Cape Town, Day 2

More PR happening already today… All Africa is running a story in which the chairman of an SA publishers’ association says, “If (publishers) want to, we can’t stop them from participating, but we would discourage the Shuttleworth approach.” Computing SA says we’re trying to “transform education” I’ll add to this list throughout the day…

Cape Town, Day 1

Lots of great PR for the launch of the Cape Town Declaration on Open Education today! First off, lots of people carried the Press Release, including the The Sun Herald, Linux Magazine, Street Insider, EarthTimes, Yahoo!, and of course the Soros and Shuttleworth Foundations. Other coverage includes: Jimmy and Rich had an op-ed in the … Read more

Cape Town Declaration on Open Education

Today is the launch of the Cape Town Declaration on Open Education! There’s already been lots of commentary; I’ve blogged some of it before. (e.g., Stephen is among the critics.) I expect there will be lots more commentary now that the Declaration has actually launched. I’ll be doing my best to blog it all over … Read more