newbie2
January 24th, 2008, 10:54 AM
Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales and Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth are backing a scheme to make publicly funded education materials freely available on the internet.
The backers of the Cape Town Open Education Declaration, announced on Tuesday, said the initiative is designed to echo the disruptive effect that open source had on the proprietary software world by opening up the development and distribution of educational materials.
The scheme is the result of a meeting of 30 open-education leaders in Cape Town, organised by the Open Society Institute and the Shuttleworth Foundation — the philanthropic organisation set up by Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39292324,00.htm
http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/read-the-declaration/
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The backers of the Cape Town Open Education Declaration, announced on Tuesday, said the initiative is designed to echo the disruptive effect that open source had on the proprietary software world by opening up the development and distribution of educational materials.
The scheme is the result of a meeting of 30 open-education leaders in Cape Town, organised by the Open Society Institute and the Shuttleworth Foundation — the philanthropic organisation set up by Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39292324,00.htm
http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/read-the-declaration/
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