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Local Context, Global Commons
To build and expand a global knowledge-sharing community to learn from one another, focusing on capacity-building of Southern perspectives.
| Globe, by Kieran Lynam, 6 Mar 07 |
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Category: Culture
Project end date: 30/9/2008 (1330 days ago)
Creation date: 7/7/2007 15:57
Development stage: active
country: South Africa
Other countries: Brazil India
Main Language: English
Number of people involved: 14
The 18-month long project will be a South-South collaborative initiative between academics, researchers and activists. The project aims to enhance, add to, challenge and highlight key global commons' themes based on the experiences, priorities and realities of the developing world.
These themes will discussed and shared via 4 main channels:
A workshop at isummit 08:core team members will present a working debate about key themes that have been discovered and discussed throughout the year.
iCommons online community platform:the website development is now in phase two, with the objective of making it an active community resource and sounding-board for collaboration and education. Key themes of the Local Context, Global Commons project will be developed and debated on the website.
The iCommons Annual:the annual will be a collection of best-practices, stories from the commons, viewpoints around current themes and activities including the articles by project researchers that have been written as part of the project output.
iCommons Summit:the team will work towards organising the summit 08, from which a creative commons-licensed case study will be made available to the commons.
Open Cultural heritage platforms:this will be an investigation into the cultural flows that are catalysed when cultural heritage is freely shared using free, fully localisable software.
This project is funded by the Ford Foundation.
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