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    Open Everything Berlin! Taking part in a global conversation about the art, science and spirit of ‘open’

    Posted on December 6, 2008 in Freedom to innovate, Open Source IT business by Balthas

    Open Everything is a global conversation about the art, science and spirit of ‘open’. It gathers people using openness to create and improve software, education, media, philanthropy, architecture, neighbourhoods, workplaces and the society we live in: everything. It’s about thinking, doing and being open. Balthas Seibold took part in this global conversation at the 6th […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Open Source IT business Tagged Capacity Building, development cooperation, FOSS, open source, openness 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

    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
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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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