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Open Source vs. Copyright vs. Creative Commons vs. Open Access vs. Copyleft
The free Google Trends tool offers many possibilities. Let's compare the related concepts that concern us all at iCommons. What do we see when facing off "open source," "copyright," "Creative Commons," "open access" and "copyleft"? Googlers go for "open source" followed by "copyright." The remaining three concepts are relatively unknown. In other words, the Open Access movement... [more]
Serbia: New Instructions and Law Regulations on Online Privacy
Serbia’s Republic Agency for Telecommunications (RATEL) brought a new Internet and communications monitoring law on Internet traffic interception and redirection. There is strong disapproval from the Serbian Internet community.This document of instructions defines technical requirements for authorised monitoring of some specific telecommunications and provides a list of duties... [more]
Commoner Profile: 10 Questions for Afrikaans Wikipedia's Ian Gilfillan
We hear of the thousands of people from around the world who contribute to Wikipedia on a regular basis ' the number is so huge that it is easy to think of 'them' as a mass of faceless knowledge bearers who so meticulously edit on topics such as 'enzyme kinetics' and 'convex regular polytopes.'Well, this month we singled out one of 'them' ' Ian Gilfillan, a Cape Town local who,... [more]
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CD Insert - Creative Commons License Agreements
rabrant · archive (ZIP) · Dec 05th, 2007 · 18 votesThis archive contains 6 Creative Commons license agreement cd-inserts along with the template file I used. The template file is a GIMP XCF file. The finished... [more]
The iSummit 2008 in Sapporo: presentation by CC Japan
Daniela Faris · presentation (PPT) · Jan 28th, 2008 · 18 votesAt the iSummit 2008 planning workshop held in Johannesburg on 17 and 18 January, Yuko Noguchi presented 'The iSummit 2008 in Sapporo', which outlined the... [more]
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Access to Knowledge Conference (A2K3), Geneva 8 -10 Sept 2008
Switzerland · Sep 08th to Sep 10th · no comments madePlease save the date for the third annual Access to Knowledge Conference
(A2K3) on September 8-10, 2008.
In a departure from precedent, please note... [more]
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The Public Voice &OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Future of the Internet Economy
InternationalEngage the community in the public policy discussion of the OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Future of the Internet Economy & other OECD related meetings.
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Stories Stones and Stations,Future Generations,Stories Of The Railway,
York (Canada)Using GPS technology these Stories Stones and Stations can be accessed using Google maps and yahoo geocities .
Adding universal templates to locate time and place content. [more]
In this iCommons podcast episode the staff talk about how they came to work at iCommons, what they have achieved so far, and what their vision is for the future is.
