Heather Ford
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Kup Kup Brooches., originally uploaded by Kup, Kup Land. I’m spending my Heritage Day doing what I love best: checking out the online craft scene and making things. What a beautiful way to start the day with this inspiration from Kup Kup!
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A couple of us have been working on trying to ‘map’ the ‘move towards openness’. This is my attempt – covering the different levels of openness in communication input – process – output. I’m sad not to be at the openeverything event in Cape Town that Mark and Philipp are organising – looks like it’s…
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The iSummit is done and dusted. Beautiful event. Starting to look like a festival. Now for some rest. Pic: by Kenji
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A friend who lives in New York sent me this awesome article by William MacNamara on the regeneration of Jozi inner city in the Financial Times. It made me realise how important it is to have outsiders saying such great, positive, optimistic things about living here. South Africans certainly aren’t going to say it!
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David Bollier has a great article on onthecommons.org that talks about the differences between the ‘commons’ and ‘market’ sectors and their inter-relationship. ‘The commons sanctions idiosyncratic experimentation and creativity that is often too risky and costly for most markets to undertake. This is one of the key ways in which communities of social trust out-perform…
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I just blogged about the Global Voices Summit and the importance of community for bloggers on Techleader. What an awesome event. Pic: by nehavish on Flickr, CC BY-NC
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This awesome video produced by David Sasaki introduces the Rising Voices project of Global Voices which ‘aims to help bring new voices from new communities and speaking new languages to the global conversation by providing resources and funding to local groups reaching out to underrepresented communities.’
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I just wrote this as my letter in the iCommons Lab Report (to subscribe go here): Dear friends, Last week, the iCommons team had a short workshop session to practice the ‘Checklist on openness’ that we’re hoping to work with participants to develop at this year’s iSummit. We practiced by using an equally slippery concept…
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I know that there are probably a lot of requests for help going around, but I received a message from IkamvaYouth based in Khayelitsha that , as a result of the xenophobic violence, they have between 400 and 900 people in their hall and they don’t have enough food to feed them. Says Susan Godlonton,…
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There was no cake, no champagne – not even a speech. And it’s only now that I’ve been able to take a breath, that I can say this about my decision to hand over the public leadership of Creative Commons South Africa to Dave Duarte. In 2004, I came back to South Africa after an…
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