content by users in developing countries

    Posted on January 8, 2004 in News on publications by Balthas

    Just published: An article by Balthas Seibold on main uses of online content by users in developing countries. The article is part of a scientific book on the quality of online communication. The German title is “Gute Seiten – schlechte Seiten. Qualität in der Onlinekommunikation”. The title of the article (which is available in German […]

    Posted in News on publications Tagged access, common good, cultural diversity, developing countries, didactics, digital content, intellectual property, IP, IPR, IPRs, knowledge, knowledge commons, language, multilingualism, online content, quality 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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