Since its debut in 2001, the free-access and free-content online encyclopedia Wikipedia has become a huge cultural force, filled with millions of articles in 250 different languages. Accessed some 500 million times per moth, and boasting over 26 million registered "citizen editor," Wikipedia would seem to be the ultimate in democratic knowledge-sharing. That is, until [...]
Afrocrowd is a new initiative which seeks to increase the number of people of African Descent who actively partake in the Wikimedia and free knowledge, culture and software movements. Above, Executive Director Alice Backer explains why diversity is so important in crowdsourcing initiatives in this advance look at our interview. Stay tuned until next week when [...]
[http://www.mukurtu.org] Kim Christen Withey, Mukurtu, Washington State University I’m going to talk about three best practices: ethical exchange, collaborative curation, and sustained support. I like alliterations obviously. These grow out of my role as project director of Mukurtu, which is a free and open source content management system built with the needs of indigenous communities in mind, but I think these are just [...]
