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It’s that time of the year again. Creative Commons and Wikipedia are working towards their fundraising goals for the coming year and asking users to donate to support the cause. I spent the last five years working on building a global perspective on the commons and will probably spend the next working out what I
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I’m a geek who loves words, so what better way to contribute on Mandela Day than by contributing to Wikipedia? Wikipedia is written almost entirely by volunteers from around the world. It is one of the most popular sites in South Africa – offered free and without advertising to anyone with an Internet connection. Whatever
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From now until and August 15, 2009, Institute for the Future, Sun Microsystems, and Boing Boing invite young people from around the world, age 17 and under, to join us as we explore the frontiers of free and open innovation. The Digital Open: An Innovation Expo for Global Youth seeks projects in a variety of
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‘In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack, director Josh Raskin has woven
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My dear friend, Rike Sitas: passionate-creative-urban-genius has just sent me some of the raw footage from the documentary that her Durban-based NGO, “dala” (verb to make / create in isiZulu) is producing. The documentary is about the recent decision by the Durban municipality to hand over land on which a fresh produce market has been
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Great news from Tectonic about the Independent Electoral Commission’s website now being open to non-IE users. Congrats to everyone who made this happen. The hundreds of emails, blog posts and complaints to the South African Human Rights Commission has done the trick. I love the comment by Friedel Wolff from translate.org.za below: Writing a feature on
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This morning I woke up to a story on Global Voices about two-year old Nigel Mutemagau who was abducted with his parents three months ago and taken to Zimbabwe’s most notorious prison, Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison where he was held in solitary confinement with his mother and beaten to get his mother to confess. I
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I need help with a new project that iHeritage has just launched. We’re going to be running a small pilot to put video, photographs, audio and text relating to Johannesburg online in the public domain, and then run a remix competition to create new cultural products from the raw materials. If anyone can help design
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I’m really serious about these ones. 1. Eat more icecream 2. Take a day off every week 3. Be silly I’ll be reviewing my progress in quarterly installments. Thank you, Juhie Batia from Global Voices, for the inspiration.
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CC has just celebrated its 6th birthday in San Francisco. I’m sad I couldn’t make it. Jetlag had me asleep at 6pm. But this photo of Lessig at the party makes up for it. Pic: Happy 6th Birthday Creative Commons! by felicity redwell CC BY NC SA
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