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Internet redefining citizenship in 21st century - Civic Information API, e.g., Kenya Elections Hub - Sunlight Foundation programs for open govt data - MySociety collaboration among developers esp open source code

collaborative platform for developers working with civic innovation as a goal

The University of Kentucky Libraries is committed to launching this repository in addition to maintaining the Kentuckiana Digital Library, leasing space in other repositories such as ArtStore or helping with homegrown repositories important to specific colleges, e.g., MDID for College of Design and College of Fine Arts .... Question: how does the KY Learning Depot initiative fit here? or an international LOs community with a vibrant peer-review process like MERLOT?

Great blog by Cable Green - working for statewide CTC system in Washington

Open courses for direct use by independent learners or for re-mix/use by instructors - HP-sponsored Measuring Learning Consortium will use it also to research on students' understanding of STEM coursework (France, Hong Kong, Russia, South Africa and USA)

New research report from Isto Huvila of Sweden from user survey seeing to explain the different kinds of Wikipedia users and the quality of their contributions. References to other Wikipedia research are included and summarized to show the scholarly community's growing consensus about its reliability and validity. Refers also to new uses of Wikipedia, e.g., scholary journal requiring authors to post their summaries in Wikipedia.

at George Mason University's Center for History and New Media - funded by Alfred P Sloan Fndtn

U.S. National Archives now making high-resolution images of Ansel Adams' public-domain National Park Service photos public via Wikimedia Commons