The Internet Archive’s collection of text, audio, moving images and web information is growing at an incredible rate. Check out their open source film archive, their Prelinger movie archives, and their live music archive. Read about why the archive is building an ‘internet library’ and about their campaign in collaboration with the Electronic Frontier Foundation […]

I bumped into Professor Christo Doherty at an exhibition called ‘Terminal Extentions’ by the Wits Masters-level Interactive Media Design students last week. Christo runs this exciting, young programme at the Wits School of Arts which aims to ‘develop an analytical understanding of either interactive media or 3D animation as aesthetic and commercial forms of communication’. […]

The International Herald Tribune has a pretty comprehensive article on the growth of the iCommons movement, with a focus on the recent Germany launch.

I spoke to Justin Nurse from Laugh it off promotions the other day. LIO is fighting a decision made last year in favour of South African Breweries (SAB) against their ‘Black Labour White Guilt’ T-shirt campaign. Nurse believes that LIO should be able to freely express their criticism of the SAB brand for profiting off […]

Today marks the 28th anniversary of the uprising which saw apartheid police open fire on pupils protesting against the use of Afrikaans as the medium of instruction in schools. Today, South African young people face new challenges - not least of which is the need for open access to education and knowledge. Especially when you […]

The future of the digital commons looks bright if the Creative Commons Summit at the Wizards of os conference is anything to go by. Joined by project leads from Brazil, France, Finland and Germany, I spoke about the relevance of Creative Commons in Africa and the importance of Africans being engaged in this global community […]

I will be talking about the Creative Commons South Africa project at the Wizards of OS conference in Berlin next week (10-12 June). Along with South Africa, Creative Commons project leads from Austria, Brazil, Croatia and France will talk about their experiences and the early adopters of cc licenses at the Creative Commons Summit […]

KEWL (Knowledge Environment for Web-based Learning) is an open source e-learning platform that is being re-developed to run on a free software platform rather than on Microsoft servers. According to project director, Derek Keats, ‘KEWL Next Generation will be developed into the most advanced learning management system in the world, using largely talent that exists […]