EC Foresight Workshop on Open Higher Education & Research
Last week (6-7 June 2013) the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (JRC-IPTS), convened 20 experts to develop Open Education visions for Higher Education in 2030 and a roadmap to get to the more desirable … Continued
An accidental millionaire by BitCoin
About cryptocurrencies and the evolution to a global social means of exchange Bitcoin Bonanza: Cyprus Crisis Boosts Digital Dollars (CNBC) and other news items would suggest the Cypriotic bank crisis has helped spur the BitCoin value. “If I was looking … Continued
Can we liberate the market through commons governance?
In the Barcelona-based Escola dels Commons we study the commons and right now we are discussing about the market, how current markets work and how they could work, if redefined under commons logic. Monday 17th December we hold a public … Continued
Five years of FKI!
1. Our lustrum: adopting the strategy Exactly five years ago, on 12 December 2007, the Free Knowledge Institute was officially founded. It has been a joyous and fruitful journey and after the first 5 years of the FKI the time … Continued
Wolfgang Hoeschele and the Economics of Abundance
With the Escuela de los Commons (E2C) in Barcelona we have the pleasure and honour to invite prof. Wolfgang Hoeschele (Bios: Shareable, Truman University, P2P-F) for a session about Abundance Economics and the Economy of the Commons. Hoeschele teaches and … Continued
The European Parliament kills ACTA
Advocates of freedom of information and citizen’s rights achieved an overwhelming victory when the European Parliament rejected the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) on July 4th. The vote against ACTA by a vast majority of the European Parliament (478 to 39) … Continued
Down with ACTA! The EU must protect our commons
The Free Knowledge Institute is among the signatories of the following joint press release by 53 European and International organisations to invite Members of European Parliament to reject ACTA, and beyond, engage in a positive reform of copyright and patents. … Continued
FKI invites to comment on its Strategy for 2012 onwards
Earlier today, the Free Knowledge Institute has made public its Strategy documents that should guide the foundation into the coming years. With their publication comes an invitation to everyone interested in building a new society along the lines of free … Continued
TradePub corrects offering of FTA course books
As I explained in this blog a while ago, we were not happy with the way TradePub was offering our course books on their website. Fortunately their team responded very quickly to our demands and corrected the situation. Let me … Continued
New strategies and ideas
(by Hinde) The FKI has been working on a full-blown new strategy for a while now. Soon we will be able to publish our envisaged mission and goals, together with a framework of domains and actions. At this point, we … Continued