[Icommons] Free Knowledge, Free Technology Conference, 15-17 July 2008, Barcelona Spain

Heather Ford heather at icommons.org
Mon Feb 18 21:40:15 EST 2008


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>                Free Knowledge, Free Technology
>            Education for a free information society
>               SELF International Conference 2008
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>                  CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
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> 	    First International Conference
>          	  July 15-17, 2008
>                    Barcelona, Spain
>                     http://fkft.eu
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> The Free Knowledge, Free Technology Conference (FKFT) is the first
> international event which will centre on the production and sharing of
> educational and training materials in the field of Free Software and
> Open Standards. Free Software, as opposed to proprietary software, can
> be copied, studied, modified and redistributed without restrictions.
> Moreover, open standards, and the capacity they offer for exchanging
> knowledge and sharing information, have become essential because they
> allow business and administration processes to function in a more
> flexible, transparent and cost-efficient way. The expansion of free
> software has brought together a continually growing community of
> developers.
>
> With the objective of promoting Free Software and the sharing of free
> knowledge, the FKFT 2008 Conference will bring together hundreds of
> people from different continents including government representatives,
> school and university teachers, IT companies, publishers, and  
> NGO's. By
> gathering together people from all these groups, we aim to stimulate
> both present and future collaboration between diverse disciplines,
> sectors and countries, through the medium of free software programs  
> and
> the sharing of successful experiences related to free software and  
> free
> technologies.
>
> SELF (http://selfproject.eu) is an international project financed  
> by the
> European Commission which has developed a platform to encourage the
> creative cooperation and the sharing of educational materials and
> continuous training, paying special attention to free software and  
> open
> standards. Inspired by the Wikipedia model, the SELF platform is  
> open to
> the contributions of all those who would like to bring their knowledge
> to it, and share this knowledge without restrictions.
>
> The Free Knowledge Institute and the SELF Consortium (Internet Society
> Netherlands, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Free Software Foundation
> Europe, Goteburg University, Internet Society Bulgaria, Fundacion Via
> Libre and Tata Institute for Fundamental Research) will collaborate to
> organise the content of the conference and to build strong  
> relationships
> between attendees. The conference partners recognise the vital
> importance of the collaborative creation and sharing of free  
> educational
> and training materials on Free Software and Open Standards. Our
> conference host is the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.
>
> The programme consists of an elegant mix between keynote speakers,  
> panel
> discussions and parallel tracks on topics such as Social  
> implications of
> Free Knowledge and Free Technologies, Technological aspects of
> e-learning, Learning Standards, Free Software in society, Legal issues
> of Free Knowledge, Free Knowledge in public bodies, Introducing the  
> SELF
> Platform, and many more. Invited speakers are, amongst others,  
> Lawrence
> Lessig (pending confirmation), Karel de Vriendt (EU/IDABC), Pekka
> Himanen (pending confirmation). During the social evening the Award
> Ceremony of the "Free Knowledge, Free Technology" Open Documentary
> Contest will take place.
>
> Registration is open since January 2008. The deadline for early
> registration rates is April 1, 2008. Please see
> http://www.ftfk.org/index.php/fkft/2008/schedConf/registration
>
> All events take place in the centre of Barcelona, the Fira de  
> Barcelona,
> unless otherwise noted. The FKFT 2008 organisers recommend to make
> reservations for hotels and flights as early as possible as July is
> high-season.
>
> The preliminary programme will be announced shortly on http://fkft.eu
>
> General Co-Chairs:
>     David Megias (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
>     Wouter Tebbens (Free Knowledge Institute)
>
> Program Co-Chairs:
>     David Jacovkis (Free Knowledge Institute, Universitat Oberta de
>     Catalunya)
>     Dragoslava Pefeva (Internet Society Bulgaria)
>
> Conference information: http://fkft.eu/index.php/fkft/2008
> Organising team: http://fkft.eu/index.php/fkft/2008/about/ 
> organizingTeam
> For Papers: http://fkft.eu/index.php/fkft/2008/about/submissions
> For Registration:
> http://www.ftfk.org/index.php/fkft/2008/schedConf/registration
> For Sponsorship: dmegias at uoc.edu, wouter at freeknowledge.eu
>
> Contact Addresses:
>
> David Megias, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
> http://uoc.edu
> dmegias at uoc.edu
> Tel: (+34) 933 263 735
> Fax: (+34) 933 568 822
>
> Wouter Tebbens, Free Knowledge Institute
> http://FreeKnowledge.eu
> wouter at freeknowledge.eu
> Tel: (+31) 20 8910 319
> Fax: (+31) 877 844 107
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Heather Ford
iCommons Executive Director
http://icommons.org

The iCommons Summit: 29 July - 1 August 2008, Sapporo, Japan

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