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Wikimania 2008 was a blast. Here are just a few more bits of information that didn’t have a place in other posts. Image via Wikipedia Cool projects PediaPress is a project that allows you to turn Wikipedia pages into actual books. They have an open-source MediaWiki extension, so you can run this on your own […]
Image via Wikipedia What is Wikimedia Commons:  Central resource for Wikimedia Wiki – anyone can edit, be bold, etc. Media – it’s not text, it’s especially images Multilingual – all the languages inside the single wiki Free Content – all the files are availalbe under Free Licenses Community – lots of people who consider […]
Image by Harshad Sharma via Flickr Free Software Definition  The freedom to:  Use software for any purpose (libra, not gratis) Study and modify Distribute copies to others Collabroate and share your changes  Read more at the FSF page: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html  Free Software is really about Control. Communications technologies that we use have […]
Image by fataetoile /Cinzia via Flickr What is political participation: Â Collaborate for a common constructive objective Practice and defend freedom of speech Freely meet and engage with people and causes Discuss in order to obtain census Engage in non-economic initiatives Consume with responsibility Watch the watchers [and much more..] Â Voting from time to […]
Image by Capture Queen â„¢ via Flickr Wikipedia, 10million articles and lots of articles. Isn’t that enough, so why would we need other wiki’s?  Wikipedia is not a lot of heap of things – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NOT  So what do you do with these things?  Wikimedia has educational goal. There is another company Wikia, […]
Image via Wikipedia Wikinews is:  Easy A type of document you see every day Goal of NPOV and professionalism Balance through diversity The option to do news briefs  Writing your first articles First start with a synthesis article. You gather multiple independent sources and read them, then use this to write the story […]
Image by carf via Flickr Is content creation a problem at all? Countries in the emerging EMEA region have incredible growth and it’s just going to keep expanding.  Global content creation: Ton to 25% of the web is new each time we index. 60 billion emails are sent per day. Every day around 120.000 […]
— conferences, ideas
Image by skyfaller via Flickr Traditional approaches to solving global problems: Â Treaties and conventions (Kyoto) Intergovernmental conferences (World Summit on the Information Society) Global multilateral institutions (World bank) Â At the moment, traditional approaches to solving complex world problems, are incapable. Â We new solutions, new approaches and new forum to solve global challenges. […]
Image by H. Kosin via Flickr As a country of Egypt, more than 50% of people are young generation. As we think about wiki’s and ICT, we feel that we often don’t know if we can lead the technology or does the technology lead us. When we think about education, we don’t know if better […]
Image via Wikipedia Alexandria was once a place of a very ancient library – Ancient Alexandria Library. But it burned down, which was really a shame. In our minds, libraries are often places with lots of “dusty documents†which are not connected. But thanks to ICT we can go and build new libraries that are […]