events
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I’m on the team at the iSchool organizing the upcoming InfoCamp. It all started when we were sitting in a meeting last semester talking about doing an event in the Spring. Someone mentioned InfoCamp. I emailed the organisers and Kristen and the team from InfoCamp Seattle welcomed us with open arms. It’s been a great
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Last week, I was in Bangalore for ‘WikiWars: Critical Point of View‘, a workshop organised by the Centre for Internet and Society (India) and the Institute of Network Cultures (Netherlands). As our invitation letter outlined, ‘WikiWars is not a traditional conference. It has attracted not only people from across disciplines but also people with different
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It’s exactly a week since GeekRetreat Stanford Valley and I’m sitting in my freezing cold Berkeley apartment collecting my thoughts and the countless pages of notes that I wrote on the plane back to the US on Monday night. (Moving around the world at such an alarming rate is such wonderful medicine for perspective.) After
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We’re gearing up for the next GeekRetreat from 15-17 January in Stanford, Western Cape. I can’t wait! It’s going to be awesome 🙂 And, best thing is that we have 11/12 scholarships for people from non-profits/social entrepreneurship ventures related to education and the Internet! More below: If you’re working on or have an idea for
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As part of the new GeekRetreat at Stanford in the Western Cape, the fabulously talented Jackie Scala (Scala Designs) volunteered her time to develop a new shiny home for the GeekRetreat. Guy Taylor (Telamenta) took Jackie’s design and built a Drupal implementation around it (helped by Noto Modungwa and Skip). We’re slowly starting to find
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Photo by Joi Ito on Flickr licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license I just wrote this post for Rising Voices and thought I’d share it here too. In Paulo Coelho’s latest book, ‘The Witch of Portobello‘, the character Nabil Alaihi says: “What is a teacher? I’ll tell you: it isn’t someone who teaches something,
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We had such great interest from our iHeritage seminar attendees on a digital copyright course, that we’ve decided to hold an intensive full-day course in Joburg, Durban and Cape Town. The course is aimed at: “Information professionals working in museums, archives, libraries; web developers, designers and creators working in the heritage sector, historians interested in
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Gil Hockman has started a rad project called ‘the joburg‘ – an open calendar for events happening in Johannesburg. It’s a total community-driven, non-commercial project – factors which I think will make it grow exponentially in the future. According to Gil, The way it works is a follows: Google have a very cunning online setup
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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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And how to rebuild. Juan Enriquez (2008) Pop!Tech Pop!Cast from PopTech on Vimeo.
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