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Sapporo's open and free side
iSummit 08 PosterOn July 29, free thinkers and open culture activists from around the world gathered on Hokkaidō island, Japan. What is so free and open about this venue, traditionally inhabited by the...
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Juba, the world's first open source city?
In the age of social networks, citizen media and digital collaboration, #OSJUBA seeks to apply the means and tools of creative open source culture to post-conflict development. #OSJUBA hosts their...
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South Sudan: The #OSJUBA event stresses early moves by net activists
Imagine a city torn by war, overwhelmed with daily influx of people from the countryside, becoming the capital of a country from one day to the next. And then picture crazy computer people ruffled...
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Valeria Betancourt on the Ecuador Disaster Map: "The number of volunteers...
Over the past days, hundreds of people have used the Ecuador Disaster Map to report needs, requests and offers of help through text messages, email or the web, contributing to a crowdsourced map of the...
View ArticleOpen software movements, open content, free culture: Where are the women?
In 2011 a study by GroupLens revealed the gender imbalance on Wikipedia, and there was an outpouring of articles in the global media about the notorious absence of women in the world’s largest virtual...
View ArticleAPC member Open Culture Foundation: “Digital rights and internet freedom are...
Open Culture Foundation is a non-profit organisation founded by members of Taiwan’s open source community. Its main goal is to support local communities in the use of open technologies to promote a...
View ArticleGreenNet: Tools for working from home
In these difficult and weird times, many people and organisations are adjusting to situations of remote working and working from home. Even for groups who are accustomed to online communications, the...
View ArticleEngageMedia's Pretty Good Podcast: Communications privacy – big tech vs open...
On this episode of Pretty Good Podcast, EngageMedia chats with Simon Harmon and Sam de Silva from the Loki Foundation, makers of the private messaging app Session, on the benefits of and challenges to...
View ArticleAPC member eQualitie introduces Baskerville, an open source project to reduce...
Baskerville is a machine operating on the Deflect network that protect sites from hounding, malicious bots. It’s also an open source project that, in time, will be able to reduce bad behaviour on your...
View ArticleGender, diversity and inclusion in open source communities
Code, even when it is open, is not neutral with respect to who contributes and for what. What happens to our contributions when we reveal our gender or sexuality? How can a project in which a...
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