The Knowledge Society – a Freedom Centred Perspective
The core team behind the Free Knowledge Institute publishes an article about the Knowledge Society from a freedom centred perspective. This week it is presented by David Jacovkis at the Free Culture Research Conference in Berlin. There has been much … Continued
(by Hinde) On June 1st, 2010, Karin Spaink gave an excellent speech during an expert meet on e-books. She is urging the publishing industry to learn from all the mistakes the music industry made. E-books need to be protected against … Continued
The openSE project: opening up Software Engineering education
Software Engineering (SE) is a fast changing subject that often poses a moving target both for learners and educators. In order to tackle this problem, an open approach to SE education can provide continuous feedback between educational institutions and “the … Continued
The Free Culture Forum is not the Gratis Culture Forum
Michel Bauwens writes in the P2P blog about the talk “A Radical Critique of Free Culture” that Geert Lovink presented at re:publica 2010. Many of the participants in the Free Culture Forum that have seen Lovink’s talk are surprised, to … Continued
About Free, Libre and Open
There have been and still are intense flamewars about the use of the terms free, libre and open in the context of software, knowledge and licensing. As the Free Software movement was the first in defining the main concepts (of … Continued
First Free Culture Forum in Barcelona
In 2009 the first edition of the Free Culture Forum was held in Barcelona. The event gathered around 200 representatives
Smiers: Adieu Copyright
Joost Smiers, Professor of Political Science and Research Fellow in the Research Group Arts & Economics at the Utrecht School of the Arts, the Netherlands, together with his colleague Marieke van Schijndel recently published an essay arguing for the abolition … Continued
PodCast about the FTA
The Antenna Tux radio station from Germany is broadcasting an interview about the Free Technology Academy with me on 22 September 2009. That will be dubbed in german, but the originally English interview is published here in OGG and here … Continued
Free Culture Forum, Barcelona 29 Oct – 1 Nov
The International Forum on free culture and knowledge will take place from October 29 to November 1st 2009 in Barcelona. This event is a unique opportunity to bring together under the same roof the main organizations and active voices in … Continued
From Free Software to Free Knowledge workshop at TNI
A while ago David Jacovkis and myself did a workshop for and at the Trans National Institute (TNI) in Amsterdam. They are in the process of migrating to Free Software, as is completely logical for an NGO that advocates equality, … Continued