ICTlogy

Top 10 Open Source Tools for eActivism

Dan Bashaw and Mike Gifford have put together a terrific list of Open Source tools that can be used by activists to spread the message and promote interaction by enewsletters, forums, blogs, wikis and epetitions.

(cleaning my bloglines’ clippings – I’d rather have it posted here than there as a clip)

[via Sierto]

I’ve read quite a bit about Sakai Project, a Managed Learning Environment with course management, assessment tools, portal functionality, etc.:

• A framework that builds on the recently ratified JSR 168 portlet standard and the OKI open service interface definitions to create a services-based, enterprise portal for tool delivery
• A re-factored set of educational software tools that blends the best of features from the participants’ disparate software (e.g., course management systems, assessment tools, workflow, etc.)
• A synchronization of the institutional clocks of these schools in developing, adopting and using a common set of open source software.

The technical barriers can now be overcome [thanks to:]

• Service Interface Definitions
• Standard Portal
• Tool Interaction Framework
• Localized User Interface

Let me suggest some further reading I’ve found of value:

• The Sakai Project
• The Sakai Project FAQs
• More Sakai details revealed and partner programme presented, an article by Wilbert Kraan at CETIS, info on Sakai.
• Same area, different goals; Sakai and the JISC Framework Programme, also by Wilbert Kraan, comparing Sakai and the JISC TFP. Very worth reading it.
• US universities consortium starts OKI and Portlet implementation project, by Wilbert Kraan too, when Sakai was presented as a project (old post but worth reading too).

I’d like to share something my colleague Marc L

An interesting project by Informal: “project supporting civil society partners in building their connectivity in license-exempt spectrum (802.11 wireless, also known as WiFi or WLAN) based on open technology and open knowledge.”

Its help might be focused to set up WiFi insfrasctructures in developping countries or civil society non-profit projects.

The Wireless Roadshow

(Via emergic.org

UNESCO Information for All Programme

The Information for All Programme provides a framework for international co-operation and international and regional partnerships. It supports the development of common strategies, methods and tools for building a just and free information society and for narrowing the gap between the information rich and the information poor.

UNESCO’s Information for All Programme provides a platform for international policy discussions and guidelines for action on:

• preservation of information and universal access to it
• participation of all in the emerging global information society
• ethical, legal and societal consequences of ICT developments

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Via Open Access News and Stephen Downes

The Campus for Peace will be at the Fair of the Forum Barcelona 2004 from 21st to 26th july, within the framework of the Joint action. The Fair for Cooperation and Conflict Prevention thematic period.

Caused by humans, nature or the invisible hand of the economy, the world faces hundreds of emergencies on a daily basis. NGOs are created to respond to these crises, but also to help prevent possible future ones. At The Fair, they will explain what they do, how they do it and how you can join them.

See you there! :)