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Creative Commons - you can participate in the creation of a globally shared cultural heritage

daniel — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:14:29 -0400

This video released by Creative Commons explains how you can contribute to a global cultural heritage and at the same time exercise copyrights to have a say on how your contributions live on when taken up by others.

Is science out of control?

stevenmansour — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:44:44 -0400

Dr. David Levy musing about whether scientists should have a say in how their research gets used:

TECHNOLOGY OUT OF CONTROL

What do you think?

Should scientists have a say in how their research gets used in society and the world at large?
Will the rapid pace of technological advance bring about cataclysmic events for the human race?
Finally, are robots going to annihilate us? ;)

Journal of Visualized experiments - a new way to teach biological subjects

daniel — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:25:22 -0400

This note is meant to make you aware of the Journal of Visualized Experiments - a peer reviewed online journal devoted to the publication of biological research in a freely accessible video format.

WAYS Partner news: A video documentary by The Mother-Child Health International Research Network

daniel — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:24:02 -0400

The Mother-Child Health International Research Network have recently released a video documentary about a project of their's which helps pre-term infants in Columbia to significantly increase their chances of survival. Take a look!

Science TV via WAYS

daniel — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:58:03 -0400

WAYS has long been offering tools for social interaction between young scientists - every registered user can blog, announce science events like conferences, or comment on what others have written. Now we have started a collaboration with the German science news channel Wisskomm, which will bring you science news in video format on a weekly basis. For the moment, the service is in German only, but an English version is being planned. To get an idea on how this will look like, take a look below:

Contest: H2O Short Films

daniel — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:32:32 -0400

Winners will be presented at the International "Water and Film" Events in Istanbul (18 to 21 March 2009, cf.
announcement).

Submission deadline: Aug 15, 2008. Details at
http://www.expozaragoza2008.es/WaterTribune/Watercinema/seccion=... .

Video contest for students - “MindMashup: The Value of Information Sharing.”

daniel — Fri, 09 May 2008 03:55:54 -0400

[seen at
http://www.openstudents.org/2008/04/30/sparc-announces-video-con... ]

Videos on any topic related to information sharing will be accepted, as long as they are made freely available on the web. Deadline: November 30, 2008.

More info via www.sparkyawards.org .

CFA- Summer Training "Basics of Participatory Video", Kyrgyzstan, 2-8 June 2008

daniel — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:42:00 -0400

seen on Central-Eurasia-L:

Taalim-Forum Public Foundation is organizing Training for Trainers
(ToT) "Basics of Participatory Video" within the framework of
"Place-based education: communities outreach" project supported by the
Christensen Fund (USA). The project is aimed at the strengthening of
capacity of the local communities in comprehensive studying of their
own place of living.

Instructor: Sara Asadullah (Insight, France/UK)

Language: English, Russian. Translation will be provided.

The interactive training is aimed at introducing PV techniques to
future facilitators of local communities' projects. In the result of
the training, participants would be able:
- to obtain basic knowledge and skills to work with video equipment;
- to conduct editing and montage of video footage on a basic level;
- to teach local communities how to use the video equipment (e.g. to
identify and analyze important issues within their communities);
- to find new opportunities for using PV in their professional and
research activities.

Participatory Video (PV) skills can be used as an effective tool in
conducting field research, collection and preservation of traditional
knowledge, for educational purposes and also in drawing attention to
topical issues of the environment and culture.

Faculties, researchers and specialists from Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and
Tajikistan are welcome to apply. Experience in the mass media and TV
journalism will be considered as a preference.

Deadline for application: April 25, 2008
Terms of competition: Only selected applicants will be invited to an
interview. Participation expenses will be covered by the project.

The application form can be downloaded from www.hecap.jet.kg
Filled application form and CV should be sent to: dalimova [at] gmail.com

Mission of Taalim-Forum Public Foundation (former HECAP): Support and
improvement of humanities education in Central Asia.
Mission of the Christensen Fund: Backing the stewards of cultural and
biological diversity.
Insight is UK-France based company working on developing and applying
PV methodology and conducting PV-based projects around the world.

Taalim-Forum Foundation
122/2 Orozbekova St.
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan 720040
Tel. (+996-312) 900 835
Fax. (+996-312) 627 618
E-mail: hecap [at] jet.kg

Stimulating video documentary on Wikipedia, knowledge sharing, truth and the role of experts

daniel — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:47:04 -0400

The role of expert knowledge is central to a video documentary on Wikipedia's way of knowledge sharing. It features the opinions of the co-founders of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, as well as of some other major Web 2.0 players and critics, including the authors Tim O’Reilly and Andrew Keen as well as Charles Leadbeater (a former advisor to Tony Blair), Bob McHenry (former editor of the Encyclopedia Britannica) and Ndesanjo Macha, one of the first to blog in an African language and one of the major contributors to the Swahili Wikipedia (which, by the way, is about to reach the 7,000 article milestone within the next few days).

The views of these people, particularly on truth and its representation in encyclopedias, contrast quite significantly but their aggregation provides food for thought on how the future of knowledge sharing might look like. The explicitly scientific perspective was mainly missing but between the lines, it became clear that large interactively collaborative (ubuntu) projects like this might also play an increasingly important role in academic research and tertiary education.

One possible direction is a continuation and expansion of Wikipedia until saturation, other options include branching and the development of more academically inclined variants like Scholarpedia, the Encyclopedias of Earth and Cosmos as well as Citizendium (not mentioned in the documentary but in a previous post here), and there are certainly many other possible developments.

Make films, not war!

daniel — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 08:41:48 -0500

Ever wondered what films can contribute to an era of global thinking and local action? Here comes an ambitious but well-structured initiative in this direction:

May 10, 2008 has been renamed into Pangea Day, as "sites in Cairo, Dharamsala, Kigali, London, New York City, Ramallah, Rio de Janeiro, and Tel Aviv will be videoconferenced live to produce a 4-hour program of powerful films, visionary speakers, and uplifting music."
In doing so, "Pangea Day taps the power of film to strengthen tolerance and compassion while uniting millions of people to build a better future."

Details via
http://www.pangeaday.org/ .