Knowledge and Technology for a Free Knowledge Society
The Free Knowledge Institute is proud to welcome two new members to its Board: Joe Corneli and Marco Fioretti. Both have been active community members within the free knowledge – free technology community. Both bring in new energy, large networks, … Continued
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
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
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
In 2009 the first edition of the Free Culture Forum was held in Barcelona. The event gathered around 200 representatives
The other day I met with two filmmakers in Spain. They are planning to make a documentary about Free Knowledge in general. They would like to show to the general public the aspects and culture within the various communities, ranging … Continued
We have signed the Stop Software Patents .eu petition to support their view on serious restrains current software patent legislations cause. “The patent system is misused to restrain competition for the economical benefit of a few but fails to promote … Continued
Free Knowledge, Free Technology Education for a free information society SELF International Conference 2008 The FKFT Conference 2008 was the first international event that focused on the production and sharing of free educational and training materials about Free Software.
The Free Knowledge & Free Technology Conference (FKFT) is the first international event that focuses on the production and sharing of free educational and training materials about Free Software. It aims to: present the SELF Platform, a community platform for … Continued
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