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NMC and UOC Release Call to Action for Open Education
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| Forty internationally known leaders in open
| education and technology met in Barcelona
| on October 19-20, 2009, at the NMC's first
| official European event, the Open EdTech
| Summit, cosponsored by the Open University
| of Catalunya and the New Media Consortium.
| Together, this extraordinary group
| considered the question of how to design
| educational institutions that fully embrace
| open education as means of being truly
| responsive to the needs of contemporary
| society and of today's students.
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http://www.nmc.org/news/nmc/7332
Recent:
UK Will Urge EC To Legalise Mashups, Format-Shifting, Content Sharing
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| It wants to âmove toward a pan-European
| approach for copyright exceptions in the
| digital ageâ, allowing more use of
| copyrighted works - just one of a range of
| measures that must be continental because
| âthe UK cannot act independentlyâ.
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| Lammy, speaking at the C&binet creative
| industries gathering on Tuesday, put his
| ambitions full-square in European
| policymakersâ court.
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http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-uk-will-urge-ec-to-legalise-mashups-format-shifting-content-sharing/
Adobe is Bad for Open Government
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| So next week, Adobe's having aconference
| here to tell Federal employees why they
| ought to be using "Adobe PDF, and AdobeÂ
| Flash technology" to make government more
| open. They've spent what seems to be
| millions of dollars wrapping buses in DC
| with Adobe marketing materials all designed
| to tell us how necessary Adobe products are
| to Obama's Open Government Initiative.
| They've even got a beautiful website set up
| to tout the government's use of Flash and
| PDF, and are holding a conference here next
| week to talk about how Government should use
| ubiquitous and secure technologies to make
| government more open and interactive.
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http://sunlightlabs.com/blog/2009/adobe-bad-open-government/
Call for Participation: Join the Open University Campaign!
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| The Open University Campaign recognizes that
| scholastic advancement occurs most readily
| in an environment of sharing, openness and
| collaboration. By providing a cross-index of
| leading universities, the project will add
| important comparative measurements to
| encourage increased academic openness. Our
| hope is that these resources will provide a
| platform from which openness activists can
| endeavor to improve the scholastic
| environment.
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http://freeculture.org/blog/2009/10/27/call-for-participation-join-the-open-university-campaign/
Data.gov.uk Newspaper
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| Weâve been thinking about the beta
| Data.gov.uk repository, and wanted to
| explore putting some of the information
| contained within into peopleâs hands in a
| form that is accessible, timely, and relevant.
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http://blog.newspaperclub.co.uk/2009/10/16/data-gov-uk-newspaper/
OpenStreetMapS.org now owned by OSMF
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| Thanks to some great work by Grant Slater and Andy
| Robinson all those people who mistake openstreetmap
| for openstreetmaps will now get directed to the
| right place.
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http://www.opengeodata.org/2009/10/16/openstreetmaps-org-now-owned-by-osmf/
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