[FC-discuss] FC Reaching Out To Development Communities?

[Brian Rowe]

I strongly support this direction for FC.  One of the major challenges of
forming a chapter at Seattle University Law was the misconception that FC
was just about stopping RIAA.  Adding a develping nations focus area to our
agenda would do alot to express the philosophy behind FC and broaden our
support.  Pharmaceuticals, technology transfer, traditional knowldge, and
access to knowlege are all strong focus areas.  Partnering with the UAEM or
a Human Rights group on a campaing would be ideal.

-Brian

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Greg Grossmeier
<greg.grossmeier at gmail.com>wrote:

> Kevin Donovan wrote:
> > I'm working to bring OpenCourseWare to Georgetown (tips appreciated!)
> > and hopefully it will focus on the role of open educational resources to
> > help developing countries. I'd love to help out with any projects
> > regarding this dev+FC and imagine the folks at http://freedomforip.org/
> > would, as well.
>
> I would point you to what the University of Michigan is doing.  And not
> only because I am a part of the group working on it.
>
> The difference between what Michigan is doing and what others like MIT
> are doing is that Michigan's is sustainable WITHOUT gobs of money.
>
> At MIT, they have a full time staff that the profs send their materials
> to, if the staff can't clear copyright on a image or something they send
> a request out to someone in India to make a replacement.
>
> What Michigan is doing (just started this past year) is to elicit the
> help of students.  A student who is enrolled in the class will be the
> one vetting the material, asking the prof for citations, and even
> redrawing a flow diagram if need be.  They will be "paid" in class
> credits or a nominal fee (for the Business school students mainly, who,
> at least at Michigan, won't do anything without a monetary reward... but
> I digress).
>
> For more information see: http://open.umich.edu  and
> https://open.umich.edu/projects/oer.php in particular.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Greg
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