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  • From: "Theodoros G. Karounos" <karounos@mail.ntua.gr>
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  • Subject: [Cc-gr] Fwd: [Communia-newsletter] Newsletter 7 March 2010
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From: COMMUNIA Press <press@communia-project.eu>
Date: Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 07:55
Subject: [Communia-newsletter] Newsletter 7 March 2010
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Here below please find some selected news related to COMMUNIA activities - The European Thematic Network on the Digital Public Domain (http://communia-project.eu/):


- 8th Communia Workshop: 19-20 April 2010, Istanbul (Turkey)
The 8th Communia Workshop -- Education and the Public Domain: The Emergence of a Shared Educational Commons -- will be held in Istanbul (Turkey) on Monday 19 and Tuesday 20 April 2010. Please SAVE the date!

Prof. James Boyle, renowned scholar of the public domain, will provide a keynote speech titled: "The Glorious Open Educational Revolution! (And why it hasn't happened yet)".

The workshop will convene leading experts, practitioners and all interested parties to explore success stories, best practices, current projects, legal obstacles and technical issues. With special attention, given that the workshop will be held on the Bosphorus, given to the Turkish and Middle-Eastern scenarios, vibrant areas where the open educational movement might soon score important successes.

The workshop is being organized by Ozyegin University (Turkey), Intellectual Property Institute (Slovenia), Creative Commons (USA) and the NEXA Center for Internet & Society (Italy).



- Governments are letting in the light

The February 25 printed edition of the UK weekly "The Economist" focused on managing public information, government transparency and citizen access to public data.

The report covers essentially the US landscape after the Obama election, since "America is in the lead on data access".

«These days democratic openness means more than that citizens can vote at regular intervals in free and fair elections. They also expect to have access to government data. ... "Government information is a form of infrastructure, no less important to our modern life than our roads, electrical grid or water systems," says Carl Malamud, the boss of a group called Public.Resource.Org that puts government data online.




- Panton Principles for Open Data in Science

"Science is based on building on, reusing and openly criticising the published body of scientific knowledge.
For science to effectively function, and for society to reap the full benefits from scientific endeavours, it is crucial that science data be made open."

This is the initial statement launching a new initiative, The Panton Principles, authored by Peter Murray-Rust, Cameron Neylon, Rufus Pollock and John Wilbanks at the Panton Arms on Panton Street in Cambridge, UK - with input from the Working Group on Open Data in Science.

More information: http://www.communia-project.eu/node/375



- Any bright ideas to use open government data?

«In several countries more official data are being issued in raw form so that anybody can use them. This forces bureaucrats and creative types to interact in new ways.» That's the central issue in a story about data and transparency in the digital age, published recently by "The Economist". The article introduces the data.gov.uk initiative launched last month: «the plan is to post a growing supply of facts that citizens or private institutions can sift through and play with as they choose.»

More information: http://www.communia-project.eu/node/374



- Updated news and other information on a variety issues related to the digital public domain are always available on our Website: http://communia-project.eu/



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