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Since I'm Polish and I'm an Open Knowledge beginner, I was curious to know how is the concept approached in my language and this is what I found. Happy to share with other Polish-speakers.

This webpage contains a compilation of tools that improve privacy on the internet and have multiple applications.

Transcript attached. Snowden unable to attend in person.

I am posting this articles because I am interested in understanding where it is ok to draw the line. As a citizen, I endorse freedom of speech and information. As a father, I prefer a more secure and controlled environment for my children. I defend my right to choose for myself the information I want to get, but do I have the right to exclude someone's opinion if his or her points of view are not shared or do not stand for by the principles of the community?

Creo importante empezar por conocer un poco sobre el uso de Internet y penetración que tiene en algunos países para entender mejor algunos de los alcances y limitaciones del Open Access.

Un aporte que grafica el poder de la masa en la red.

How one young man sees the future of learning.

Repositorio digital de papers, artículos académicos, tesis y revistas de la Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, sede México (FLACSO)

Well, a Link to another Diigo List... Online UCF's List: Open Source Digital Content - This section is a collection of open online learning materials, categorized by disciplines. It covers resources such as Merlot, MIT Open Courseware, open textbooks,, Google Scholar, and more.

He elegido este video porque explica la influencia de las redes sociales en el mundo real, menciona lo impresionante que es interactuar con personas de distintas partes del mundo.

On my navigation searching for initiatives to see how Open Knowledge are making the difference on the Latin America society I found this... nowadays unfortunately on South America (and in other places as well) open knowledge initiative are not divulgated. Universities seem to be not interested about promoting these initiatives and few people know about them. I was amazed reading the text from Francisco J. García-Peñalvo (Open Knowledge. Challenges and Facts) and seeing that a lot of Universities on Europe and North America are promoting and working with open and free access to texts and online courses. It's incredible how people have the possibility of learning in a world that each day is more competitive. I really hope that this great news about Brazil helps more and more people to understand the impact and the changings on the educational process.

"CAN 3D printing be subversive?" asks a voice in the creepiest Internet video you'll be likely to watch this month. It's a trailer for Defcad.com, a search engine for 3D-printable designs for things "institutions and industries have an interest in keeping from us," including "medical devices, drugs, goods, guns."

I've read in Japanese paper that Ricoh and Canon started producing and announced 3D printers. The market has been expanding. It used such as a design of dental work etc. I don't think it's matter of that "open source" is winning or not. It's been and will continue to utilize, but how to use it could be changing. Maybe more creative way, people may need to be smarter about how to analyze to SELECT right source before analyze the source of data, etc..

Interesting article but he couldn't really develop a cogent argument in a op-ed. However, "open is the new green" could be true. That's why I want to learn about 'open' now so I can be ahead and stay ahead of what happens to 'open' when it gets reduced, like 'the environment' did to 'green'.

This is a weekly series highlighting Open Access Button users from around the world, discussing their work, and sharing their stories. If you would like to participate, please email oabutton@gmail.com Professor Ernesto Priego, part of the team at City University London's Library and Information Science Course, was thankfully able to chat with us after a...

This title is SO meaningful. People always ask what librarians do in this digital-Google-era. Librarians enable access, that is what they do! And in many ways. In educating people on open access, how to search databases, by searching databases for patrons, by searching the full-text, by contacting other libraries to get interlibrary loans, etc. etc. etc. The role of the librarian today is still very important and relevant. Technologies did not diminish the role of the librarians, technologies pushed it to very advanced, specialized and precise roles.

"It is an irony of the digital age that at a time when we are used to having easy access to seemingly endless information and knowledge, so much of it is disappearing into a digital black hole. For 450 years the concept of legal deposit has helped to preserve the nation's intellectual record.| There is this aspect of disappearing data as well.

See my bookmark post 'Academic citation practices ...' for some geeky stuff on the reference / citation issues.

Jacynthe, you are welcome, and Phillip, many thanks!

Google inicia en Madrid una serie de reuniones públicas en las que debatirá con expertos y ciudadanos los pormenores del derecho al olvido. El pasado mayo, el Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea (TJUE) dictaminó que los motores de búsqueda están obligados a retirar enlaces a información personal si esta perjudica la reputación de un usuario y ya no es relevante.

As we move toward an era of openness, where information is instant and infinite, it is not enough to simply have the tools and skills to access information. We must make meaning, not only through analysis and critical thinking, but also by engaging directly with knowledge, by taking it apart, putting it together, by sharing it, and by creating it.

It is an amazing presentation. Changing people attitude toward the value of knowledge and make them more involved in creating it is coming.