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"Open knowledge (or free knowledge) is knowledge that is free to use, reuse, and redistribute without legal, social, or technological restriction.[1] Open knowledge organizations and activists have proposed principles and methodologies related to the production and distribution of knowledge in an open manner." - Wikipedia
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Powerfully simple open access tools for a just and kind information age.
The Verifiable Credentials for Education Task Force will explore the use of Verifiable Credentials that represent education, employment, and achievement credentials. This will include pursuing data model recommendations that will demonstrate alignment with the VC model, usage guidelines, and best practices.
Now under development, the Academy will offer online and in-person courses to millions of health workers and others around the world.
A Steward of the Internet of Education, Web3, Blockchain, Digital Wallets, Crypto, DOAs, and Verifiable Credentials for Learning
What if we worked together to enable learner sovereignty, mobility and agency?
Alliance For Taxpayer Access
21 Dupont Circle, NW, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036 USThe Alliance for Taxpayer Access works to ensure that the published results of research funded with public dollars are made available to the American public, for free, online, as soon as possible.
Public Knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works.
Wikimedians of the Caribbean User Group
Latin America and the CaribbeanThe Wikimedians of the Caribbean Usergroup is a Wikimedia user group focused on the peoples of the Caribbean and the Caribbean Diaspora, bringing together cultures and languages, and also the communities with their diasporas.
Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda is a team of self-motivated individuals who improve articles on Wikimedia Foundation project websites and promote free and open access to knowledge locally. They also invested in projects that sensitize and train communities about Wikipedia.
The Turing Way
The Alan Turing Institute, Euston Road, London, UKCommunity-led guides for data science and open research
Social Science One
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USASocial Science One implements a new type of partnership between academic researchers and the private sector to advance the goals of social science in understanding and solving society’s greatest challenges.
In "Abierto al Público" we explore the use of open knowledge through data, code and other media.
A world where knowledge creates power for the many, not the few.
The Prototype Fund
BerlinDer Prototype Fund ist ein Förderprogramm des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), das von der Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland betreut und ausgewertet wird.
Document DEFINING OPEN IN OPEN DATA, OPEN CONTENT AND OPEN KNOWLEDGE
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