(Original article From Global Voices Advocacy) Ali Abdulemam, a leading Bahraini blogger and Global Voices Advocacy author, was arrested earlier today by the Bahraini authorities for allegedly spreading “false news” on BahrainOnline.org portal, one of the most popular pro-democracy outlets in Bahrain, amidst the worst sectarian crackdown by the government in years, and accusations...
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Philipp Schmidt (of the Peer 2 Peer University), today send to the Mozilla Open Education list, this announce for a new initiative, sponsored by Mozilla and with support of the MacArthur Foundation, that I am pleased to share Help turn the open Web into a rich learning environment and explore new possibilities for using...
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On last July, I got an email from Solana Larsen of GlobalVoicesOnline announcing a collaboration with a Danish Aid Organization: she was asking for someone interested to mentor a Danish or African blogging student participating on a course about using socialmedia for activism. The course is started on 7th, September and the mentor team...
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Following to this workshop in Brussels , the promoters of that meeting started this initiative addressed to influence EU Member States in adopting more openness and transparency: the idea is to write in a collaborative and collective way a manifesto to be presented, during the the EU ministerial conference on November 19-20, 2009 where...
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In quality of member of the OER Unesco community, I am very happy to know about this publication from UNESCO. The book brings together the background papers and reports from the first three years of activities in the community. From the press release: Education systems today face two major challenges: expanding thereach of education...
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The European Commissioner Reding wants European ecommerce take off: though 45% of European families got a broadband connection, there is stil much mistrust in buying online, mainly if the websites are based in foreign country. Last May for this reason they launched the portal eYou, the guide to your rights online. But there is...
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