Category: Education
Sep
04
2009
DASH – Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard
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DASH (Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard) has just been released in Beta. The repository is the product of a university initiative to fully participate in the Open Access movement...
Aug
25
2009
Fundación Empresas Públicas de Medellín
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The Fundación Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM) is a non-profit organization that works to promote a variety of projects that aim at raising awareness about the need to preserve the...
Jul
01
2009
Internet Censorship Map
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The BBC is trying to create an interactive map that reflects internet censorship around the globe. They are currently asking for reader’s input to help fill the gaps.If you’d like...
Jun
29
2009
SALALM, 2009
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SALALM is the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials and dates back to 1956. Back then a group of librarians got together to try and figure out...
Jun
18
2009
Open Training Platform
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UNESCO’s Open Training Platform gathers thousands of existing, free training courses on a wide range of subjects. Currently it offers 3,426 training resources, covering 293 categories (including agriculture, education, languages,...
Jun
05
2009
“Margaret Wertheim: The beautiful math of coral (and crochet)”
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Curious where math, coral reef, education, saving the environment, and the domestic arts intersect? My friend Abby showed me the video below that explains this intersection brilliantly. Take a look!...
Jun
04
2009
Fundación ALAS
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ALAS (América Latina en Acción Solidaria) was founded in December 2006 as a medium to mobilize Latin American society in favor of young children. The organization’s leadership includes renown artists,...
Jan
31
2009
University of the People
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Shai Reshef, an Israeli entrepreneur is working on bringing education to the masses (as long as you understand English and have an internet connection). Reshef is working on establishing University...
Africa, Americas, Asia, Education, Latin America, Open Source, Technology, Tools, Uruguay, USA, World
OLPC – One Laptop per Child
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One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a non-profit organization trying to address the lack of resources many Third World Countries struggle with and how these affect education and hinder technological...