Press release: Free Knowledge Institute promotes sharing of knowledge
SELF team Netherlands matures into foundation Amsterdam, January 17 2008 Yesterday a new foundation was launched aiming to stimulate a society in which technology, educational materials, and cultural and scientific works can be freely shared. The organisation receives the support … Continued
FKI Launch Party
The Free Knowledge Institute has been officially launched on Jan 16, 2008. We celebrated the new year together with several friend organisations: Internet Society Nederland, W3C Benelux, Gridforum.nl, Vereniging Open Domein, OpenDoc Society, SIDN, Vrijschrift, Oophaga and NLnet. The occasion … Continued
Dutch governmental plan for Open Standards: Netherlands in Open Connection
As you may have heard ([1], [2]), the Dutch government has recently attracted Microsoft’s anger by launching an actionplan to adopt open standards, and concretely OpenDocument Format by April 2008 in the national government. Open Standards will become mandatory and … Continued
First OLPC meeting in the Netherlands
Last Saturday December 15th we came together with a group of people from various backgrounds to discuss about the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project and setting up a grassroots chapter in the Netherlands. People from SELF and the Free … Continued
Open Source Yearbook 2007-2008 handed over to State secretary
The first copy of the Open Source Yearbook 2007-2008 is handed over by the editor Hans Sleurink to the Statesecretary of the Ministry of the Interior. The book covers the main activities of the year 2007 of Free Software in … Continued
Dutch Government Actionplan for ODF adoption
The Dutch governmental plan for the adoption of OpenDocument Format in national government by April 2008 has been discussed in parliament on Wednesday 12th of December. Despite, or maybe thanks to, Microsoft’s heavy lobby against the action plan, all major … Continued
Free Knowledge building Amsterdam is open!
In mid-2007 the Free Knowledge Institute moved into the former Volkskrant building (main Dutch newspaper) in Amsterdam. The building is self-organised by small groups and organisations from mainly the cultural and technology sector. An incredible positive energy goes through Amsterdam … Continued
Free as in free milk. Microsoft’s business practices in developing countries
A first draft of this article has been sitting for months in my hard disk. I decided to finish it after reading that Microsoft will offer its operating system and office suite for $3 per machine to developing countries. That … Continued
Freedom to Share Knowledge
(This is an article presented to the online Congress – Observatory for Cybersociety 2006, by Wouter Tebbens) Abstract Societies have been able to advance in great part due to the sharing of knowledge. While in current times the internet and … Continued